But it’s okay if you listen to them in the morning, or at night, or even on Monday. This is more of the stuff that I’ve intended to post for a while, and will perhaps make a nice change from the somewhat depressing previous two posts.
Janet sent me the link to this live performance of Simon and Garfunkel’s “For Emily Whenever I May Find Her.” I hadn’t heard it for many years, and really had more or less forgotten it. I liked it a lot when I was listening to Simon & Garfunkel in high school. In college I was part of a crowd that did not consider them cool, and pretty much stopped listening to them. This is really a very beautiful song. I don’t like it quite as much as Janet does, and I think the reason is that some of the imagery doesn’t describe anything very specific to me: I know that organdy and crinoline refer to types of cloth, but that’s all. I really like the empty streets and the cathedral bells. Goodness gracious, what a voice Art Garfunkel had!
This next one is a group called the Be Good Tanyas performing a song called “The Littlest Bird,” which I assume one of them wrote, though I don’t know that for sure. Pentimento posted a link to it in a comment some months ago, and I thought it was enchanting, so much so that I got the album on which it appears, Blue Horse. This ended up being my favorite song on the album, which I found somewhat uneven, mainly because I’m not real crazy about several of the songs. But this one is just about guaranteed to make you smile. If you don’t smile at first, listen to it again. And as a bonus, the video is charming and evocative. The gals are from British Columbia, so I don’t know why the video is set in New Orleans, but it certainly captures the vibe of the place. Listen to it on good speakers or headphones, if you can; the audio is of high quality, and there are a lot of nice things going on that you might miss on computer speakers.
Light On Dark Water 
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