Songs for Saturday: A new story series, with music

[mdlbear]

I was up early this morning (never did get all the way back to sleep after the 4am power outage) casting about for something to write about for this week's S4S. Maybe I need to open my songbook at random? Throw darts at my CD collection? Then I saw "Playing Together" by dialecticdreamer in my reading list. Music! And part of a series tagged with tammy lin. Iiiiiiinteresting. I love a good rabbit hole.

So I clicked on the tag and found that where I'd started was only the second story in the series. Which was good, because I'm a rather slow reader. The first one was, not too surprisingly,

"Tammy Lin"...

Anyone who's ever heard any version (there are hundreds) of Child Ballad #39 can see approximately where this is going (and how much fun Dialecticdreamer is having flipping things around).

And at the end of the post are the notes, starting with "Musical soundtrack that helped shape the story". Links. Lots of them. Even better, scattered throughout the 39 (at time of writing) comments are more links. So, yeah.

I'm not going to copy all those links into this post. Just go read it and click for yourself. I'll be somewhere down the rabbit hole.

Comments

thank you!

[dialecticdreamer]

For anyone interested, thinking that "This piece would be amazing for--", I have two prompt calls a month, and ALWAYS welcome new, experimental, or unusual music links. Join the fun!

[technoshaman]

♫ Go down the rabbit hole and out the other side
you can't go home in the middle of the
magic carpet ride
you gotta greet the sun before his
lovely daughter moon
you can't forsake the journey for the
safety of your room
until you learn your lesson well. ♪
-- SJ Tucker, "Cheshire Kitten"

(For those who are reading this who are *not* Mandelbear, Sooj also has a version of Tam Lin (along with Betsy and Alec...)