{"id":12002,"date":"2009-04-11T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/04\/11\/12002.html"},"modified":"2009-04-11T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T08:11:00","slug":"great-harmonies-and-catchy-mel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/04\/11\/great-harmonies-and-catchy-mel\/","title":{"rendered":"Great harmonies and catchy melodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I just put together my first iMix.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite musical trios--Cindy Kallet, Ellen Epstein, and Michael Cicone--does gorgeous harmonies on songs ranging from the funny to the sublime. Some of their songs were written by Kallet, some are covers; some are a cappella, some accompanied by various instruments. And a lot of them are now in the iTunes Store.<\/p>\n

So I made a playlist of a dozen of my favorites of their songs, and published it to iTunes under the name \"Cindy Kallet sampler<\/a>.\" (Even though the playlist doesn't actually contain any of Kallet's solo pieces--I also like those, but the iTunes Store doesn't yet have my favorite solo album of hers.)<\/p>\n

I'm guessing that most of you are about to move on to some other page because you aren't into folk music. Before you do that, I recommend that you take 30 seconds to listen to the snippet of the first song on the playlist, \"I'm a Mammal.\" It's the best, funniest, catchiest, and most Bobs-like song about breastfeeding that I've ever encountered, and a fair number of people with no interest in folk music have enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

. . . As an experiment, I'm including a Flash widget that displays a nicely formatted rendition of the playlist, assuming you have Flash; sadly, you can't listen to the snippets from this widget, you have to click an item to listen to the snippet in iTunes.<\/p>\n

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I should note that a fair number of K\/C\/E songs are available elsewhere online as well. For example, as I noted last April, you can listen to the entirety of their latest album, Heart Walk<\/a><\/cite> online for free; if you like it, then you can order the CD directly from them for $15, or get instant gratification by buying it from the iTunes Store for $10. And if you click around from that page, you can listen to a couple of songs from each of Kallet's other albums.<\/p>\n

Some of their songs can also be heard in full at StumbleAudio<\/a>, but it's not clear to me how\/whether one can choose listen to particular desired songs there.<\/p>\n

(Side note about iMixes: I've tried to put together an iMix before, but in past attempts, iTunes hasn't had most of the songs I wanted to include. So part of why I did this one was that I was so pleased that all these songs were available.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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