Music
“To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.” –Pete Seeger I hope Mr. Seeger won’t mind my use of his photo and wonderful words. It just seemed fitting today. Aren’t we [...]
Anything I might have planned to say has been trumped by the devastating earthquake in Japan. But as I can’t really add anything new, I’ll leave that to the journalists already on it. I will add that I was very, very moved while watching the “home” videos taken during the shaker. Too close to home. [...]
I posted a link on FB a few days ago to a video I happen to love. This is Rob Thomas, one of my favorite entertainers, and the song is “Someday” (From Cradlesong, Sept 2009.) It’s a feel-good tune about hope for a better future. The video depicts a bunch of variously angry, sad, and [...]
We don’t subscribe to HBO. Cable is expensive enough without piling on premium channels – we are already on the highest tier, I believe. Anyway, as luck would have it, last weekend was “open” for all the premiums, and lo and behold, what was on but the 25th Anniversary of the Rock N’ Roll Hall [...]
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OMG! I was standing at the check out this morning with a basketful of stuff we forgot to get yesterday, and there it was: my favorite yearly issue of PEOPLE Magazine, flaunting the face of this year’s SEXIEST MAN ALIVE (hence it being my favorite issue…) and who else could it possibly be but JOHNNY [...]
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I am one of Pavlov’s pups when it comes to this song by Edwin McCain. “I’ll Be” (see below) and “I Could Not Ask For More” set standards for romance in popular music. Read (and hear!) more about this soulful troubadour at his website. Turn up (or down, as the case may be) your speakers [...]
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Not many years back, you couldn’t find a positive word about “Jacko” in the media. Why, then, the outpouring of love and grief, now that the King is dead? Suddenly, this once much-demonized individual is, instead, deified, mourned, and remembered for his best days instead of his worst. And that’s the point.
Okay, that was sort of a lame title. But there’s a reason. Stay tuned. November 7th finds us celebrating the birthday of one of my favorite recording artists, songwriters, painters… Joni Mitchell turned 65 today but somehow I doubt she rushed to file for Social Security benefits. Parts of the title, of course, are lyrics [...]
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Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr., was born in Sabine Pass, Texas, on this day in 1930. His career span reminds me of a bottle rocket; once lit, it soared quickly skyward and then extinguished at the height of its brilliance, leaving stunned watchers behind. J.P. got his start as a deejay in Beaumont, Texas, establishing a [...]
Continue reading about October 24: Chantilly Lace an’ a Pretty Face
