David Ullman

Bruce Springsteen - Land of Hope and Dreams (Introduction) [Live in Manchester, May 14, 2025] 
Almost included "Land of Hopes and Dreams" live 2025 (which would have made that song's 3rd appearance on my mix albums over the years.

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Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control 

Came up on an Amazon playlist of "Protest Songs" or the like, as my wife and I drove to the first protest of year.

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Brandi Carlile - Church & State
First heard when someone told us to watch the SNL performance. Kinda like a U2 song. Maybe my favorite of the year.

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The Night Flight Orchestra - Give Us The Moon
My Mix Album buddy Kevin Conaway hipped me to this album. "Like The Beating Of A Heart" is on my Karate In The Garage exercise playlist.


 

Brittany Davis - Present Tense 
Released on (Pearl Jam guitarist) Stone Gossard's House of LSGRV: 2024 Loosegroove Records Artist Compilation, along with “The Message,” a Stone/Ani DiFranco collaboration that ultimately got cut from this year’s mix album.


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Eddie Vedder - Room at the Top
Heard on the Apple TV show Bad Monkey, which I really enjoyed. All of the songs were Tom Petty covers. I ultimately watched the Running Down A Dream documentary and realized the obvious, "Holy shit! Tom Petty has a staggering number of songs I love."

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Kiss the Tiger - Every Little Piece of Me 
Been keeping an eye on this Minneapolis-area band since their track, "I've Got Love." "See More" was another contender from their latest album.



 

Zach - Heartscape 

A mainstay since my first 2004 mix. Zach is super-prolific. Also really liked “Drop of Gratitude,” “Holding In Your Love,” and “Panels” from his Into The Bloom album.

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Zoë Says Go - Good Man A photographer I interviewed via my job mentioned this band to me (I think he knows someone in it). I listened so I could write him and tell him I did, and this song stuck. I also dig "Bullets" from the same record. 

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Joe Pug - I Don't Work in a Bank (Live)
The banter after the song made it for me. Long loved Pug, and this live album collects most all of my favorite of his songs.

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Indigo Girls - Kid FearsBeen increasingly curious about the Indigo Girls over the last few years. Amy Ray (my new hero) was interviewed on Katie Pruitt’s podcast, and this song was played at the end. I ended up watching the It's Only Life After All documentary and finally digging into their catalog a little. So far, I love most the sound of their first few albums. "Center Stage" was another contender. 

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Treasury of Prayers - Joe Pug
A mainstay of my mix albums since I first heard him open for Josh Ritter at The Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, 2009. Still pound-for-pound one of the best working songwriters around, this track is from his album Sketch of a Promised Departure. 

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Possible Bird - Show Me Love

My friend Sean's new album. Lyrics made me cry, as did singing my part.

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Le Matos & Electric Youth - Light Again [edit] I learned of Le Matos when I saw the film Summer of 1984 a few years ago. I often listen to their synth music while I work.

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The Swell Season - People We Used To Be 
Also love “Great Weight,” (a Glen song) from this record, but that feels much more aspirational, as we’re all very much under the weight of the “tyrants” sung about. “Hundred Words” was another song that really moved me from their new album, Forward, but ultimately I had too many “don’t give up” songs (if there can be such a thing).
 

Sarah McLachlan - One In a Long Line

One of a handful of songs off her new record I dig (“Gravity,” “Long Road Home,” “Rise,” “If This Is the End…”), also the closing credits song for the rad Lilith Fair documentary.

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Hope the High Road

Heard this song in The Bear Season 4 (love that show! and the music, and the actor--who I also dug in the Springsteen film)

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MILCK - Power of the Heart

Been keeping an eye on Connie Kimberly Lim since "We Won't Go Back" in 2022. This is off her first full-length album, Mother Tongue. "This Skin" and "Suburbia Hungerstrike" were also favorites from that record.

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Paula Cole - Flying Home

I knew her two hits, but after watching the Lilith doc, I sought out her first album (This Fire). I absolutely loved it and was floored by the range--and sometimes ferocity--of her voice. That intensity is not on display here, in this track from her most recent record (Lo, 2024), but I woke up from a dream one morning with this track in my head and realized it had to be the one. "Calling All Saviors" is the other song from Lo I really liked. Really wanna dig back into her whole discography.

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Ben Kyle - All Will Be Well [edit]

Saw this Irish-born singer/songwriter at a house concert in Northfield back in 2012. His new work got on my radar via a Kickstarter he did to record an album of his father's songs. I was consistently moved by this one. Plus, I wanted to end on a hopeful note. ​