Danielia Cotton "Lighthouse Keeper"

When I'm not overscheduled, I can spend nice chunk of time listening to new music on the weekend.

Though we still get piles of CDs sent to the radio station, this exercise of reviewing the anywhere from 50 to 150 singles that are being pitched to me on any given week, happens on my laptop.

For financial and environmental reasons, many music labels have stopped sending promotional singles, and now just send MP3s.  Many other labels do both.

So it's pretty standard, as the week goes by, for me to a) click on a link that I get from a label, via email, and download a song, and b) dig into the mailbox and grab a stack of CDs that I should check out, and put those songs on my laptop.

In both cases, I may not even listen to the song while I'm doing this.

I had a fleeting thought when I was absently downloading this Danielia Cotton song, while on the phone with the label person who was telling me to check it out:  "I wonder if this is 'Lighthouse Keeper'?  Naaah, probably just a song with the same name."

When I do music listening, many times, I'll minimize the iTunes window, so I don't know what song and artist is next.  Not knowing what song is starting, is an effective way to really judge if the song sounds like an mvyradio song and if it grabs attention quickly, without interference from my prejudice (if I think I already do or do not like the artist).

When the opening riff of this track started, my jaw literally dropped open.

I couldn't believe that someone had plucked this awesome, forgotten about, 15 year old nugget from obscurity, to give it another shot.  I was so excited.

(I've since learned that the producer of Cotton's new album is none other than Kevin Salem---so it all makes sense)

I'm not sure if Danielia Cotton's voice is right for mvyradio, but I bet she is a helluva live performer.  Mostly, I'm just glad that people will get another chance to hear this song, and maybe even check out the original.

Kevin Salem "Lighthouse Keeper"

Here's another Weekend Post:

After last weekend's weekend post about bands that seemed to have the talent to break through in the 90s, but didn't quite get there, I went searching for a few more of my favorites.

There were a bunch of really great tracks on Kevin Salem's "Soma City" and I really connected to his songwriting.  But I'm guessing only a few of you remember this song.

If you've never heard it, well, what do you think?  Did the world miss an opportunity?


Hear the song on Youtube.

Weekend posts are a chance to revisit songs that have happy memories, not of anything in particular, other than just hearing the tunes.

Many of these songs were tracks that I played during my 90s stint as an Alternative/Modern Rock radio show.  They're tunes that I hardly hear these days, but are wonderful to revisit.

Click on the "Weekend Posts" label below, to see other posts like this.