Welcome to Frank Edwin's 3/13/2022 Salad🥗Bar 101 weekly inclusive feast where we invite you to Chow Down on a fresh variety of tasty musical artist cuisine. Romaine Calm - Turnip the Beet - Find Inner Peas.
The 101 has just a small sampling of the artists worldwide that have music we enjoy sharing. We literally can't keep up with the number of new songs released weekly and new to us artists we are discovering on a daily basis from a plethora of sources.
There are currently over 150 songs waiting to debut on the chart. To facilitate the opportunity of having more songs join the buffet we are delighted to give 6 songs each week the special designation of #1 Salad🥗Song.
#1 Salad🥗Song: Yani Mo - Life U Choose
“The music industry is not always the most comfortable place for openly queer Black artists… And though even the biggest queer Black artists still have to deal with vile homophobia in the industry, LGBTQ+ musicians are far from a new phenomenon in the legacy of Black music and have contributed to the creation of some of the best musical offerings the world has ever known.
Lithonia, Georgia native/Atlanta-based singer-songwriter, emcee and poet, Yani Mo, has been building a solid reputation for years with her brand of music she describes as “CountryQueerSoul,” because as she described to Voyage ATL, “it’s southern, it’s soulful, and it doesn’t fit into any binary.” Yani Mo says her brand of music is not just about sexuality, but about fluidity in a general sense, and rejecting the confines of the binary or being placed in a box…
Part line dance anthem, part self-love affirmation, “Life U Choose” is Yani Mo creating the type of jam that has helped her build fanfare in the indie Atlanta music community since her debut EP, Space & Simplicity, Pt. 1 dropped in 2016.” By Donney Rose and Willis Polk for The North Star
It is a joy to place a cherry tomato on top of “Life U Choose” giving it the special designation as a #1 Salad🥗Song in its 11th week on the chart.
Bandcamp:
yanimo.bandcamp.com/#1 Salad🥗Song: Ryan Cassata - C'mon Sarah, It's Great To Be 8
We congratulate award-winning singer-songwriter, actor, performer, writer, LGBTQ activist and motivational speaker Ryan Cassata (he/him) on his first Salad🥗Bowl in honour of “C'mon Sarah, It's Great To Be 8” being given the designation of a #1 Salad🥗Song in its 10th week on the chart.
“This song is about my anxiety/panic disorder. It starts at 8 years old having a panic attack on my birthday at school. It then goes on to my passion for my music and the anxiety that comes along with wanting to be successful. It goes into being 15 years old and having a panic attack while watching myself on the Larry King Live Show at summer camp. It’s about the overwhelming feelings of everyone knowing who I am, and coming out as trans to everyone at once. It also goes into my addiction. I now have 7 years sober.
It’s about not fitting in with my fellows, it’s about being different and knowing I am different. It’s about trying to find a place. It’s about working really hard without a break.
The song is about where I came from and the feeling of gratitude for where I am now. My anxiety disorder was not something I could talk about openly until I learned how to manage it in a healthy way.” – Ryan Cassata
Website:
www.RyanCassata.com#1 Salad🥗Song: Ryan Lill - Ocean
Charleston singer-songwriter Ryan Lill’s single, “Ocean,” uses the ocean as a metaphor for fighting onward when you feel alone or ostracized…
Lill said that the song was written very intentionally.
“I’d kind of focused my career more on pop recently,” he said, “But this song just kind of came to me. I typically don’t watch TV, but I’d started watching Outer Banks, which is filmed here in town. And, I just thought to myself that some of the things happening on the show are indicative of how my life was. I didn’t know how to really fit in anywhere.”
“I feel like the ocean is beautiful, but it can kill you,” he said. “So I took some time and started writing about my experience of nobody wanting you in this town, but you know you’re meant for something different, so you gotta ride the wave; you got to keep your head above the undertow. And, that just formed into ‘Ocean.’ I feel like I knew exactly what I wanted to say when I sat down, and it feels good. It feels very authentic.”…
“I think that instead of having this idea of going into the studio to write something that is specifically radio friendly, or going into the studio to write something that reaches just one specific demographic—I’m starting to write music that I want to hear. I feel like, now, I’m starting to write for my own voice; there’s been this power shift in my life where I feel like I’m making what I wish somebody would have written that I could hear when I was growing up as a gay kid in South Carolina.”
We are pleased to present Ryan with his first Salad🥗Bowl to celebrate “Ocean” becoming a #1 Salad🥗Song in its 10th week on the chart.
Website:
www.ryanlillmusic.com/#1 Salad🥗Song: Shimi Goodman - Feeling Good
London based performer, Shimi Goodman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Besides his numerous stage work Shimi works closely with his partner Chris Hamilton who is an award-winning pianist, composer and lyricist and writes all of Shimi's original songs. As well as having their own respective shows Shimi and Chris together perform around the world as PIANO & TENOR.
We are tickled the colors of the rainbow to give Shimi his first Salad🥗Bowl as his cover of “Feeling Good” becomes a #1 Salad🥗Song in its 12th week on the chart.
Website:
www.shimigoodman.com/#1 Salad🥗Song: Joseph Reuben - Life In Colour
Film composer turned singer-songwriter, Joseph Reuben, has his first #1 Salad🥗Song “Life in Colour” from his EP, Welcome to Dreamland — a maximalist ode to the golden Hollywood era that inspired him to leave his religious upbringing in London and pursue a career in the arts in New York years ago.
After a sudden health emergency precluded Reuben’s singing career as a teenager, he turned to scoring film, TV, and theater. He was inspired by the ruminative works of Bernard Hermann and Hans Zimmer. At age 28, Reuben became the first person to perform an original composition at Windsor Castle in centuries. Reuben founded the production company, Cinemax Studios, and went on to produce and collaborate behind the console with studio luminaries such as Nabil (The Weeknd, Billie Eilish).
With his voice fully healed, Reuben is returning to his main objective: singing and producing his own music. But with over a decade on the other side of the industry — and on the other side of the world, since he’s been living in his native London during the pandemic — Reuben’s riff on the timeless ideal of California-as-Promised-Land is full of bold, psychological nuance. By Sarah Grant for SPIN
Joseph says, “‘Life In Colour’ is about wanting to experience the full cinematic version of life and romance. I wanted to describe the feelings I got as a kid watching movies and wanting to live in them. It’s about searching for a great, cinematic romance only seen and described in films. Hence the overly romantic and expressive nature of the lyrics.
It’s wanting to feel what everyone talked about as I was growing up, but I never felt anything. I felt very alone in not feeling the way others did. Maybe I was expecting to feel too much, too big a feeling? So I just wrote about truly yearning to feel something.”
Website:
www.josephreuben.com/#1 Salad🥗Song: Shanti Lashae - When You Love Me
In her 7th week on the chart we are delighted to give Worship Musician Drummer, Guitarist, Singer / Songwriter Shanti Lashae her first Salad🥗Bowl in honour of “When You love Me” becoming a #1 Salad🥗Song.
Shanti shares, “My music is expressive and has so much context woven into its depths. As this artist’s music career begins to flourish there was never a time when a love for good music did not exist. Shanti believes that when sharing a story through music it needs to become real for the listeners, as if they were there when what your are expressing happened. Music is connection, freedom, and whatever else you need it to be! Take a journey with me.”
Website:
shantilashae.com/home The BuffetMobile takes us to 1984 to visit our 101 flashback artists Bronski Beat and their ? song “Why” as 16 new or returning artistes contribute their chefs-d'œuvre to the smorgasbord: Toska Bear - Ground Control (ft. Java Bush), Alex the Astronaut - Octopus, Seratones - "Good Day", Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Back to Oz, Cidrais, Gerra G - Entre, thekayetan & Reni Jusis - Pole widzenia, Sandro Cavazza - The Day, Fab The Duo - Somewhere In Delaware, Exquisite Gender - Solve For X, I'm Still Standing played by FLOPPOTRON, Alexandre Godfroid - Aujourd'hui, ailleurs, & João Rosa - Amor Que Edifica.
The 101: Bronski Beat - Why ?
2 -- Cassidy Haley - WHITE NOISE
3 (12) Jack O’Rourke - Sea Swimming
4 (13) Kaine Francesco | Turn to Grey
5 (14) The Moon Shells: Come Over To The Table
6 (8) Honey Cellar - Celebration Song
7 (45) MEUTE - Intentional Dweeb // Live at Elbphilharmonie Sessions
8 (17) Paul Diello - What It Is To Love
9 (95) Afro Sensei - Elephant
10 (15) Anastasia Jane - Clara
11 (16) Lilli Lewis - My American Heart
12 (22) Dom Guyot - Time
13 (25) MasonRoseGray - Blink Of An Eye
14 (18) Daisy the Great - Glitter
15 (19) Cody Belew - Crimes
16 (21) Gabe Furtado - Flowers
17 (23) Kenna · Outliers
18 (24) Pierré André - La couleur de ma peau
19 (26) Grace Petrie - Storm to Weather
20 (27) Rufus Wainwright - Secret Sister (ACLU Gala Musical Performance)
21 (29) Tret Fure - Peanut Butter Toast
22 (30) Gravity Noir - In Time
23 (31) Della Mae - Heart of My Home
24 (28) Joy Oladokun - Keeping The Light On
25 (32) Maël Isaac & Elise Pignard - Lay your head down (Keren Ann cover)
26 (34) Sad Daddy - Arkansas Bound
27 (33) JÓRMA - introvert
28 (36) smallpools - migraine
29 (40) Freddy Freeman feat. Stēvi M, Jay Freeman & Adam B. Shapiro · Keep Your Heart Open
30 (39) Trixie Mattel - This Town feat. @shakey Graves
31 (42) Ashanwarrior - Manhatten Sidewalk
32 (37) Vasile Baghiuc - RYTMIKAALI
33 (41) Allan Vermeer - Poupée de cire, poupée de son (France Gall cover)
34 (43) Janis Ian - Better Times Will Come
35 (44) Gray Pop - La Herida
36 (46) Morgan Moats · Joyful
37 (48) Fancy Hagood & Devon Gilfillian - Let Me Be
38 (7) A Great Big World - Glowing
39 (9) BRANDEN & JAMES - Amazing Grace/Up to the Mountain
40 (47) Lily Rose - Every Last One
41 (51) Sinclair - Won't Be Alone
42 (54) The Future Perfect Project: Not What You Pictured
43 (53) Beni Fahr - When I Was A Kid
44 (49) Ben Hazlewood - Undertow
45 (56) Love is Love - LGBTIQ* twins sing along
46 (55) Minute Taker feat. Bright Light Bright Light · After The Rain
47 (52) Oliver Fenelon Chee - If You Want
48 (60) Jeffery Straker - Rock, Paper, Scissors
49 (59) Mothé - Breathe The Air On The Moon
50 (10) Bears in Trees - Heaven Sent is a Coffee Cup
51 (58) Guy Scheiman - Game On
52 (64) sassyhiya - Crayon Potato
53 (75) LA REINE GARCON - Accepte-toi
54 (67) Griffin Matthews, Ledisi, Emma Hunton, Cast of Witness Uganda - Be the Light
55 (35) Kings Elliot - The Outsider
56 (63) Marv & Rindy Ross - That's No Way To Be
57 (62) Anita Gabrielle · The World Shivers (When Love Is Gone)
58 (38) Frankmusik · Satellite
59 (65) Marchi · Gennaio
60 (71) Rascal Miles - Asylum
61 (68) Syd, Smino - Right Track
62 (72) Lorelei Roux · Ignite Me
63 (69) P.R2B - Rayons Gamma
64 (77) Micky Shiloah - Love (Confidential)
65 (83) Jaimee Harris - Keep Me On Your Mind
66 (88) Séa Byrne · Blue Skies (Pacifico ’22 Mix)
67 🥗 Toska Bear - Ground Control (ft. Java Bush)
68 (84) Yavin · I Don't Really Know What's Going On.
69 (76) Oceanator - Bad Brain Daze
70 (88) alex - Confrontations
71 (81) Freddie Lewis · A Bookshop In Toronto
72 (80) Noah Vela - I wanna live/to the boy who saved my life
73 (89) anri abernathy - companionship
🌈 74 Jake Blount - You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark
75 (70) PEYTON: Hard Times
76 🥗 Alex the Astronaut - Octopus
77 🥗 Seratones - "Good Day"
🌈 78 Marco Mengoni - Cambia Un Uomo
79 🥗 Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Back to Oz
80 🥗 Cidrais, Gerra G - Entre
81 🥗 thekayetan & Reni Jusis - Pole widzenia
🌈 82 ÖZLEM feat. Laura Borealis - Electric Ladyland
83 🥗 Sandro Cavazza - The Days
84 🥗 Fab The Duo - Somewhere In Delaware (Acoustic)
85 🥗 Exquisite Gender - Solve For X
86 (79) G.P. Ekpendu - When I'm Older
🌈 87 Oscar Zia - Nyårsvals
88 🥗 I'm Still Standing played by FLOPPOTRON
89 🥗 Alexandre Godfroid - Aujourd'hui, ailleurs
90 🥗 João Rosa - Amor Que Edifica (Pagode LGBT+)
91 -- Caville - Plan B
🌈 92 Yasmin Williams l Sunshowers
🌈 93 Althea Talbot-Howard: Rievaulx: A Study in Memory - In Arch Form for Double Reed Quartet / Needleman, Rothman, Zdybel-Nam
94 (50) Venn Smyth - Come January Snow
95 (57) Hayden Joseph - Fallin’
96 (61) The Overtones - A Night To Remember
97 (66) Burçak x Ooostblok - Alkış
98 (73) Johnny Schaefer - While You Are Right in Front of Me
🌈 99 Sean O'Reilly - Blue | Joni Mitchell Harp and Vocal Cover
100 (93) mxmtoon - mona lisa
🥗 = New Salad Song
🌈 = Previous #1 Salad🥗Song
Current Salad🥗Bar 101 YouTube Playlist:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbC5ZHK6WIg1rmysVyvbAEdu39CtzuLx The Salad Bar Facebook page is where we highlight individual chart artists and songs and feature a Plethora of other goodies throughout the week including artist flashbacks in the BuffetMobile, live song and concert video links, behind the scenes videos, interviews, themed playlist links, and a whole lot more:
www.facebook.com/SaladBarTop100/?view_public_for=108421744405514Here’s where all the Salad🥗Bar 101 charts live along with other themed playlists:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCoWZG2er38KS4_ktBpF3org/playlists?view_as=subscriberCompanion Salad🥗Bar 101 Spotify & Tidal Playlists:
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