Favorite Albums of 2012 - Number 7

A melancholy day with the terrible doings in Connecticut. But one of the things about music is it can help heal, help people get through difficult times, it can just help in a small but maybe meaningful way.

Ryan Bingham - Tomorrowland

I've written about Ryan Bingham before, specifically how I think he carries on the tradition of Springsteen-esque rock. He is the type of artist whose music fits the image: jeans, flannels, stubble-faced.  This record is a great mix of acoustic-based folk and harder barroom stompers. It is the former collection of songs that hit the hardest. His songs reflect the darkness that makes up the shadows of life.  A big part of life is the sadness, is the loss. Life really is all loss, from the day we are born we are on a path towards dying. The struggle of life is to fight through that and reach for the light on the other side of the shadows, for the things that make it all bearable.

It is sort of appropriate this record comes up today. Here's "No Help From God."