How Glad I Am

Posted by amy on May 11th, 2007 filed in words and sounds

My Podcast Playlist is a bit eclectic

  • Accident Hash – A Boston based music show playing “podsafe” music. I liken it to college radio for the 30something set
  • Cast On – A knitting podcast, which doesn’t do it justice in any way, good music, good stories and some yarn talk thrown in.
  • Fit-Pod – workout mixes
  • Jaybird’s Endless Boundaries – Used to be just a phish podcast, now mostly jam bands
  • Looking Out The Window – The stories behind the songs
  • Managing The Gray – New Media Marketing
  • MCLA Podcast – my podcast for the college
  • Nugcast – More jam bands
  • The Dead Show – A weekly hour of the best live Grateful Dead music
  • This American Life – you know that quirky NPR show

Most of the new music shows I’ll enjoy, but not really pay attention to. Every once in a while, a song will grab hold of me. Last year, around this time, I heard Noam Weinstein’s “When I Get My Shit Together” on Cast On and that became our family anthem for the summer, my children loved singing along (yes, I am the worst mommy ever). This past spring, it was Black Lab’s “Mine Again” which I still listen to frequently, but I mistakenly bought the album and not just the single on I-Tunes, and found the rest of the album wasn’t up to the same standard.

Just a few days ago, I was listening to Nugscast and was blown away by a song called “How Glad I Am” by the Grayboy Allstars. This is a poppy love song, which isn’t usually my thing, but the song has a hook, the singing is fantastic and it just may be the best single of 2007.

If you’ve got a buck, download the song and tell me what you think (or you can listen for free by downloading the podcast – http://www.nugs.net/nugscast/070418.aspx)


2 Responses to “How Glad I Am”

  1. C.C. Says:

    Flattered to see two of my podcasts on your iPod. That will never stop making me smile when people post things like this.

    Noam is a great singer. Dan who sometimes fills in for me on Accident Hash went to school with him and he introduced me to his music. What a voice!

  2. amy Says:

    Hi CC, thanks for stopping by. Shortly after I heard that song, we bought a quaint Victorian mansion by a waterfall, and I felt like momentarily I had actually gotten my shit together (until it all fell apart again.)

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