Saturday, June 18, 2011

Two songs for father's day

What sort of music you choose to mark father's day depends on the music you associate with the men who have held the place of father in your life,of course, and those choices will be as varied as the day is long. There are two songs which thoughtfully and gracefully walk through the connections of child to father over time, circumstance, change, and memory that work especially well for thinking of fathers, and father’s day

In My Father's Only Son Carrie Newcomer take the gentles details of a summer afternoon and an unspoken connection from childhood up through the years. In I'll Go Too Newcomer takes a bit of a different turn on shared memory and memory of shared love between father and child, through good times, times of laughter, and times of change.

carie newcomer best of album coverBoth of these songs may be found on Newcomer’s album Betty's Diner: The Best Of Carrie Newcomer.

for other father's day listening, you may also wish to see
Carrie Newcomer: Before & After
Mother: music celebrating mothers and motherhood: McKeown, Ryan, Spielberg
The Clancy Legacy

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Music for father's day



In her song I’ll Go Too, Carrie Newcomer traces the turns from father reassuring daughter to daughter giving her father comfort. It’s a gentle take on growing, risking, grieving, faith, and connection. My Father's Only Son offers another look at the father and child connection, changing as the child grows, framed in memorable images of fishing and evenings in the midwest. You may find both of these songs on her album Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer.

If you might be looking for an Irish tune for the day, guitarist Donal Clancy has that covered, with the piece Ask My Father, on his recording
Close to Home.




you may also wish to see
The Clancy Legacy

Carrie Newcomer: Before & After

Mother: music celebrating mothers and motherhood: McKeown, Ryan, Spielberg

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