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Front-Ranger:
A new CD by one of my favorites--Sting! It's called Songs of the Labyrinth, a compilation of lute/vocal songs from the Elizabethan composer John Dowland. Something completely different! Read more about it at

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6263882

Toast:
Interesting Album Front-Ranger
I decided to see if I could find it online and there it was
I downloaded the mp3 version and One track was
    Come Heavy Sheep.mp3
Ah Ha I said - a Brokeback song from the 1600s

but I soon discovered that the song is actually
   Come Heavy Sleep.   from 1597

Come heavy sleep, the image of true death;
and close up these my weary weeping eies:
Whose spring of tears doth stop my vitall breath,
and tears my hart with sorrows sign swoln cries:
Com and possess my tired thoughts, worne soule,
That living dies, till thou on me be stoule.

Com and possess my tired thoughts, worne soule,
That living dies, till thou on me be stoule.

Come shape of rest, and shadow of my end
Allied to death, child to blakefact night:
Come thou and charm these rebels in my breast,
Whose waking fancies doe my mind affright.
O come sweet sleepe; come, or I die forever:
Come ere my last sleep comes, or come never.

Interesting album, not a rock album by any stretch of the imagination.
but if you let it take you back to Elizabethan England, quite cool.

Thanks Lee for a different bit of music.

Front-Ranger:
Yr welcome, Toast! That NPR link has three songs from the CD that you can download, everybody.

Front-Ranger:
Okay, I know the suspense has been killing you, so I will come out with it now. The song "Spiritual" by Pat Metheny which AP cites as her inspiration for the "dozy embrace" flashback reminds me very strongly of another song. And that song is...Let it Be, by John Lennon/Paul McCartney. Anybody else feel the same way??

Front-Ranger:
My new CD arrived yesterday from Amazon--Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie. I was so excited to get it! But my men were aghast. My husband just shook his head in disgust and my son said, "Mom how could you get a CD from an Emo-group?" I had to wait until they both went to bed before replacing the Dave Bruback CD with my new one. The sounds are very different than I'm used to--instruments like crystal glasses being rung and sound effects like fireworks, meteors plummeting to earth, rusty pickups squealing their brakes, and very different lyrics too. Here are the lyrics of the title song:

THe Atlantic was born today and I'll tell you how
The clouds opened up and let it out
I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
When the water filled every hole
And thousands upon thousands made an ocean making islands
Where no island should go (oh no)
Most people were overjoyed, they took to their boats
I thought it less like a lake and more like a moat
The rhythms of my footsteps crossing flatlands to your door
Have been silenced forevermore
And the distance is quite simply too far for me to row
it seems farther than evermore (oh no)
I need you so much closer.
So come on.

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