Archive for May, 2014
Amy Ray: Goodnight Tender
Goodnight Tender is Amy Ray’s first country album, and testifies to her range and virtuosity as an artist who is always game to follow a thread of melody into new and rugged territory.
Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”
“I’d like to write a great peace song,” Irving Berlin told a journalist in 1938, “but it’s hard to do, because you have trouble dramatizing peace.” Years before John Lennon or Bob Dylan were even born, Berlin took up the challenge of penning an anthem that would inspire his fellow men to live in harmony. […]