Mood:  chillin'

Well, folks, nitpicky Virgo that I am, it took me a while to get the first review post configured the way I wanted it to. And I just went through an hour-long headache with opening my new eBay account, because I misspelled my first name during the registration process. Sigh... Anyway, let's try to list a few more singles downloads, and see if we need to use an html table format with it.  To check out any of these song downloads, just click on either the text or image links--the songs are free to sample!

Although this song/album has been out since 1999, "Last Song" remains one of my favorites of Jason Webley's songs. He is my longtime-favorite local performer here in the Seattle area, so of course I'm biased. This is the song I sang to myself constantly in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when none of us were sure if we were the next city to get hit by hijacked planes. The song somehow helped to keep my spirits up, based as it is on three people's accounts of apocalyptic dreams that were related to Jason and spurred on the creation of this song. Listen to the words carefully...

"Starwalker", one of Buffy Sainte-Marie's most popular songs these days, is another one I turn to when my spirits are in serious need of lifting. Maybe it's the confidence of the words and the spirit within them; maybe it's the determination of the rhythmic base, maybe it's the expression of pride in who one is; or maybe it's the sum of those, and more. Even though I'm not Native American, somehow this song never fails to lift me up, and make me feel as if I am (still) all that I need to be.

"Walls and Windows" is a song that's been uplifting and sustaining my spirits since the mid-1980's, when I first heard it on a DC-area folk radio program.  It was co-authored by Judy Small from Australia and Pat Humphries from the U.S., apparently during a songwriting workshop somewhere over 30 years ago.  I associate it with surviving the Reagan era, the Cold War, and the alienating experience of being a progressive/feminist and a Lutheran at the same time.  I've always seen it as a prayer for peace, for building bridges over barriers, and for coming to mutual understanding and toleration between opponents, both foreign and domestic...