Thing #6

I chose to look at the award-winning sites. I did not realize that there were so many different resources available that covers everything from word-processing to genealogy to maps to primary source documents. Wow! I chose to look at one of the music winners Last.fm. In 2005 Neil Young taped a live show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The name of the video was Neil Young: Heart of Gold. I recorded it on my DVR and occasionally will watch it. There was one song that appears on the video that, like Neil when he first heard it, I have found to be one of those songs that you can't seem to get out of your head. I used the site to find the album on which it was recorded, Comes a Time. The name of the of the song is Four Strong Winds. The link to the source is http://www.last.fm/music/Neil+Young/Comes+a+Time. Many times we fail to associate music as a reflection of the events going on around us. For example, Woody Guthrie is an American folk singer whose songs reflected the times of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl days of the Plains states. This is a great tool to allow students to search out music that is associated with the events of our nation's history, as studying the culture of different eras is one of our State Standards.