I'd been extolling the virtues of Ted Lasso to anyone willing to listen to me, one of whom, my #1🌞, got down to business and polished off both seasons lickety split (while I'm still working my way through season two; I'm not much of a binger). And I mentioned to said 🌞 that one of the episodes featured a song by none other than Andrew Bird, who (1) I love dearly and (2) I saw in concert with #1 some years back, when we still did things like going to live concerts. * A few minutes after making this pronouncement, I got into my car and headed for home. I decided to listen to NPR for the 15 minute journey...which isn't something I normally do at night, by the way. And a story about an Ethiopian musician (Meklit Hadero) was on, and was interesting, so I gave it a listen. (You can give it a listen to, if you want to, by going HERE.) They played some of Meklit's music, and I was interested enough to remember the name of her latest album and Google it when I got home. When I did, I saw that /bandcamp was listed as one of the places that this album was available. Well. They had me at /bandcamp, for sure. So I clicked on that link and here's what appeared:
Uh, Mister DeMille?
Yep.
Weird fuckin' world, ennit?
ANYway...
The Meklit album is fabulous. Give it a free listen or two, then buy it from /bandcamp HERE.
And all this talk of Mr. Bird has whetted my appetite so that I pulled out his albums and have been spinning them. My goodness, he is SO good. And yes, now that you mention it, he does have quite a few albums available on /bandcamp. HERE you go for that.
Ah, /bandcamp. Is there anything they can't do?
* I have since come to doubt my veracity on this, as I have searched and not been able to verify the presence of an Andrew Bird song in Ted Lasso. It is possible that I was mistaken or that I hallucinated this, but that's not the point of this story, thus...a footnote.
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