Connor's Music Blog

For this listening blog, I listened to "Tom Rushen Blues" by Charley Patton. I haven't loved a lot of the music we've gone over in this course, but I kind of liked this one. It's pretty difficult to pick up on the words, and at times it almost sounds like it's in a different language. I think it's because of the loudness of the instruments over his voice, the quality of the microphone, and the fact that he isn't super clear with his speech. I certainly have no idea what the song is about, but it has a catchy tune and I enjoyed listening to it. I like the way that Charley Patton harmonizes with the instruments in the background, especially the trumpet. It makes for a catchy tune that gets stuck in your head. It kind of has that slight static noise in the background from the old microphone which gives it a little bit of that vintage feel that a lot of these older songs have. It has a good amount though. It's not too much to where it makes it hard to ...

Week 1 Blog Post For this week's listening blog, I listened to La Cumparsita by Carlos Gardel. It is such a sad song but it is beautifully made. It is essentially about a man whose wife left him and now his world is not the same. He talks about how since this happened, his friends no longer come to visit him, and how nobody wants to console him. He talks about how not even the sun peeks out of the window anymore, and how his dog stopped eating upon her absence, and then left him as well. I speak a good amount of spanish, and I enjoy listening to music in spanish to expand my vocabulary and comfort with the language. I thought it was interesting that he uses the word "dejar" to describe his wife and dog "leaving him". I know that word to be used in the sense of simply leaving, but perhaps in this context it could mean death. For example, he talked about how the dog stopped eating, and then leaving him. Listening to the song for the first couple of times I interpr...

  Hello! My name is Connor! I love folk and country music. Some of my favorite artists are Zach Bryan, Tyler Childers, and Colter Wall.