


Rock -n- Roll: Love Reign O'er Me by Pete Townshend.
Here are my choices for GSOTD on this beautiful Sunday morning. And again, I'm always fascinated to look at places or roads or circumstances where cultures come together and influence each other. And it gives a very intimate taste of what their experience was and the different cultural expressions and permutations there was along the Silk Road at that time, how those cultural permutations expressed themselves in food or in music or in religion, even animal husbandry. The book was called Life Along the Silk Road and it's a wonderful profiling of different kinds of people who travelled up and down the Silk Road, whether they were soldiers, whether they were monks, whether they were merchants. One of the inspirations harkens back to a book by a woman called Susan Whitfield. There is an instrumental called "Kecharitomene" and this piece of music was inspired primarily from three different directions. Their music covers the genres blues, indie, alternative, rock, folk, psychedelic and experimental.Ĭeltic Music: Kecharitomene by Loreena McKennitt. The band has three singers and four songwriters, employing traditional and electronic instruments. Gomez are an English indie rock band from Southport, comprising Ian Ball, Paul "Blackie" Blackburn, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock. Following the September 11 attacks, the song was used to honor the victims, survivors, police, and firefighters involved in the attacks. It was released in April 2001 as the second single from his second studio album America Town. "Superman (It's Not Easy)" (also titled as "Superman") is a song written and performed by American singer Five for Fighting. Rock: Superman (It's Not Easy) by Five For Fighting. Her self-titled debut album was supported by the single "Castles", which would become her international breakthrough. She followed this with the release of her debut extended play, You Mean the World to Me (2019). Ridings rose to prominence in 2017 with her ballad, "Lost Without You", which became a top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart. įreya Ridings (born 19 April 1994) is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Singer Song Writer: Love Is Fire by Freya Ridings. Genre Songs Of The Day (GSOTD) Updated as of The eighth track on The Black Crowes ‘ 1990 album Shake Your Money Maker and one of the singles from the album. It hit number one on the US Album Rock Tracks chart and number 70 on the UK Singles Chart in 1991. This is regarded by many as The Black Crowes' best and most well-known song. Rock/ Rock-n-Roll: She Talks To Angels by The Black Crowes. Daigle grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana in an environment of zydeco, Cajun, and blues music. Lauren Ashley Daigle was born on September 9, 1991. In 2018 she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.Ĭhristian/ Christian Contemporary: How Can It Be by Lauren Daigle. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Emmylou Harris is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. The repertoire included some of the Righteous Brothers' best-known songs, such as "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," "Soul & Inspiration," "Unchained Melody", but also the later "Rock and Roll Heaven", as well as Bill Medley's "The Time of My Life".Ĭountry: Making Believe by Emmylou Harris. This is my favorite overall song, as well as the artist.Įasy Listening: Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers. , "Foolish Games"/"You Were Meant for Me" ranked at number 15 on Billboard 's All-Time Top 100 and held the record in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest chart run of a single for "Foolish Games"/"You Were Meant for Me", which charted for 65 weeks. (Side note).
