Have you ever bought an old book in a used bookstore, flipped through it when you got home and found a little folded note tucked in a page in old-time penmanship? This little unknown song feels like that note.
I got the Nothing Like the Sun album by Sting when I was in high school and I must have listened to it about one-hundred million times. Although there are more famous tracks on the album (Be Still My Beating Heart, Englishman in New York, the beautiful Fragile), this song is absolutely perfect, absolutely exquisite in my mind. I love the Shakespeare references, Branford Marsalis’ lonely saxophone, the sloping, film noir bass line, the quasi-lullaby lyrics. I did a cover for my patrons on Patreon last year that i’m posting up here for you to hear.
Are there any songs that feel like a special, private discovery? You sort of wish they were more popular so more people could hear them but also a little (selfishly) glad that it’s like they belong to just you?