SOUNDTRACK: TARRUS RILEY-Tiny Desk Concert #59 (May 11, 2010).
Tarrus Riley is a reggae singer with a delicate voice. His accompanists are a guitarist and a sax player (on a cheesey sounding alto sax–although somehow it works). And while the music is still quite reggae in style, it doesn’t sound too much like reggae–perhaps the light guitar strumming removes the backbeat?
So these three songs feel a bit more like pop.
“It Will Come (A Musician’s Life Story)” is a funny, but serious song from a woman to her musician boyfriend. She has lots of complaints “Why don’t you get a job” “do you mind telling your plans to the landlord?” and he tries to explain how music is his work,
“Lion’s Paw” is not so much about the strength of his belief in Jah as it is about the strength of Jah’s belief in him. He seems very happy and joyful during the song (sometimes drifting away from the mic while dancing).
“She’s Royal” is a pro-women song. It’s the most pop sounding of the three.
I’m not a huge fan of reggae, but this is a good collection of sweet, positive songs.
[READ: August 30, 2015] The Mad World of Sign Language
This is a goofy collection of bad English on signs across the world. It turns out that this is the fourth collection of said signs all generated by readers of the British newspaper The Telegraph.
This book is set up geographically. They begin in The Americas, then on to UK & Ireland, The Mediterranean, Africa, Middle East, India, China, and end in South East Asia and Australasia.
Now I love this kind of thing, but there were a lot of pictures in this book that were mildly amusing at best. (Could the fourth collection mean diminishing returns?). Since this is a UK book there is a lot of mirth at British slang which other countries wouldn’t know anything about–which is kind of unfair, right?). Anyhow, the signs are funny in a very limited way. (more…)
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