There are a small number of musical artists whose records I will buy “sight unseen,” or, “sound unheard.”
Suzanne Vega is one of them. Her lyrical and melodic genius sits on a higher plane than most. She has the divine in her.
I won her album Solitude Standing on a radio call-in contest at WOKW in Cortland, New York, in 1987. That was the record containing her famous top-40 hit Luka.
[Correction: My sister reminds me that it was she who won this particular record.]
I sat down and wrote her a letter thanking her for understanding what it was like for children like me. A few weeks later, a postcard arrived from her with a kind note thanking me for enjoying her music and for writing to her.
Enjoy this short piece meditating on the thinning veil between our world and another.
’When we sleep so close together that our hair becomes entwined
I must have missed that moment in the gateway to his mind’
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I love Suzanne Vega~! Both my husband and I~! Insightful, masterful poetry and sense of rhythm, empathic. And sense of humor~ Thank you for sharing your sweet story~!
Someone posted "Blood Makes Noise" in the Discord a while back & I liked it so much I had youtube pull up the full album it was from to listen while I cleaned. Five songs in I was annoyed with the results: "No YT I wanted the full album not a Best Of playl - oh."