Parsons Playlists: “Acoustic Covers You Didn’t Know You Needed”

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student manager Christine (class of 2025) and features acoustic cover versions of songs.

Acoustic Covers You Didn’t Know You Needed

The Civil Wars – “Billie Jean”

Shoshana Bean and Cynthia Erivo – “I Did Something Bad”

Trousdale – “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”

Sammy Rae & The Friends – “Hotel California – Live at the Roadrunner”

Yoke Lore – “Truly Madly Deeply”

Sara Bareilles – “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”

The Brook & The Bluff – “Don’t Worry Baby”

Mother’s Daughter – “A Sky Full of Stars”

Hozier – “Say My Name”

Aretha Franklin – “Somewhere (Alternate Version)”

My Morning Jacket – “Rocket Man”

bôa – “Duvet (Acoustic)”

Sarah Jarosz – “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57ZezcBAgvahg4eVMiYFQjI3yh&si=mL7T4gXz5oxi7Pbc

And here it is on Spotify:

New CDs added: Fall 2021

New CDs for Fall 2021

Orchestral, Concertos and Chamber Music

Frederic Chopin – Complete Noctures – Jan Lisiecki
Michael Colgrass – Letter from Mozart ; Side by side ; The Schubert Birds

Chopin Nocturnes

Nikolai Medtner – The Complete Piano Sonatas; Forgotten Melodies I, II – Marc-Andre Hamelin
Smyth, Beach and Spain-Dunk – Smyth, Beach and Spain-Dunk: Archaeus String Quartet

Michael Colgrass - Side By Side

Jazz

Kurt Elling – Secrets Are the Best Stories
James Brandon Lewis & Red Lily Quintet – Jesup Wagon
Leyla McCalla – The Capitalist Blues

Mwenso and the Shakes - Emergence

Mwenso and the Shakes – Emergence (The Process of Coming into Being)
Jaco Pastorius – Truth, Liberty, & Soul: Live in NYC: The Complete 1982 NPR Jazz Alive! recording

Jaco Pastorius - Truth, Liberty & Soul

Opera, Opera Excerpts, Choral Music and Art Songs

Aurora Surgit – Ego sum Resurrectio: Gregorian Chant for the Dead
Daron Hagen – Orson Rehearsed: An Operafilm
Franz Liszt – Freudvoll und Leidvoll – Jonas Kaufmann & Helmut Deutsch

Orson Rehearsed

Popular Music

McKinley Dixon – For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her
Sarah Jarosz – World on the Ground

McKinley Dixon - For My Mama ...

Leyla McCalla – Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes
Jim Kimo West – More Guitar Stories
Matthew E. White & Lonnie Holley – Broken Mirror A Selfie Reflection

Sarah Jarosz - World on the Ground

World & Folk Music

Gamelan Cudamani – Odalan Bali
Leyla McCalla – A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey
Leyla McCalla – Recorded Live at the 2016 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Leyla McCalla - A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey

Leyla McCalla – Recorded Live at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Leyla McCalla – Recorded Live at the 2018 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Various artists – African Tribal Music and Dances: Featuring Music of the Malinke, Baoule and Others

Gamelan Cudamani