Music Friday: A little country

I might have been born in Kentucky, but I am not country.  My family lived in the suburbs of Cincinnati and then I spent my teenage years in the Northeast.  Never have I claimed to be country and relate to the music.  It kills me to see these suburban kids that live in the city put on their cowboy boots, go to rodeos, and act like this is what their lives are all about.  Get real!  However, I do have an appreciation for country music.  It comes in phases, which I am currently in one.

The other day I heard a country song that I just loved.  Now I have been mostly listening to the country station in the car and my Zak Brown Band Pandora station at work.

So what was the song that inspired this return back to country music?



Other country music I am digging lately:






Which was recently done on American Idol.

Happy Friday everyone! Have a great weekend!

Music Friday: Plain White T's

In honor of one of my favorite band coming to Columbia next week, I got some Plain White T's loving going on today - new and old stuff!








Have a great weekend!

Music Friday:Comfort Music

It is such a blah couple of days.  The weather is rainy/snowy, it is getting colder again, bored at work, busy at night.  Times like those call for comfort food or today - Comfort Music.

These are some of the songs I listen to when I just feel down.

Yeah, they can verge on being depressing, but honestly sometimes I don't want to listen to happy music, just something chill.











Hope you have a relaxing weekend!

Music Friday: Adele

I have been hearing so much about Adele lately, and all of it good.  People just rave over her, and I needed so see what she was all about.  Unknown to me I already knew one of her songs (Chasing Pavements) and loved her already, just didn't know if was her.

These songs are on her recently released album.  Powerful stuff.  Enjoy!







Have a great weekend!

Music Friday: AI Reject

This week on Music Friday I want to share with you some music from a recent American Idol reject.  Tim Halperin was on this current season of American Idol and was voted off after only one week of "live" performances.  (I say "live" because I have heard the past two weeks of "live" shows have been taped in advanced.)

I loved Tim from the beginning, and especially during Hollywood Week he was amazing!  He is more talented than many of the other contestants that moved on.  Lucky for him he is already in the works for making his own album!  Although, he can not release it yet because of his contract with AI, Tim released one of his original songs for free.  You can download it off his website or listen to it here:

Here is another one of his songs with his own music video:

And for fun check out some of his Idol performances:

I really like this guy and hope he has a successful career.

Have a good weekend all!

Look Mom, I'm Famous!

One of the regular posts I am thinking about sharing, is some of the music that really inspires/entertains me.  I mean who doesn't enjoy music - I sure do! I have been known to break out into random song at any point during the day, and I am sure the people who drive next to me on the highway get a pretty entertaining show.

In all seriousness, music is something that really resonates with us all.  There is nothing like hearing that one song that perfectly fits with where your life is at the moment.  Or the therapeutic feeling you get belting out your favorite song.  Lately I feel like I have really neglected that side of me.  In high school I did chorus and musical theater, and was really into exploring music.  However when you grow up and are busy with life you forget about things that give you that kind of happiness.

(Yes, that is me as Deborah Sue in Bye Bye Birdie)

Well, I am done with being so caught up with work and bills that I want to get back to enjoying things that I love - I'm not even that old!  I hope that making this a regular thing, it will encourage me to keep exploring and connecting to music.  Not all of it will necessarily be new.  I think it is also important to discover older music and re-discover music you once loved.

The song I want to share this week is personal - partially because I am in the music video ... kind of....

Sara Bareilles - Uncharted

Click on the above link to check it out.

While I haven't heard too much of Sara Bareilles' music, what I have heard is awesome!  This is a new one she just came out with  and the tune is just so catchy.  I just want to lip sync along with the video and dance around.  It's on her new album, Kaleidoscope Heart (and by "new" I mean September), which I can't wait to listen to.

(Amazon)

Just see what Sara says about the song on her website:

"This is about being a fan of people who take chances, who are fearless, who have integrity, and go off into the world saying yes to what's around them. It's filled with some of the people in my life who do that everyday. "

How can you not enjoy a song like that?

So how am I in the music video?  Well when the hubby took me to see Ben Folds at the end of January, the night the snowpocalypse began (hey, once we get concert tickets we are dedicated to going), Ben was filming a few videos with the crowd.  One of those videos was supposed to be part of the music video for "Uncharted".  Within the past few days they released the video and sure enough, the shots from the concert are in the video.  We are pretty far back on the left side, but the Hubby swears he can see my hair, haha!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.  I haven't been able to get it out of my head the past few days!