sunday sounds
Gaelynn Lea will be a featured speaker/performer at Life is a Verb Camp 2018, and I couldn’t be happier about that. Ever since she won the NPR Tiny Desk Concert competition in 2016, I’ve wanted to hear her play in person. Listen, and you’ll find out why.
sunday sounds – tracy chapman and luciano pavoratti
If I could sing like anyone, I’d sing like Tracy Chapman. Here’s her voice with that of Pavoratti, a study in contrasts – and, at the end – of sweet, simple harmony.
Sunday Sounds : The voice of Harper Lee
Go here to listen to a rare interview from 1964 with Harper Lee about the writing of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” her thoughts on the South, and her attitudes toward writing in general.
sunday sounds : the last words remain
This Sunday Sounds brings us the only surviving recording of one of my favorite writer’s voices – author Virginia Woolf.It is part of a BBC radio broadcast from April 29th, 1937. The talk was called “Craftsmanship” and was part of a series entitled “Words Fail Me.” The audio is accompanied …
Sunday Sounds : down to zero
If there is a musical artist who defines my college years, it is this one. Joan Armatrading has been with me for decades now, and I share one of my favorites with you for Sunday Sounds: “Down to Zero.” I know all her songs by heart, and belt them out …
