Before we return to mining great older songs, we’re spending the balance of January looking back at more great stuff from 2022. One track, up to three times a week. Don’t forget to join in on the conversation, too. And you can always keep up via the Playlist Repair main and Playlist Repair ambient playlists on Spotify.
‘You'll have to check your phone later, way later/Now that we're alone, don't ya feel better?’
One of several songs from 2022 tossed my way by a good friend who’s also constantly on the hunt for new music, Homemaker is a dazzler from Natural Brown Prom Queen, one of the best-reviewed albums of the year. Sudan Archives is the stage name for Brittney Denise Parks, a Cincinnati-raised violinist/singer/songwriter who, much to our good fortune, wasn’t satisfied with what she was doing with the violin and set out to explore how other cultures play the instrument. “It’s such a serious instrument in a western concert setting, but in so many other places in the world it brings the party,” Parks told The Guardian last fall.
Yeah, they are something. Never quite got that fashion thang.
I dunno. Those fingernails are more for bottle neck guitar than violin.