Rainy Days

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I love rainy days. I love lying in bed and listening to the rain on the skylights. When I was a child, we would visit our grandparents in North Carolina and the rain would make the most beautiful music on their old tin roof. I’ve always been enchanted with days like these. The weight of the air, the dampness on our skin, how we can get caught in it and sometimes even make memories that will last forever.

At the studio now we make Americanos and pull up our rainy day playlist, the sounds that echo through Ann Street Studio on days just like today in New York. The music fills my soul when I look out the window at the beautiful simplicity of water falling and washing away all our yesterdays.

 In the studio, these are a few of my favorite things: Restoration Hardware Gramophone / Nest three-wick candle in Grapefruit / Peter Lindbergh Images of Women / Vogue The Editor’s Eye / Pineapple glass lamp from Savannah, GA (Pineapples represent hospitality!) / View Camera (for things like THIS) / GRACE: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue / Leather Journal from Florence / Book magnifying glass from a visit to the FRICK / Handmade pottery coffee mug from here in the East Village / Irving Penn’s Passage

I hope you enjoy our list and please, we would love recommendations of songs to add! As in life, this list should forever be evolving… here’s to rainy days.

42 thoughts on “Rainy Days”

  3. Such a beautiful space and setup! Couldn’t be happier for you guys and your move into the new studio! Your playlist is perfection for rainy days… some of my favorites are included in here!

    Here are some more of my rainy day favorites that I think you would enjoy:

    Depth Over Distance – Ben Howard
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7NB_Fm7JR8

    Wooden Chair – Angus and Julia Stone
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqDT7mZVEq8

    Beyond This Moment – Patrick O’ Hearn
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyniMKRy_gY

    We Don’t Eat – James Vincent McMarrow
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3HRMO7nZg

    Dream – Priscilla Ahn
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKfDwChOoHI

    Mango Tree – Angus and Julia Stone
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNQX9JAeXl4

    Youth – Daughter
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEpMj-tqixs

    Promise – Ben Howard
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjg0Ip7TzzM

    Babylon – David Gray
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANzKrSuUblc

    Tonight – Lykke Li
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlpgNsJsNKI&NR=1

    Just some of my favorites on days like today… Hope you enjoy!

  4. Your playlist is great, thanks for sharing. On my “un peu de douceur” list (“a bit of softness” would you say in English?) is also:
    – ‘Brandy Alexander’ by Feist
    – A few songs by Amos Lee
    – A few songs by Grant Lee Buffalo or Grant Lee Phillips
    – ‘Walk away’ and ‘Waiting on an angel’ by Ben Harper
    – ‘With my own two hands’ by jack Johnson and Ben Harper
    – ‘While we wait’ by Jack Johnson
    – ‘Don’t miss you at all’ and ‘Come away with me’ by Norah Jones
    Here!
    Thank you for all the beauty you share on your blog.
    Aude (in Paris)

  8. Love this, and all your downright dreamy photos and posts. I’ve been obsessed with Wild Belle lately–maybe “Another Girl” for a rainy day? And “Concrete Wall” by Zee Avi… I agree with Aude about Feist’s “Brandy Alexander,” and “Arms of a Woman” by Amos Lee is always swoon-worthy. xx

  9. What don’t I adore about this? Part of why I haven’t left Portland is because I love the rain so much. There is just something so comforting and refreshing about it. To me, days feel more real when there is a bit of rain in them…

  11. LOVE that cinemagraph! Super cozy, Jamie. Making me long for a rainy Saturday to stay inside now. I agree with some Zee Avi, Nina Simone, Lykke Li, Feist, Harry Connick Jr…

  13. I definitely need to check these songs out! Thank you for sharing. And that cinema graph…how I wish my window would look that lovely. 😉

    Here are some songs I love to listen to when I’m working: “To Build a Home” by Cinematic Orchestra; Jack&White is a nice folk/pop-esque duo to listen to, too; Johnnyswim’s EP Heart Beat…

  15. I would recommend songs like: dream a little dream of me with Emilia Mitiku
    – nat king coles song Candy – Michael Buble cover on Frank Sinatra the way you look to night

    🙂

  17. Every time we say goodbye -Ray Charles
    Autumn in New York -Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    April in Paris- Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    Autumn Leaves- Nat King Cole

    1. Thanks for the suggestions! I couldn’t find Ray Charles but I got Every time we say goodbye on there and April in Paris, one of my personal favs as well. The other two I’m saving for an autumn soundtrack! Thanks!

  18. equally mesmerized by your choices and photograph. Good call with the David Gray, so soothing. Thank you for putting this into the universe! Jessica, OceanViolet.com

  19. I am in the Cayman Islands and can partly relate to the buckets of rain we’ve been getting lately. Your playlist is magical, thank you.
    deliciouslycomplicated.blogspot.com

  22. Jamie, LOVE this gramophone. Do you know if it works with iPods as well or just iPhone? My additions to your rainy day playlists would be Skip James’s song “Devil Got My Woman” (or anything of his) and Nick Drake’s record, “Pink Moon.”

  26. How about “Red Rain” – Peter Gabriel; “Rain” -The Cult; “Rain in the summertime” – The Alarm; and if you’re feeling really adventurous: “Singing in the rain” – (many artist over the years, but most notably) – Gene Kelly 🙂

  27. Love the choice Jamie, thank you. Rain (as usual) in Seattle as well, but this photo/music is a great ‘lift up’ for me (even while on lunch break from work).

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