Daily Dose of Music – 6 for 6

Finally!  Melissa Ferrick has been promising a 6 for $6 download and it has arrived.  The songs are "new" and they are acoustic, which is cool.  (Melissa wound up playing my birthday show acoustic and I was really glad it worked out that way.)  They are also never going to appear on any ideal MF set list I might dream up. 

I’ve talked about some of these songs in previous posts about Melissa, (Click the Melissa Ferrick category link on the right sidebar if you want to see those entries.), so you know I’m not really all that thrilled with them.  On the otherhand, when Melissa sings "Standing up here singing my secrets", in Easy, it’s definitely the truth.  These songs, sans Rest Now, feel very much like she’s sharing her secrets. 

Rest Now is the only song of the six that’s different.  It isn’t about her.  It isn’t her story.  It isn’t her secret or her pain.  It’s a tribute to the late Chris Whitley.  It’s a good song.  I liked it the first time I heard her play it in a show, and the second time and I am enjoying this acoustic version as well.

If you’re a Ferrick fan you should grab the six now to tide you over til the album is finished – and that’s the kicker here, Melissa’s had a rough year and the money would go along way toward getting Never Give Up into our hands by the end of the summer or early fall.  If you aren’t a Ferrick fan, I don’t think I can recommend this six to you – choose one of the albums available in her store, instead to start you off.  (Other Side or Skinnier Faster Live  would work for you – preferably all three)

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