Keeping Up With Conrodthe life & times of c. jay conrod

The other night, some­one who had never heard me before asked me to sing. I sang them a verse of “Ribbon in the Sky,” we talked for a while, and walked away. Then, I started won­der­ing, “Why do I always sing old songs?” The sim­plest answer came, I don’t really like much of the cur­rent songs, but that sparked another ques­tion: why don’t I like cur­rent pop songs? The truth is I do like some songs, but they don’t stick with me like the older music does. Recent music means so lit­tle because we now treat music like it’s dis­pos­able. Continue read­ing →