MP3 of the Day

Burl Ives died at his home on this day in 1995. Ives was a traveling musician during the Depression. In New York City in 1933, he became a folk singer after meeting up with other musicians, including Woody Guthrie, who were reviving the genre. Ives recorded many hit songs and also appeared in several films, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and East of Eden. He also narrated the classic TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. In his later years, Ives and his wife Dorothy, lived in a home alongside the water in the small town of Anacortes in Washington State. Today we have I Felt Your Shape by THE MICROPHONES (aka Phil Elverum) who grew up in Anacortes.