I’m old, and resistant to what seems like the now normal method of disseminating new music through commercials. I’m actually fairly resistant to anything being disseminated through commercials, but that’s another matter. Once in a while, though, the music placement works; it gets me. A Volkswagon ad brought me back to Nick Drake, and, more recently, a Cadillac ad introduced me to M Ward. I subsequently introduced him to our girl. YouTube offers no footage of that lovely song, “Here Comes the Sun Again” other than the commercial, so instead we began playing this one, “Chinese Translation” from the fantastic album Postwar. We generally avoid animation in our little movie breaks, just not this animation.
Our girl calls her Miss Nina and she was her first favorite singer, leading the way for Mr. Dan (Zanes), Mr. Bob (Dylan), Mr M. (Ward), and currently Mr. Cat (Stevens). But we always come back to Miss Nina, and this amazing song, “Ain’t Got No…/I Got Life. She actually sings her directions to the band: “One more.”
At the end of her music class my daughter’s teacher always gives her students a hand stamp of an instrument or musical notation. The french horn lasted longer than all the others and despite its final days of looking more and more like a prison tattoo than anything else, our girl was delighted. It led us to this, which delights us still…
