I’ve featured her before, on my first ever Song for a Sunday, and this is my other favourite song by her: it’s Vienna Teng and ‘Kansas’ (apologies that the quality isn’t amazing):
Still feeling rotten, but I dug out the perfect novel to accompany feeling sorry for myself: Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson. So far, giggling away to myself in a corner. Lovely.
I love your choice of song. Vienna's voice is beautiful. Thanks for the introduction.
Hope you are feeling better very soon
Helen xx
Thanks Helen.
And isn't it lovely? The second chorus ("bury this heart..") gets me every time.
I hope you're feeling better soon. My husband and I are struggling out of very long colds, so I can sympathize.
Your choice of Raising Demons should help you get better quickly, laughter being the best medicine. I loved this book and Life Among the Savages. It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud, but these books do it.
I'm exactly the same, Joan! I rarely laugh out loud, but I've been sat chuckling in the corner with Raising Demons. I'm so glad I remembered I had it waiting, as it is perfect for a cold.
Love the song! Hope you are feeling better very soon!!!!
Thanks Nicole, and so pleased that you liked Kansas!
A long time ago I taught 8th grade English….."Charles" was always the hit of the year. That a mother could not realize her child was the very problematic Charles really amused 12 and 13 year olds. Now that I have my own grandchildren, I am more sympathetic! I also love the one about switching beds…. how did this glass end up next to that bed ( and THAT bed occupant?)
One of my favorites! Thanks for sending me back to the bookcase for these!
Barbara M. in NH
Hurrah, glad to send you back to this! I find it incredible that Jackson wrote these sort of books AND her creepy Gothic ones – so different.
What a beautiful song. Thank you.
Get well soon, Simon, & enjoy the book meantime.
Isn't it lovely?
Thanks Gill!
Simon, Vienna Teng is a singer-songwriter I listen to sometimes, and my son–who attends college in Boston–says some of his friends are big VT fans. So she has cross-generational appeal. I like her peppier songs, but this one sounds good too. Hard to believe her first album came out in 2002.
I've not found anyone here in the UK who has heard of her – glad to know that she's still popular across the pond :)