Best Songs of 2013 – #5
In the Year of Country Women, the biggest splash was made by Kacey Musgraves, whose refreshing millennial outlook landed her on Ellen and landed her debut album, Same Trailer Different Park, on both the country and mainstream charts.
Musgraves strikes me as a grown-up version of Taylor Swift (and I don’t mean that as a slight to Swift, whose best work evokes the adolescent experience beautifully). Her songs are simple, memorable and deceptively deep.
I’ve run out of meaningful things to say about Ron Sexsmith, after posting dozens of his songs on the blog over the years.
Truth be told, I probably ran out of meaningful things to say about him five songs ago.
He’s awesome; I love his work; if you don’t have any of his albums you should remedy that as soon as possible. That about sums it up.
I’m not really sure what to say about this one. I own this song because it is on the Amores Perros soundtrack, which features a couple of other Control Machete songs I really like.
This song, not so much. Not due to the language barrier but because it’s a little too hard-edged for a man of my refined tastes.
As for the movie, if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. Written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, it’s a visceral, emotional roller coaster ride set in Mexico City.
Best Songs of 2013 – #6
On most of Paul McCartney’s latest album, New, he sounds more like a Beatle than a 71-year-old. Today’s track is the one powerful exception.
‘Early Days’ is about just that — the time when McCarney and John Lennon first met and embarked on their extraordinary careers together.
Best Songs of 2013 – #7
It’s like clockwork. John Mayer always wins me over with a melancholy finger-picked ballad.
On his most recent album, Paradise Valley, it was ‘Dear Marie,’ a simple blues track sung to a woman he knew as a kid (assuming the song is autobiographical).
Meet Me In Montauk 