Our Fourth of July was great this year. We went downtown to Battery Park with some friends for a free Jenny Lewis/Connor Oberst concert (Corinne and I are Jenny Lewis fans).
It was as good an afternoon as one could hope for—hanging out on a blanket in the park with the tall Wall St. buildings on one side and the Hudson River and Statue of Liberty on the other. And there’s no better way to nap in the park than to doze off to Connor Oberst’s singing. I’m not a huge fan of his, but if I were hiring someone to sing my wife and I to sleep every night, he’d be on the shortlist of candidates.
Anyway, that reminded me to make a sleep-time playlist for the baby before she gets here in the next few weeks. Like every music-loving parent, Corinne and I can’t wait to have someone new in the house to enjoy music with.
So here’s the first of many baby-centric playlists: The Bedtime Mix.
The Sleeptime All-Stars in my book are Hem and Norah Jones—any tune off of “Rabbit Songs” or “Feels Like Home” is going to be a good one, and Norah’s side project, The Little Willies, have some good ones too. Corinne will probably add some Innocence Mission, Kings of Convenience, Sun Kill Moon, and more Iron and Wine, but I don’t really know those bands that well.
Anyway, enough talk. Have a listen, and let me know if you have any suggestions of your own!
