Editor’s note: The Slow-Cooked Sentence is devoting itself to song this week as part of its Joy+Ride, a month-long quest that involves planting, polishing and singing.
“Casi05” courtesy of INDEED.
Thirty songs plus half
a day all for me equals
sweet, sweet sanity.
a day all for me equals
sweet, sweet sanity.
The time’s been spent, but I can still share my songs. My favorite is “Half Acre,” I can listen to The Kinks all day long, and you’ve got to check out the lyrics to “A Chat With Your Mother.”
- I’ll Fly Away, Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch
- Julia, The Beatles
- Mother Nature’s Son, The Beatles
- Half Acre, Hem
- Your Mother Should Know, The Beatles
- Ghost Town/Poem For Eva, Bill Frisell
- God Bless The Child, Billie Holiday
- Sunspots, Bob Mould
- I’ll Come Running, Brian Eno
- All Mama’s Children, Carl Perkins
- What A Wonderful World, With L Dan Zanes & Friends
- Leave It Like It Is, David Wilcox
- Do You Realize??, Flaming Lips
- White Winter Hymnal, Fleet Foxes
- After Midnight, J.J. Cale
- Crazy Mama, J.J. Cale
- Boom Boom, John Lee Hooker
- Hot Potatoes, The Kinks
- Have A Cuppa Tea, The Kinks
- Bonjour, Bonjour, L’Autobus A Vapeur
- Our House, Madness
- You Are My Sunshine, Norman Blake
- That Was Your Mother, Paul Simon
- Mother and Child Reunion, Paul Simon
- A Chat with Your Mother, Sally Rogers & Howie Bursen
- Innà mér syngur vitleysingur, Sigur Ros
- I Wish, Stevie Wonder
- Isn’t She Lovely, Stevie Wonder
- What Child Is This, Vince Guaraldi
- I Took My Mom To the Prom, The Ziggens
Have you been singing out loud?