Hear Ye On Spotify: what rock nyc is listening to 10-30-13
good days for Lee Ann
1. Lord I Hope This Day Is Good – Lee Ann Womack – A showstopper at Carnegie Hall on Monday, this is off her 2000 country hit album I Hope You dance and in under three minutes it yearns with faith and hope – A
2. Something About Knowing – Maria Taylor – The most joyful and adult love song of the year, it is a track comfortable in its own skin – A
3. Let’s Get Back To You And Me – Alan Jackson – All the energy and fun you could hope for and a keen fiddle – B+
4. You Already Know – Arcade Fire – An ecstatic disco dance – A-
5. Hilary $wank – Joey Ba$$ – Ebonics as a fluid body language – B+
6. Lord I Hope This Day is Good – Don Williams – The original along with a really great guitar break – A
7. Man In Need – Richard Thompson – Abject sexism as sign of life – A
8. New – Paul McCartney – Of all the McCartney songs around, this is the most McCartneyish on the new album – A
9. Wild And Blue – John Anderson – This was his first hit and it swings not rocks but not happily, there is a strange tinge of sorrow.
10. What Death Leaves Behind – Los Campesinos – Two for two off the new album, this is a thriller that harkens back to a more straightforward Welsh post punkdom than their last two – A-
