This past weekend, Alastair started recording his first-ever album of kids' music -- or family music as he (and Dan Zanes) prefer to call it. It's going to be a mix of Alastair's original tunes and some covers of songs by American folk/blues greats like Woody Guthrie and Mississippi John Hurt. He played me some of the rough tracks last night, and I think it's going to be a great album -- the kind that adults will enjoy, too. Or at least not be driven insane by. (Of course, I'm somewhat biased.)
My sweetie's album aside, I think it's fair to say that we're in the midst of a children's music renaissance right now, and for this I am incredibly grateful. I truly feel for parents of the late eighties and early nineties, who had to sustain their children on an empty-calorie musical diet of Raffi, Hap Palmer and Wee Sing.
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