Once in a while this Tart contributes to a really cool project, the Contrast Podcast,  put out by a man named Tim Young over on this blog. He takes submissions from people who record a little intro and then send in a song. Each week has a theme and you’re told the week before what it is, so you have about 5 days to come up with something. It’s fantastic fun, if only to see what your fellow contributors have done.

This week: songs with sirens in them.

I knew immediately what I would choose.

Have you ever seen “Oh Brother Where Art Thou”? If not, go here to get the idea. The music is all real in the film, meaning it’s all from the time period (1930s) Americana. All except one song. That song with sirens in it. But those sirens are not what you might be expecting, … they’re three lovely ladies who lure the fugitives into a deep sleep with a lullabye. And here it is, Don’t Leave Nobody But The Baby sung by Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, and Allison Krauss. The only instrumentation in it is a saw, being played with a bow. xoxo

….go download that podcast to hear what other people did and said.

…..go buy that great soundtrack.

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