Right, so we are back to following connections between artists.  It always makes me happy to discover connections between artists or to see names I recognize in the liner notes of an album (which I one reason I love to by hard copy albums instead of mp3s!).  So it was a nice surprise to find that Harper Simon played guitar on Sean Lennon's album Friendly Fire.  It was four years before Simon released his debut album, so I did not yet know how much I appreciated him as an artist in his own right but I knew him through his band Menlo Park and because of his father.  Sean Lennon is another artist that I discovered through his father and I imagine most people could deduce who his famous father is!  His sound is not as clearly influenced by rock'n'roll in the way that his father's was, it has a more eccentric style which is particularly evident when you watch the film and music videos that go along with Sean Lennon's album Friendly Fire.  The album is his version of a break up album and to some it might seem melancholy, perhaps even melodramatic, and it's true that the album can in no way be called cheerful.  It's lead single is called "Dead Meat" afterall and the album wraps up with a song called "Falling Out Of Love" but don't let that deter you from giving him a listen.  Lennon's voice is unassuming and though it is in a more nasal range than most, to me it is beautiful.  It is suited to a more mellow mood and he knows how to use his voice to it's best effect, not trying to force it to go places it shouldn't.  Beautiful piano melodies and at times almost theatrical strings fill out the songs, accenting and lifting the songs, balancing out the humble, poetic and, at times, despairing lyrics.  I like all of the songs on the album for various reasons but just at this moment I am liking the short and sweet song Tomorrow.  His vocals are central to the song and they quickly build and then fade back ending on a guitar sound which I just noticed is actually very reminiscent of some early Beatles songs. Anyway, this is a long round about way of saying you should take a listen!