Tom Chapin: You Know, for Kids!

For anyone out there with kids, or with friends with kids, I can't recommend highly enough the new disc by Tom Chapin, "Some Assembly Required." Baby Z. loves it so far, and the lyrics are clever enough that neither Alma nor myself have gone nuts (yet). It's kinda bluegrass, kinda goofy but mostly really creative, with songs like "Planet Bruno" (a dramatic nod to "Space Oddity") and "Brown Gold," a song about a compost pile). It's silly fun.