Living With Music: A Playlist by Rebecca Walker, The New York Times
On Wednesdays, this blog is the delivery vehicle for “Living With Music,” a playlist of songs from a writer or some other kind of book-world personage.
This week: Rebecca Walker, whose most recent book, “Baby Love,” is available in paperback.
Comments:
Joni and Van, huh? Love it. I'll have check some of your others out that I'm less familiar with. Check out "A Minor Incident" by Badly Drawn Boy. Just a sad beautiful song about a parent contemplating suicide, and wishing the best for her son."If you were the woman, and I was the man" is also another great one. I love the use of the conditional throughout as John Prine and Margo Timmins (of Cowboy Junkies) trade verses. I've always thought of it as a feminist love song.
My recent favorite songs are by The Wailin' Jennys called "One Voice" and "Arlington." I have not listened to all their songs as I found "One Voice" on a mix called "Women of the World" put out by Putumayo which is an amazing cd as well.
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