Music

You can go on the rest of that fishing trip with the incomparable Taj Mahal on a new CD collection from Music for Little People called 20 Great Kids Songs.

That’s Wai Lana, the creator of a number of yoga CDs and DVDs for children and their parents. This soothing excerpt is from a CD called Little Yogi’s Daydream.

That’s the opening for Erik Satie’s first Gymnopidie for piano. It was a very experimental piece to have written at the time, during the late 1800s, though it was one of the tamer things that Monsieur Satie composed during his career at the front of the avant guard in France.

That’s Townes van Zandt with a chorus from “Hey Willy Boy” — a song about the seasons that he wrote for his son, Will — from a CD called Daddies Sing Good Night.

Walt Kelly was one of the masters of American nonsense. His much loved, hilariously cryptic Pogo comic strip first appeared in 1949 and was in American papers even after Kelly’s death in 1973.