Music related to our summer content, created by friends, recommended by members, or just full of summer feels.
By Jacob Herold
What’s in the Playlist?
Related to Summer Content
Beauty of the ordinary
Happy Forever (Jess Ray, Langdon) – “On my best and worst of days / Memorable or mundane / Bright with sun or dark with rain / Oh I know…you’ll make me happy forever”
Endless Summer (The Gray Havens) – “So while I find out where this goes / I'm giving standing room to the cold for now / But not a place upon a throne, no”
Storybook (Geoff Zanelli, Jon Brion, Christopher Robin [2018])
Winnie the Pooh Suite (Henry Jackman, Winnie the Pooh [2011])
Encanto – Imagination Redeemed episode: “Finding the Great Story in the Kitchen Sink”:
All Of You (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
Dos Oruguitas (Sebastian Yatra, Lin-Manuel Miranda)
El Río (Germain Franco)
Waiting On a Miracle (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
DEEP MAGIC – John Mark McMillan album feature: “Finding Magic in the Mundane”:
Awake in the Dream
Has It Been You
Love With A Crown
Ordinary Love
Re-Enchanted World (Sessions)
Other connections
A Hidden Life; Hope (James Newton Howard, A Hidden Life [2019]) – Recommended visual media
La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaf, Louiguy, Madeleine Peyroux) – A song for “Rosas & Mimosas”
Created by Friends
Matthew Clark
Every Beauty – “Think of the world the Lord has made as if it were a lover’s bouquet”
Summer of the Moonflower – “Something new is blooming in the night / Something green is growing just beyond your sight”
Joshua Messick
Light of Dawn
Skyward Dreams
Jacob Herold
Attaboy
Further Up, Further In
Sunday Best
The Train And The River
Recommended by Members
From Amy Lee
Don't You Want to Thank Someone (Andrew Peterson) – “But when you see the morning sun / Burning through a silver mist / Don't you want to thank someone?”
Field Trip (Thomas Newman, Finding Nemo [2003])
The Lakes (Nigel Westlake, Miss Potter [2006])
Ordinary Miracle (Sarah McLachlan) – “It's not that unusual / When everything is beautiful / It's just another ordinary miracle today”
Sabrina: Theme (John Williams, Itzhak Perlman, Sabrina [1995])
From Terri Moon
Clair de Lune (Claude Debussy) – Meditation on the reflection of moonlight on water
Hebrides Overture: Fingal’s Cave (Felix Mendelssohn) – What a summer storm off the coast of Scotland would sound like
Mouse in the Kitchen (Cullen Vance) – Irish jig
Nocturne in B-Flat Minor (Frederic Chopin, Arthur Rubenstein) – Music reminiscent of evening or nighttime
Summer Feels
Jazz/Blues/Swing
All In The Golden Afternoon (Diana Panton)
America The Beautiful (Ray Charles)
Every Summer Night (Pat Metheny)
Road Song (Wes Montgomery)
Summertime (George Gershwin, Sam Cooke)
Summer Wind (Heinz Meier, Johnny Mercer, Frank Sinatra)
Pop/Rock
Adventure of a Lifetime (Coldplay)
All Night Long (Jacob Collier)
Beautiful Things (Gungor)
Dopamine (The Arcadian Wild)
Family (Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors)
Feelin’ Alright (Joe Cocker)
Here Comes The Sun (Jacob Collier, dodie)
Kings Highway (James Bay)
Moon River (Jacob Collier)
Ring the Bells (Johnnyswim, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors)
River (Leon Bridges)
Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)
The Sound Of Sunshine (Michael Franti & Spearhead)
Still Feeling the Waves When You Go to Bed (Lullatone)
Summer Rain (Jacob Collier, Chris Thile)
Summertime (The Head And The Heart)
Summertime Blue (Norah Jones, John Legend)
Sweet Pea (Amos Lee)
Thank God for the Summertime (Ben Rector)
There She Goes (Sixpence None The Richer)
Twenty-four (Switchfoot)
Folk
All Creatures Great and Small (Alexandra Harwood)
Here and Heaven (Aoife O’Donovan, Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan)
I’ll Fly Away (Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss)
Jesus Shall Reign (The Enfield Hymn Sessions)
Keep On The Sunny Side (The Whites)
A Mirror Is Harder To Hold (Jon Foreman)
Ode To A Butterfly (Nickel Creek)
Porch Swing (Trace Bundy)
McQueen and Sally (Randy Newman)
Summer: Walk (The Arcadian Wild)
The House Of God, Forever (Jon Foreman)
Where’s My Bow? (Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan)
Wildflowers (The Wailin’ Jennys)
You Are My Sunshine (Norman Blake)
You’ve Got a Friend (James Taylor)
You’ve Got To Do It (Fred Rogers)
Jacob Herold is a multi-instrumental musician whose music interweaves folk and jazz. He also happens to be a member artist of the Anselm Society Arts Guild. Check out his newest album The Train & The River.