Danny Michel is a Canadian singer/songwriter from Ontario.
"Why can't I see the sweet things until they're all gone?"
I'm sensing a bit of a trend in my SOTD's (I'm surely not the first one to use this acronym!). I guess I'll try to make this "Canadian singer/songwriter week"!
My favourite song by Danny is called "I Will Love You for Miles".
Hawksley Workman is from a small town in Ontario, but moved to Toronto for his music career. I finally got a chance to see him live a couple years ago - it was just him on his guitar and a pianist he called "Mr. Lonely".
For some reason, I still think of him as NEW, but his first album was over a decade ago. This song comes from his second album I believe, and it contains one of my favourite Hawksley lines: "Don't dive shallow in deep dark waters".
Ron Hawkins is an indie musician from Toronto. This song is from his lastest CD, called "10 Kinds of Lonely". I've followed his career for 15 years - he's been in different bands, including The Lowest of the Low.
I cover a handful of his songs, including this one!
Josh Ritter has been a regular on the sampler CDs that come out monthly Paste Magazine. He's a wonderful singer/songwriter. This is from his new-ish CD.
I've been on an Arcade Fire kick since their new album came out last week. This song - Neon Bible - is from an older album, and this video is from a 'documentary' about the band from a few years ago. They've all crammed into an elevator to play the song live!
I've decided to try to post a song each day. It can be any song that I'm currently listening to, or is stuck in my head. It can be a new song that I've just discovered, or an old favourite (that's right, "favourite" has a U in it!). The only criterion is that the song doesn't suck. I realize that this, of course, is a value judgment, so I need to be more specific: the song doesn't suck to ME!
I realize that I may be over-ambitious here. Ideally, I'd post a song each day here. But I have to be realistic (hence the quotation marks around "Day"). I'll do what I can, with the goal of a song each day!
My first song is by a Canadian woman named Hannah Georgas. I've heard her name before but not heard any of her music, so I had some time this morning and I YouTubed her (can I make a verb out of YouTube?). Anyway, she's from BC, and this song is called "The Beat Stuff".
