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Let’s Listen: GOOD LUCK, BABE! (Chappell Roan)
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Let’s Listen: GOOD LUCK, BABE! (Chappell Roan)

music critic, Recording Project, Songwriter, The Music Business

Let’s Listen: GOOD LUCK, BABE! (Chappell Roan)

Chappell Roan, “Good Luck, Babe!” The inaugural artist for this series is hard not to like (at least for me). She is gorgeous in the campy way drag queens are, but with a soaring voice and sense of humor. The drumbeat on GOOD LUCK, BABE! reminded me of BILLE JEAN and it has a moody 80s vibe all through it. The lyrics are great – the rhyme of “truth” with “sunroof” is fantastic. [...]

gwen@gwenhughes.com2025-01-13T10:59:29-05:00January 7th, 2025|music critic, Recording Project, Songwriter, The Music Business|

Why Hymns?
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Why Hymns?

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Why Hymns?

Why do an album of hymns anyway? The word comes from the Greek "hymnos," a sacred song or poem. Since most everything having to do with the Christian church was translated through the Greeks, that's why we call our church songs "hymns" now (our Jewish brothers and sisters call them "piyutim" and our Muslim family calls them "nasheeds"). To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of the traditional Christian hymnal. [...]

gwen@gwenhughes.com2024-03-04T10:32:32-05:00December 30th, 2023|Faith, Journey, Recording Project|