Sunday, September 14, 2008

Midnight Coverfolk:
Songs for the Middle of the Night



I've always been nocturnal by nature, treating the darkest hours as my own private playspace. It's in the genes: growing up in the summer vacations of my childhood, my siblings, my father and I wandered the house like ghosts until three. Until I joined the public schoolteacher's union, I'd seen the sunrise more times at the tail end of my day than the beginning.

But teaching is an early riser's profession. Fight as I may, after five hours of sleep and a full day in the hallways of urban adolescent chaos, I'm worn by supper, and drained by ten. I stay up as late as I can, winding down, blogging over at the collaborative. But these days, I'm lucky if I see midnight.

Which is to say: please pardon our bedraggled appearance while we remodel our author's sleep patterns, folks. In the meanwhile, here's some quiet songs of the witching hour, written late and tired.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the Be Good Tanyas, but you reminded me of a question that's bothered me - can Canadian (or British, or Australian, etc.) bands really play Americana? Or is it more accurately Canadiana?

boyhowdy said...

Having just come from an Irish Music festival with bands from all around the world (including Canada), I feel especially confident in saying that earning the Americana label is a matter of musical influence and confluence, not geography.

(If else, wouldn't we have to call it Statesiana, to appease the PC? After all, a close third or more of the landmass on this green earth is part of the American continents.)

Anonymous said...

Andrew Bird does a fantastic cover of Dylan's "Oh Sister".

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