The music I listen to is the quiet symphony of voices in the lobby of O’Neill Library. I asked my BC Libraries friends, and many responded with their favorites (below), sometimes with specific albums. I hope you find some artists new to you! One recommended following an ongoing Twitter thread: 1000 favorite tunes of Duke Professor Gavin Yamey, a public health professor at Duke with eclectic tastes and a penchant for deep cuts: https://bit.ly/yamey-1000
Silvana Estrada: Lo Sagrado, Trash Rabbit, Tom Heyman: Show Business, Baby, Carly Rae Jepsen: Emotion or Dedicated side b, Black Seeds, Fat Freddy’s Drop. Fly My Pretties, Brandy, Beatles: Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s, Badly Drawn Boy: One Plus One is One, Big Thief: Capacity, Elliott Smith: Either/Or, Dick Stusso: In Heaven, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Mitski, Ethel Cain, Maggie Rogers, Florence and the Machine, High Fidelity Soundtrack (2002 film, 2020 Hulu series), Hello, A Tribe Called Quest, Cat Power: Moon Pix, Cowboy Junkies: Whites Off Earth Now , John Frusciante: Niandra LaDes, Usually Just A T-shirt, The War on Drugs: Lost in The Dream, Shilpa Ray: Last Year’s Savage, Okkervil River: Away, I Forgot to Love My Father: self-titled EP, Sofi Tukker: Wet Tennis, Sly & the Family Stone: Greatest Hits, Arlo Parks, Nick Waterhouse, Nia Simone