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Music

Sister Songs: Welcome to England & Wild Way

June 11, 2015 by Leta

Welcome to England

[youtube=http://youtu.be/WEStUwZE9Q8]

Wild Way

[youtube=http://youtu.be/vENJBhOQZCk]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: music, piano, piano pop, tori amos

Christmas Day Music – December 25, 2015 – What Child, Nowell #toriamos #nohell

December 25, 2014 by Leta

My husband used to think that the hymn said, “No hell! No hell! No hell!”

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: christmas, music, no hell, tori amos

Christmas Music – December 23, 2014 – I Could Clean Up For Christmas #aimeemann #music

December 23, 2014 by Leta

I’m not sure if she’s talking about her house or not. 😛 Because I’m talking about my house.

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: aimee mann, clean up for christmas

Christmas Music – December 21 – In Excelsis Deo #toriamos #holidays

December 22, 2014 by Leta

And the mountains in reply

Echo, echo, echo!

http://youtu.be/3ugAUsnxs5E

Filed Under: Christmas, Music

Christmas Songs – Dec 21, 2014 – The Holly King passes the torch…

December 21, 2014 by Leta

A nice fanvideo set to my favorite Tori Amos Christmas song. I have no idea what the movie is, though. Anyone know?

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: christmas, fanvideo, midwinter, music, snowy evening, tori amos, winter carol

Christmas Songs – Dec 20, 2014 – Holly Jolly Concert #sufjan #cheers #music

December 20, 2014 by Leta

I’m pretty sure that being drunk at a Sufjan Steven’s Christmas concert would be pretty freaking awesome and go a long way toward giving almost anyone some Christmas cheer. It’s just that ridiculous. And it’s probably best to be buzzed while listening/watching, too. I dunno. I just like it.

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: christmas, christmas songs, holiday music, holly jolly christmas, music, sufjan stevens

Christmas Music – Dec 19, 2014 – Happy Holidays #lovespirals #music

December 19, 2014 by Leta

I was listening to this album (Ornamentals) for the first time the other day and kept thinking this was a Madonna song from the 1990s or something. I was kinda tripped out to see it was by Lovespirals and not Madonna at all. My brain has a hard time accepting that. Listen and tell me if you hear 90s Madonna, too. Or am I insane? Wait…don’t answer that! 😉

 

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: christmas, holiday, lovespirals, madonna, music, ornamental

Christmas Music – Dec 18, 2014 – City Sidewalks, Busy Sidewalks #vandaveer #music

December 18, 2014 by Leta

When I was a kid, Silver Bells was my favorite song on my parents’ single Christmas LP. It was a mix of artists and long gone, so I no longer know who sang that version. I’ve never been able to locate it. Most versions of Silver Bells actually bother me because they aren’t the right one. But this version by Vandaveer is the closest to the old one I’ve ever found and it makes me happy.

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: silver bells, vandaveer

Christmas Music – Dec 16, 2014 – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas #toriamos #love

December 17, 2014 by Leta

My favorite version of this song ever. Shocking, I know.

http://youtu.be/nwX62HL2vKo

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: have yourself a merry little christmas, tori amos

Christmas Music – December 15, 2014 – Such Was My Need On A Chronic Christmas Eve #sineadoconor #music

December 15, 2014 by Leta

One of those songs that’s probably only a Christmas song to me. I have a few like that. Like Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” and EBTG’s “Come On Home”.

Oh I wanna make something

So lovely for you

‘Cus I promised that’s what I’d do for you

With the bible I stole

I know you forgave my soul

Because such was my need on a chronic Christmas Eve

And I think we’re agreed that it should have been free

And you sang to me

They dress the wounds of my poor people

As though they’re nothing

Saying “peace, peace”

When there’s no peace

ETA: Apparently, I am not the only one who sees this as a Christmas song. “Christmas can serve as a hollow, ironic and painful reminder for many that beyond the season, the give and take of our society has often not served them with the justice of enough.

In this vein I love the song ‘Something Beautiful’ by Sinead O’Connor picking up the themes of Jeremiah at Christmas. Talk about one cantankerous prophet quoting another!”

 

 

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: christmas, christmas music, holiday songs, sinead o'connor, something beautiful, such was my need on a chronic christmas eve

Christmas Music – Dec 14, 2014 – This Is How I See You #music

December 14, 2014 by Leta

This is one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful winter songs ever.

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: christmas, holiday music, merry christmas my love, music, sarah mclachlan

Christmas Music – Dec 13, 2014 – Winter Song #music

December 13, 2014 by Leta

Is love alive?

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: Ingrid Michaelson, inside my arms, sara bareilles

Playlist for Smoky Mountain Dreams | 3 Chicks After Dark | Bonus Material #spotify #music

December 12, 2014 by Leta

“Over the years, I’ve discovered that a major key to reaching the varying levels of emotional intensity I hope to reach in a novel is to have a really strong soundtrack to listen to as I write. This was no different for Smoky Mountain Dreams.The following Spotify list has the eight most important songs I listened to when writing Smoky Mountain Dreams.”

Head on over to listen to the playlist if’n ya are curious!

Guest Post: Leta Blake for Smoky Mountain Dreams | 3 Chicks After Dark.

Sometimes holding on means letting go Christopher Ryder and Jesse Birch are two men hanging on to the past. While Christopher has let go of his failure as a country singer in Nashville, he's still trying to please his narrow-minded, non-accepting family. His beloved Gran loves him the way he is, but Christopher feels painfully invisible to everyone else. He’s happy enough performing at the Smoky Mountain Dreams theme park in Tennessee, but even when Christopher is center stage he aches for someone to see the real him. There's more than meets the eye when it comes to bisexual Jesse. He's raising two kids and fighting with family after a tragic accident took his children’s mother. There's no room in his life for dating, his kids are his priority, and he doesn't want more than an occasional hook-up. He sure as hell doesn't want to fall hard for his favorite local singer, but when Christopher walks into his jewelry studio, Jesse hears a new song in his heart.
Sometimes holding on means letting go
Christopher Ryder and Jesse Birch are two men hanging on to the past. While Christopher has let go of his failure as a country singer in Nashville, he’s still trying to please his narrow-minded, non-accepting family. His beloved Gran loves him the way he is, but Christopher feels painfully invisible to everyone else. He’s happy enough performing at the Smoky Mountain Dreams theme park in Tennessee, but even when Christopher is center stage he aches for someone to see the real him.
There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to bisexual Jesse. He’s raising two kids and fighting with family after a tragic accident took his children’s mother. There’s no room in his life for dating, his kids are his priority, and he doesn’t want more than an occasional hook-up. He sure as hell doesn’t want to fall hard for his favorite local singer, but when Christopher walks into his jewelry studio, Jesse hears a new song in his heart.

Filed Under: books, Music

Christmas Music – December 12, 2014 – Above Thy Dark & Dreamless #overtherhine #music

December 12, 2014 by Leta

Always love her bluesy way.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: christmas music, holiday music, holiday songs, music, over the rhine, xmas music

Christmas Music – Dec 10, 2014 – God In Three Persons #music #sufjanstevens

December 10, 2014 by Leta

Perfect in power.

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: best version, holy holy holy, lord god almighty, sufjan stevens

Christmas Music – Dec 9, 2014 – Westward Leading, Still Proceeding #music #toriamos

December 9, 2014 by Leta

What we need is solar power.

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: christmas, midwinter graces, the best christmas album ever, tori amos

Christmas Music – Dec 8, 2014 – Love Came Down At Christmas #music #shawncolvin

December 8, 2014 by Leta

Lovely love oh love divine.

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: 1990s, christmas music, holiday music, shawn colvin

Christmas Music – Dec 7, 2014 – Dolly FOREVER aka Hard Candy Christmas #music #dollyparton

December 7, 2014 by Leta

Because:

a) Dolly

b) DOLLY

c) this song always makes me crazy happy/nostalgic

 

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: christmas music, dolly, hard candy christmas, holiday music

Christmas Music – Dec 6, 2014 – O Christmas Tree (*gasp*) #rosecousins #music

December 6, 2014 by Leta

Funtimes between musician friends.


Here’s a fun non-Christmas one by these same set of folks

Filed Under: Christmas, Music Tagged With: broken wings, christmas music, holiday music, o christmas tree, rose cousins, xmas

Christmas Music – Dec 1, 2014 – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs #music #xmas

December 1, 2014 by Leta

A few years ago I posted a holiday song every day of December. I decided to try it again this year but might cop
out after a few days. We’ll see how it goes.

First up!

Filed Under: Christmas, Music

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