We are not sailors lost out on the sea

[rachelmanija]

The song for the week is "The Pearl," by Emmylou Harris.

The special bonus song is "I Call On You," by Julie Miller.

Is there an easy way to get the subtitle of my journal to appear on the main page?

Comments

[ckd]

Whether or not the subtitle appears is, IIRC, a function of which style your LJ is using. You may have to change styles to get it to appear.

[megancrane.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love "The Pearl." It is definitely worthy of being the song of the week. Numerous weeks, even.

[larryhammer]

And I have yet to thank you for introducing me to "The Pearl." It's a featured song on a recent playlist (called What I'm Looking For) in high rotation.

---L.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, what else is on that list? I have a similar one in my mind which features "The Pearl," the Who's "The Seeker," and Bruce Springsteen's "My Beautiful Reward."

What I'm Looking For

[larryhammer]

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," U2
"The Pearl," Emmylou Harris
"If These are the Things," Tracy Chapman
"King of Pain," The Police
"Rain," Patty Griffin
"Beautiful Day," Nina Nastasia
"Something More Besides You," Cowboy Junkies
"Love," Paul Simon
"... and then it's all gone," Williamson
"Winter," Eastmountainsouth
"Good Company," Martha Berner
"Come On, Come On," Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Come Here Boy," Imogen Heap
"Motherland," Heather Nova
"Monsoon," Luka Bloom
"P-Town Rubies," Beth Hirsch
"Find My Strength," Elisa Korenne
"Echoes," Dar Williams


You know it's a heavy playlist when "Cold Missouri Waters" is evicted for being too hopeful too early, and it doesn't fit later because it poses, rather than answers, the question.

Want a copy?

---L.

Re: What I'm Looking For

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yes please!

We are not sailors lost out on the sea.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

*g* What, my quoting it excessively the entire time I was writing Carnival had no subliminal effect?

I *love* that song.

The whole album is fantastic. But that song is the Carnival song. (Although it's no accident that one of my protags in named michelangelo.) Cowgirl's Prayer is another awfully good album, as is

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*g* What, my quoting it excessively the entire time I was writing <i>Carnival</i> had no subliminal effect?

I *love* that song.

The whole album is fantastic. But that song is the Carnival song. (Although it's no accident that one of my protags in named michelangelo.) <i>Cowgirl's Prayer</i> is another awfully good album, as is <i<Wrecking Ball</i>. And the one that has <i>Going Back to Harlan</i> and <i>Deeper Well</i> on it....

*dies in a fit of emmylouloff*

the dragons are gonna fly tonight

[larryhammer]

Well, it might have. But I didn't have the song till Rachel shared it later.

---L.

we behold the pain become the pearl.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I failed you!

we fear the silence is the voice of God

[larryhammer]

Not if it made it into the book.

---L.

it is the heart that kills us in the end / just one more old broken bone that can not mend.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

If it's half the book that song is a song...

Well, anyway.

Re: We are not sailors lost out on the sea.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I also really, really love "My Baby Needs a Shepherd." Such a clever, chilling use of bedtime story imagery and repetition with variations, all the things her baby needs until it finally comes down to "My baby needs a mother." And "to the cradle come the crows." It took me a moment to remember the actual title, because I always think of it as "The Song of Rachel's Mother."

"Red Dirt Girl," "Michelangelo," and "My Antonia" are my other favorites off that album.

Wrecking Ball is the one with "Going Back to Harlan" and "Deeper Well"-- hey-- the latter is also on my list of "Songs About Ineffable Yearning." That whole album is brilliant.

Re: We are not sailors lost out on the sea.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Oh, editing artifact. Wow, I screwed that comment up six ways from Sunday. *g*

Yes, it's brilliant.

You know she has an album of duets coming out with Knopfler, yes?

Re: We are not sailors lost out on the sea.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Oooh, no I didn't! Cool!

By the way, you and I have remarkably similar tastes in music. I despair of ever posting anything you don't already have.

Re: We are not sailors lost out on the sea.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

My parents are musicians. I have an unfair advantage.