A Long Time Coming

Greetings, friends and neighbors!
I've joined the blogging bandwagon.
Well, let me explain.
I love music. A lot. More than some, less than others, but a LOT. So I have decided to create a blog where I try to bring people to good music. As the URL says, a good song is hard to find. Well, sometimes. If you're not constantly tapping into the inner workings of the music world, it can get frustrating, or boring, or whatever. My friends complain a lot about how they are tired of all their music, but they don't know how to find new stuff.
That is where I come in.
At least once a week, I will post a GOOD SONG. They will vary a lot in style, genre, age, etc. This is not a hipster-music blog. There are plenty of those. Besides, I am not quite hip enough. This is a GOOD MUSIC blog. Music from all over the world, past and present (future is a bit harder), famous, infamous, and barely-heard.


So, without further ado, here is my first GOOD SONG:


A Good Man Is Hard To Find


This blog gets its name from this song by Sufjan Stevens entitled "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" (harder than a good song? really!). Tom Waits also has a song by the same name. Very different sounds though. Apparently Sufjan's song is based on the story of the same name by the writer Flannery O'Connor, which I have never read. I'll get on that.

Mr. Stevens himself, looking quite the ARTEEST

Sufjan is an interesting character. Born in Michigan, he is a very practicing Christian who plays just about every instrument imaginable. He has a really lovely voice, kind of ethereal-sounding in this song, very soft. However, he can really rock out, too. His albums vary widely from each other, especially his early stuff. For a while he promised us that he would make an album for every one of the 50 states! Yes! So he wrote albums for Illinois and Michigan. Unfortunately, I don't think that he is really going to follow through on that promise.
Good news, though: he did just release a new EP entitled All Delighted People. You can buy it online for only $5! Here is the link:


http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/




If you like this song by Sufjan, here are some other artists you might like:
Elliott Smith
Nick Drake
Iron & Wine
Horse Feathers
Bon Iver




Look 'em up on http://www.last.fm/> if you're curious. It's a great site. Similar to Pandora in that you can create your own little radio station tailored to your music taste.




Anyhoo, comments are appreciated.
Let me know what you think!


Over & Out
Anna