Songwriter – Skere9

Carrie Underwood and Michael W. Smith: All Is Well

In 2013 I posted the song “All Is Well”, one of my favorite Christmas songs. It’s from the Michael W. Smith Christmas album.

This is a live version Michael W. performed with Carrie Underwood. I first heard it years ago and have never forgotten it. Underwood almost overpowers the song but I don’t care, it’s a great song and a great rendition.

Personally it’s been a tough year, we’ve lost some dear souls near to my heart. Yet God is good. All the more reason to somberly and soberly reflect on the words of this important musical work.

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Jules Larson and You Know It’s True

So I was watching a re-run of Castle, a great TV drama about a fiction writer who shadows a beautiful police detective to glean ideas for his writing. I was watching Episode 5, Season 3, titled “Anatomy of a Murder”, and at the very end of the show, a fun little song was playing in the background. I’d noticed it before when I’d watched this show earlier – like I mentioned, this was a re-run – but this time I decided to try to find out what that song was called and who was singing.

That search led me to a great website called “TuneFind.com” in which someone has posted exactly this sort of information – detailing the songs you hear in the background of different TV shows. Looking for the Castle episode, I found this page:

Season 3 Episode 5 · Anatomy of a Murder

And there I learned that the song I was looking for was titled “You Know It’s True” and was performed by Jules Larson.

That was easy enough to find on YouTube, and WOW, I’m now a huge fan!

Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) – Paul Revere & The Raiders, from 1971

This is one of my favorite songs from the 1970’s:

That’s “Indian Reservation”, with the subtitle “The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian”. It was by a band called Paul Revere & The Raiders, and I’ve loved that song since I was a kid. The lead singer is Mark Lindsay. Wikipedia reports that he says he is one-eighth Cherokee, although there’s no citation behind that, and this one edit is the only edit attributed to the anonymous Wikipedia editor behind the assertion.

Regardless, it’s a great song. And recently I learned that it was a remake. An earlier version of this song was performed by Marvin Rainwater in 1959:

I think I prefer the version by the Raiders.

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