Sound Takes: A Charlie Brown Christmas
But what distinguishes Guaraldi from his superiors is his respect for the tried and true. If “O Tannenbaum” has worked for a few hundred years, maybe it’s worth kicking around the block a time or two.
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Stephen Akey
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Stephen Akey is the author of the memoirs College and Library. His essays have appeared in The Millions, Open Letters Monthly, and The New Republic.
Sound Takes: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
At once soothing and horrifying, it became for me the soundtrack of grief and hope for my wounded city and country.
Sound Takes: Let’s Knife
Analysis fails before this mysterious amalgam of silliness and sublimity. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for songs with cat whiskers in them.
Albums of Our Lives: Talking Heads’s Talking Heads: 77
There isn’t a weak song on Talking Heads: 77. It’s funny, it’s lyrical, it rocks, and the songs stick in your head.