Random Songs I Like Week #15. This is a brilliant composition by jazz bassist and composer Steve Swallow, with hysterical lyrics by British jazz vocalist Norma Winstone. This song has always resonated with me, since I moved to the Uber-fancy Upper East Side of Manhattan. This is the performance that I captured on my 2019 album Solo Sessions Volume 1. Buy the album here: https://brendaearlestokes.bandcamp.com
Random Songs I Like Week #13! (For this series, I will be posting a new song every week from every imaginable style and genre. The only criteria is that I need to like it!)
This is a perfectly wonderful, cozy song written by James Taylor. How could you not love this amazing piece!?!?
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For this series, I will be posting a new song every week from every imaginable style and genre. The online criteria is that I need to like it.
Random Songs I Like Week #12! This song, sung by Bette Midler in the movie Beaches was written in 1936 and originally recorded by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra. This song has always had a special place in my heart from the ugly-crying part of Beaches, where Bette has to bury her best friend (played by Barbara Hershey.). Excuse me while I sob into my pillow…
For this series, I will be posting a new song every week from every imaginable style and genre. The only criteria is that I need to like it.
I have been a longtime Ryan Adams fan, since his days as the frontman of Alt-Country band Whiskeytown. This song, like many of his, captures the feeling of longing and the bittersweet feelings of being in love.
For this series, I will be posting a new song every week from every imaginable style and genre. The only criteria is that I need to like it!
Random Songs I Like Week #10 is a gorgeous Bossa Nova by Brazilian master Antonio Carlos Jobim with English lyrics by Ray Gilbert.
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Sight reading is a thorn in everyone’s side and something that nearly every student I have come across has needed more help with. In this video I tackle the #1 problem that keeps people from being able to sight read effectively. Hint: it’s all about intervals.
For this series, I will be posting a new song every week from every imaginable style and genre. The only criteria is that I need to like it!
“How could someone that has not even been born assemble generations of people with his tiny heartbeat?” The Endless Wait is an original song I wrote as part of a The Motherhood Project song cycle called, which documents her experience mothering in the 21st Century. This song was written about my pregnancy and the myriad of thoughts and visions that consumed her while she was carrying her son.
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For this series, I will be posting a new song every week from every imaginable style and genre. The only criteria is that I need to like it!
Another song in my #RandomSongsILike series, this is such an addictive song to listen to. Miley was heavily inspired by the Stevie Nicks song “Edge of Seventeen”, which is another awesomely addictive song. I wanted to try some piano fireworks on this one to match the crazy intensity of the song and all the vocal belting. Let me know if you dig it!
For this series, I will be posting a new song every week from every imaginable style and genre. The only criteria is that I need to like it!
Happy Valentine’s Day!! This song is extra special to me, since it was the first dance at our wedding. This song spoke to us because it embodies how happy we are just being together. XOXOXO
For this series, I will be posting a new song every week from every imaginable style and genre. The only criteria is that I need to like it!
Anyone who grew up in Canada was inevitably steeped in the music of Gordon Lightfoot. His music was a staple of my CBC listening as a child and even though I might have rolled my eyes at it as a teen, it is something that I have grown to love as an adult. In my version, I try to reproduce his lauded finger-picking guitar style on the piano. Enjoy!