Leigh M. Johnson

It’s Day 14 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, and I’m guessing that I’ve revealed enough about my musical tastes by now for there to be several songs that “no one would expect me to love.” For those of you who were looking for a complete U-turn from my selections on Day 2 (“least favorite…

I don’t actually “hate” a lot of bands, mostly because I don’t really listen to bands that I don’t like long enough to log the emotional time it takes to generate real hatred. For today’s 30 Day Song Challenge selection, I was going to pick a song by Creed… but then I figured everyone with…

Well, no surprises today for the 30 Day Song Challenge. My favorite band of all time is the Rolling Stones. I picked their song “Beast of Burden” on Day 1 of this Challenge, when the rule was to post your favorite song. So, my song choice for today is, I suppose, another favorite song from…

My guess is that a lot of people are going to choose a song that they think is boring for today’s 30 Day Song Challenge selection, which actually calls for “a song that makes you fall asleep.” There are a lot of boring things that make me want to fall asleep– boring movies, boring conversations,…

First of all, let me give dance credit where dance credit is due. The woman to the left is the BEST DANCER I’ve ever met in my life. She’s a friend of mine and a regular at Wild Bill’s juke joint here in Memphis, my very favorite place in the world for dancing. (A close…

I’ll begin with an apology for today’s 30 Day Song Challenge selection. I’m aware that it may seem a little like cheating (and a LOT like shameless self-promotion) to choose one of my own songs as the “song I know all the words to.” In fact, it may not even be true. As most people…

The process of determining today’s selection for the 30 Day Song Challenge was an interesting venture, but I do want to complain about the category for a moment first. A song that reminds you of an “event”? What counts as an “event”? I can only imagine that the creators of today’s category must have been…

It’s Day 6 in the 30 Day Song Challenge, which means that today you get a song that reminds me of somewhere. Today’s song reminds me of State College, Pennsylvania, where I spent four years in graduate school at Penn State University. I’m not going to lie; I was never a lover of State College….

The whole process of choosing today’s song was like a little gift from the Universe. I’ve spent most of my time since yesterday ONLY listening to “songs that make me happy” in order to make my selection for the 3rd day of the 30 Day Song Challenge. Seriously, what a fantastic way to spend 24…

Those of you who have been with this blog for a while already know that I’ve written a lot about sad songs here before. In fact, there was a moment a few years ago when this blog enjoyed a little celebrity as my site was the first thing that came up when you Googled “sad…