I want to take a minute to send my love to the City of Boston. As well as to send my love to all victims of violence everywhere. Unfortunately, the capacity of human beings to inflict pain, death and destruction on our fellows is not new. I do think the best response when things like this occur is for each of us to work toward making small movements away from fear and anger and toward love.
Today's subtitle is a reference to one of Boston's many great musical exports.
Music heals, so let's dive in...
First up, with a h/t to The End Men, we discovered that Ear to the Ground has and has had a theme song.
Today in the pre-shuffle, we heard another great song from R.E.M.'s Document album which has been in the shuffle, since we found a copy at our local Goodwill (on Half-Price Saturday)!
We also heard two more songs from The Essential George Gershwin which we picked up on that same shopping excursion. This time, a couple of classics performed by Tony Bennett and Ethel Waters respectively.
Throw in another track from the awesome new The Imperial Rooster record which they are giving away on Bandcamp. (Throw them some seed if you are able).
We also heard a track from the Skeletons in the Piano album, Please Don't Die which we reviewed last week.
We close out the pre-shuffle with a song by a band from South Alabama called The Bear which we dig a whole bunch.
Now for the Shuffle - after the JUMP
