Music Meme

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your winter. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs.

My husband sent me this from another blog he was reading and I figured I'd toss it out there since gardening is a bit slow right now.

1. Love and Happiness by Al Green --Classic. I love when the band starts up. I always want to rewind back to that part. It does that here and there throughout the song. Never boring. I've heard of a lot of new music this year but somehow the old always grips me the best.

2. Hometown Boy by Over the Rhine--I think people I know are getting tired of me talking about Over the Rhine. Lately I've had the Ohio album in the car and its kind of like discovering it all over again. Since I can't find this song I'll include a link to another from that album.

3. Even in the Darkness by Rue Royale--Started out as a Christian folk band in the Chicago area. Now is a more general folk band based in England. I love her voice, its truly beautiful, but its fun to hear more of him on more recent songs like 'Blame.'

4. Tables and Chairs by Andrew Bird--a one-man band of violin, whistling, and guitar. Quirky lyrics. From Chicago. I'm not sure I could resist. I love how he plays all the parts by using pedals to loop each part, creating layer upon layer.

5. Farewell to the Fairground by White Lies--even though it was released in 2009 this is so '80s retro. My Dad is probably right, you do get more sentimental towards music similar to what you heard in your childhood.

6. Braille by Regina Spektor--I did like Spektor before this year, but I don't think it was until over Christmas that I noticed how gutsy and talented she is. She has such a strong sense of herself and what she's writing.

7. A Glass Can Only Spill What it Contains by mewithoutYou--I'm folky. You turn the guitars up too loud and I'm fine, but it doesn't really touch me inside. mewithoutYou is one of the exceptions to this rule (although their most recent album was pretty tame compared to their first few). It has the hippy Jesus People freegan thing going, oh, and some punk. Okay. I like it.

8. Beats 4 U by My Morning Jacket--It just gets in my head. No other reason.

9. Blue Ridge Mountains by Fleet Foxes--Another 'this group reminds me to the incredibly harmonized soft rock my dad listened to when I was a kid.' Just a good song.

10. On the Edge by The Clogs--more traditional music, reminds me of celtic.

Okay, I took 10. It's hard to break out of the decimal system.