God Saw Fit To Make Tears

[rivka]

This song's been stuck in my head for the last week, since I heard Alistair Moock perform it at SUUSI. I'm not crazy about the version he put on his album, which is distractingly jangly. I think it works best with a solo, stripped-down guitar accompaniment, as he plays it here.

Here's the story he told about it: he was driving around one day with NPR on the radio, not particularly listening, when he heard a commentator say the phrase, "That's why God saw fit to make tears."

"So I turned the car around and went home," he told us, "because all the singer-songwriters in Boston listen to NPR, and one of them was going to write the song."

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's good. Thanks!

[ororo.livejournal.com]

"because all the singer-songwriters in Boston listen to NPR, and one of them was going to write the song."

I like that. A lot.

[redbird23.livejournal.com]

It's very pretty. He's a UU? Or just was a visting artist at SUUSI?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Just a visiting artist at SUUSI, I think. Although a number of the musicians they bring in are UUs, surely they can't all be.