Favorite Love Songs: Tuning Up for Valentine's Day
As it’s coming up on Valentine’s Day, that has me thinking about love songs. My favorite ones include
from Kathy Mattea
Goin' Gone
Untold Stories
Asking Us to Dance
from Cathie Ryan
The Farthest Wave
What's Closest to the Heart
from Carrie Newcomer
Tornado Alley
Only One Shoe
Hold On
From Tish Hinojosa
Amanacer
Everything You Wish
from Eddi Reader
Wild Mountainside
from Danu
Follow On
from Emmylou Harris
Someone Like You
from Maura O’Connell
Blessing
What they have in common, I think, is recognition that deep true love includes the hard stuff as well as the joy, and that part of the gift of love is helping us live with and through the humanness of all that. I’m not sure the artists who wrote or who sing all of these necessarily thought of them as love songs, either, but for me they work that way. See what you think, and please share some of your favorites by leaving a comment if you’d like.
from Kathy Mattea
Goin' Gone
Untold Stories
Asking Us to Dance
from Cathie Ryan
The Farthest Wave
What's Closest to the Heart
from Carrie Newcomer
Tornado Alley
Only One Shoe
Hold On
From Tish Hinojosa
Amanacer
Everything You Wish
from Eddi Reader
Wild Mountainside
from Danu
Follow On
from Emmylou Harris
Someone Like You
from Maura O’Connell
Blessing
What they have in common, I think, is recognition that deep true love includes the hard stuff as well as the joy, and that part of the gift of love is helping us live with and through the humanness of all that. I’m not sure the artists who wrote or who sing all of these necessarily thought of them as love songs, either, but for me they work that way. See what you think, and please share some of your favorites by leaving a comment if you’d like.
Labels: Carrie Newcomer, cathie ryan, danu, eddi reader, emmylou harris, kathy mattea, love songs, maura o'connell, music for valentine's day, tish hinojosa
7 Comments:
Like Hold On a lot. Hadn't heard of her. Thanks for the tip!
- Sabatini
I look forward to listening to all these recommendations. Valentine's Day is not my favorite holiday (it's so Hallmark-y and shouldn't we show the people we love that we love them every day?!) but I enjoy discovering new music!
My favorite love song is probably I Could Not Ask for More by Edwin McCain.
I say probably because I change my mind on my favorite song in any category three times a day.
Sabatini,
glad you liked Hold On. Carrie Newcomer is a very fine writer -- you might want to check out her website or search her name here at Music Road. I've written about her work a good bit.
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Julie,
you'll notice I mentioned more than one song... be interested to hear more of yours. and did you ever check out Gretchen Peters' Northern Lights album?
Melissa and James,
I quite agree about telling people you love them every day, and thanks for the reminder -- maybe that's what Valentine's Day is too, a reminder of that.
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