Bob's Music Therapy

5 Songs to Jumpstart Your Week

Unfamiliar songs (or a new version of a familiar one) cause the brain to form new neural connections. Uptempo and positive songs like these can lift your spirits.

In the early ‘60’s, Delbert McClinton taught a young John Lennon to play the blues harmonica. Here, he celebrates finding a partner with a matching off-kilter outlook.

The smooth voice of Rita Coolidge brought her a string of hits. Her recently released new song below describes how we can go through hard times together but ultimately benefit from it: we “go in as the rain in the cloud, [and] come out as a rainbow.”

Caedmon’s Call’s song “Daring Daylight Escape” tells of not knowing how or when to propose marriage, but feeling sure time is running short. The song’s hurried pace and the line “please say ‘yes’ quick ‘cuz the sun’s going down” say it all.

Deborah Coleman, a singer-songwriter and guitarist, was named the Best Female Blues Guitarist in 2001. Her guitar propels this song, with lyrics emphasizing our need to find a safe haven—a place or person providing support—when times get tough.

This song by Austin de Lone, a blues and roots music keyboardist and singer-songwriter, is about his effort to step in after a woman’s spat with her clueless boyfriend. His plan to attract her attention apparently is “doing my best not to hide.”

I hope you found a song or two here that can brighten your day or even your week! Blessings, Bob Pomeroy