My day be like ooh ahh

Not sure if I posted Sufjan Stevens before but I really love his music. His music is just incredibly simple with easy beats and light guitar. He works in strings and piano and just blends it to form these delicate songs that just kind of melt in your ears (not in your hands?).

Anyway the song that I've been listening to recently is "Casimir Pulaski Day." It is so sad, definitely up there with "Tears In Heaven." The song is about a relationship between a guy and a girl who is dying of cancer. The lyrics are incredibly straight forward and its set to a simple guitar piece. Its really excellent-enjoy.

"Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens from Illinois

-S

One Reason

There have been a lot of great songs that I've found perusing Grammy Performances (Did you see Elton John and Eminem do "Stan"? It's amazing I don't care what anyone says...but that is another post for another time.)

This song though was played at the Grammy's but it is not the version I am writing about. The song in question is "Gimme One Reason" by Tracy Chapman performed with Eric Clapton (who may or may not be God) The combination of Chapman's smokey vocals and saucy lyrics in combo with Clapton's guitar is dripping with excellence. Pure. Unadulterated. Excellence.

The song only gets better from the beginning starting with an intro from Chapman and moving in to the vocals which ends up being a duet of two of the most powerful forces in music and the whole song is topped off with Clapton more or less solo-ing throughout the song. Cheers!

"Gimme One Reason" by Tracy Chapman featuring Eric Clapton (Live)

-S