A Long, Long Overdue Review/Shameless Promotion/Blog Post
February 28, 2009
Yes, I know, please pick yourself back up off the ground – this is indeed a brand new blog post; and yes, I am aware that it has been almost six months. What can I tell you? As it turns out, PhD life is not all downhill from admission – it is freaking uphill all the dang way. So, while I would OBVIOUSLY love to blog to you all the days long, my brain has been rather preoccupied by two thoughts:
- Must do reading.
- Don’t want to do anymore f***ing reading.
So now you’re caught up.
In other, far more exciting news, my friend Caroline finally released a CD last year. And, lest you stop reading here because you think everyone who blogs about a friend’s music is clearly biased, you can read Adam’s glowing review of the CD (from months ago) and rest assured that he has never met Caroline and was as suspicious as you are about my forcing him to listen to a friend’s muisc.
That said, you ought to leave this page right now (don’t worry, I won’t delete the blog while you’re gone) and go get her music from iTunes.
“A Me Shaped Hole,” the name of her CD, is a mix of Americana and folk music, in my humble no-nothing-serious-about-music-classification opinion. I met Caroline almost six years ago at the Ghost Ranch where we were both working, and I still remember the first time she pulled out her guitar and started singing – it was amazing. I only wish she could have put every song she’s ever sung on this CD. Fortunately for all of us, she has chosen 12 songs that she wrote herself, so we can all afford the CD. Perhaps on her next CD she’ll record all the rest of the songs that have ever come out of her mouth – one can hope.
At any rate, Caroline sent us a copy of her CD back in November and it is still in our car, in the CD player, and we have been known to put it on repeat both in the house and in the car for days – it is a CD that was great the first time, but in my opinion only gets better the more you listen to it (unlike the teenage pop music Adam’s been known to blast in the house when I’m gone). Adam proclaimed to the world that “Blackbird” was his favorite song, but my money is on “Sally” for the winner of a future grammy. But I’ll give him “Blackbird” as a close second.
At this point, having now fulfilled my moral obligation to inform you of music you ought not live without, I am going to cease and desist and return to my PhD shaped world and either read or bang my head against the desk in hopes of shaking lose some more space in which to cram more knowledge and/or as a sign of protest (that is if I can find my desk underneath all these dang books). So, I shall leave you with the links Adam had at the bottom of his review. [And, can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that I remembered how to embed links and photos in a post even though it has been six months? Yes, that's right, I'm clearly amazing.]
- Buy album on iTunes ($9.99)
- Buy album on CD Baby ($11.99)
- MySpace Music page
- Facebook Fan page
Posted in reviews by Sarah Walker Cleaveland
