Category: music
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Marc Cohn @ The City Winery, 2012 Jan 26
{This has apparently been sitting in my Drafts folder for four years. Oops. I never finished it, so it ends abruptly. -=-BLG} It’s been a while (a real long while) since I’ve gotten to a Marc Cohn show, but this one was worth it. He played the City Winery, which is an odd hybrid of…
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Marc Cohn and guests at the City Winery : 2013 Feb 14
I’ve sort of blown the deadline on my 30 Days of Marc Cohn, but I can at least offer up this playlist. 🙂 “From the Station” “Ghost Train” “Perfect Love” “The Letter” with Jon Leventhal “29 Ways” “Listening to Levon” with Dave Mansfield “Healing Hands” with Rebecca Pidgeon “Witness” with Rebecca Pidgeon “Silver Thunderbird” “Walking…
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Rest for the Weary (30 Days of Marc Cohn – Day 19)
“Rest for the Weary” The Rainy Season One of the things I like about Marc Cohn is that his songs aren’t all about finding, having, and losing the girl. Every album includes very personal songs that nonetheless seem to be universal. I’m also struck by how well his songs, without generally being all that upbeat,…
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“Girl of Mysterious Sorrow” (30 Days of Marc Cohn — Day 17)
“Girl of Mysterious Sorrow” Burning the Daze I’ll make a confession. I did not get, at first, that this song was about graveside remembrance. In fact I felt quite clever to figure it out. Listening to it again, it now seems pretty obvious and I was just dense the first time around. There is cleverness…
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Strangers in a Car (30 Days of Marc Cohn — Day 16)
“Strangers in a Car” Marc Cohn Now we reach the final song of the “car trilogy” (after “Listening to Levon” and “Silver Thunderbird“). It certainly wasn’t planned to make automobiles the pivot point of my 30-day exploration of Marc Cohn, but it’s worked out nicely. “Listening to Levon” is Cohn thinking back about a relationship about…
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Listening to Levon (30 Days of Marc Cohn — Day 14)
“Listening to Levon” Join the Parade This was the pop song leading off Join the Parade, the first studio album from Marc Cohn in a long time — and the first after he was shot. This gave it some emotional oomph beyond the song. It’s a warm nostalgic tune which probably helped inspire (or at least…
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Walk Through the World (30 Days of Marc Cohn — Day 13)
“Walk Through the World” The Rainy Season This song holds a special place for me. Marc Cohn was a transformative album for me — heck, I even considered attending grad school at the University of Tennessee just so I could be “Walking in Memphis” — and so I looked forward with eager anticipation to Cohn’s sophomore…
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Review: Tron Uprising (Soundtrack)
Tron: Uprising (soundtrack) Joseph Trapanese This is not Daft Punk. This is not Daft Punk’s soundtrack for Tron: Legacy. Neither of those are bad things. I really enjoyed Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack and thought it evoked the movie’s themes flawlessly. But Uprising is its own show and should have its own music. The needle to be threaded…
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True Companion (30 Days of Marc Cohn — Day 12)
“True Companion” Marc Cohn I’ll admit it — I was very on the fence about including this song. It’s always struck me as somewhat mushy and it so clearly is “the wedding song”. It seemed a bit trite to add it to my list, especially in the year when I got married. But then I…
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Perfect Love (30 Days of Marc Cohn — Day 10)
“Perfect Love” Marc Cohn This is another gentle song. It’s incredibly an incredibly sweet tale. I have to wonder if a real couple served as a model and if so, who? It’s not his parents (since we know Marc’s mom died when he was young) and it’s not him (because he would have been 5…