As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Jesse Winchester


One of my favorites, the greatly-underappreciated Jesse Winchester, died this past Friday. While his “Nothing But A Breeze” appears on my Top Songs list, he wrote and recorded numerous other classics as well, both while in self-imposed exile in Canada and after his return to the States. The Washington Post ran a nice obituary this morning.

I was lucky enough to get a front-row seat this past October when Winchester did a show at the Barns at Wolf Trap. All acoustic, and one of the most intimate shows I have ever seen.
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