Ooh child, things are gonna get easier
Ooh child, things'll be brighter

At the risk of sounding like a broken record I'm going to talk about Everwood again. I was struck once more by the excellent music in last night's episode (Kate was too!) The site Everwood Music has been a great help for me, allowing me to track down the music I hear on the show.

Two weeks ago it was Alexi Murdoch, who's Four Songs EP is wonderful (if short, with only four songs.) This week the song that stood out was "Ooh Child" by Beth Orton. It can only be found on the Hope Benefit CD, which I just ordered used from some guy through Amazon. I look forward to listening to it, even though I already listened to most of the songs on their website.

The WB has really stepped up the quality of their shows. I watch three hour-long drama's a week there (Everwood, Gilmore Girls and Smallville - The WB gets more of my time then any other network.) And as I think back they've traditionally had great music. It was a Smallville episode two years ago that first pointed me to Eva Cassidy, an artist that I recommend to friends and family all the time. (Random trivia - The episode was "Crush" in the first season and guest starred Adam Brody from The OC, who got his start on the WB on this episode then later on Gilmore Girls.) It's a mark of truly great music when I hear about 15-30 seconds of it in a TV show and immediately recognize that I want to hear much more. It doesn't happen much, but the WB has been on a roll recently.

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