Fantastic.
I’m really getting into an electronic music duo originating from Bellingham, Washington ➙ Odesza.
Check this tune remixed with vocals from Bettye LaVette’s 1965 hit song “Let Me Down Easy“.
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Here’s how they created that masterpiece.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. New interview with Bettye Lavette.
I had a PUNK stage.
It was ME New Year’s Even crashing off the dance floor, knocking down the drums at the Calgarian Hotel. The pogo dancing was fierce.
I threw up in a Volkswagen Beetle — woke up in a closet atop all the winter boots.
CBGB is a 2013 film that follows the story of Hilly Kristal‘s New York club from its concept as a venue for Country, Bluegrass and Blues (CBGB) to what it ultimately became: the birthplace of underground rock ‘n’ roll and punk.
Opened 1973, the dive became a famed venue of punk rock and new wave bands like the Ramones, Television, Patti Smith Group, Blondie, and Talking Heads.
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From the early 1980s onward, CBGB was known for hardcore punk. …
The club closed upon its final concert, played by Patti Smith, on October 15, 2006. …
CBGB’s two rules were that a band must move its own equipment and play mostly original songs …
In 1978, new wave songwriter Elvis Costello would open shows for The Voidoids, while The Police played at CBGB for their first American gigs. …
Hilly Kristal died from complications of lung cancer on August 28, 2007. …
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This was one of Alan Rickman’s last films. He died unexpectedly of pancreatic cancer age-69.
OMFUG stands for Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers.
Jain (Jeanne Louise Galice) is a French singer-songwriter and musician. …
A music video for the single “Makeba” was released to Jain’s official YouTube channel on 30 November 2016. The music video was nominated for Best Music Video at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018 …
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The song references Miriam Makeba also known as “Mama Africa”, a South African singer and activist.
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Like most people my age, I’m a big fan of James Taylor.
My favourite is “Long Ago and Far Away“.
In 2020 he published an audio/music autobiography of his first 21 years:
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In an era of many folk singer / songwriters, James got lucky when a friend gave a demo tape to Peter Asher, head for the Beatles‘ newly formed label Apple Records.
Paul McCartney and George Harrison liked his voice. Told Asher to sign him to the label.
James recorded his 1st album 1968 at Trident Studios, at the same time the Beatles were recording The White Album.
Though born into a privileged (dysfunctional) family, James struggled with depression and drug addiction.
The big breakthrough was 1970 with “Fire and Rain“.
“Fire and Rain” was inspired by the suicide of Suzanne Schnerr, a childhood friend, and James’ experiences with drug addiction and fame:
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I’d see you again
Carole King wrote You’ve Got a Friend” as a reaction to that line. It was his first #1 hit 1971.
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Click PLAY or watch You’ve Got A Friend on YouTube.
A big fan of James Taylor in my youth, the song that means most to me many years later is Long Ago and Far Away.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. He was age-23 in 1971.
On the Mud Slide Slim album version Joni Mitchell sings background vocals and Carole King plays piano.
Machine Gun Kelly — play this when I’m gone — inspired Jake Frew’s 2020 pandemic video.
Jake Frew is a master video creator. Right now he’s on a road trip to meet and collaborate with other video editors he admires.
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I loved a song by Girl in Red, the indie pop music project of Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven Ringheim. The music dictated everything I put into this fan video.
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And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda is the best anti-war song I know. Pete Seeger called it “one of the world’s greatest songs.”
Remind yourself that old men of privilege and power like Putin send young men to needless deaths.
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It was written by Scottish-Australian Eric Bogle in 1969.
I somehow got hooked on this hit from 2002. I particularly like this LIVE version.
Sophie Ellis Bextor is SO beautiful.
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Everyone loves Dolly Parton.
And when James Patterson asked if she’d be interested in working together on a book — she was.
If you get the audio book, know that Dolly reads the character of Ruthanna Ryder, a retired country legend who sounds an awful lot like Dolly Parton today.
That said, if you don’t like audio books with multiple readers, you might find this one annoying.
AnnieLee Keyes is the super talented young woman who runs to Nashville with dreams of being the next star.
And things start falling into place.
However, AnnieLee has a dark and secret past. It’s starting to catch up to her.
Dolly has many young fans. There is some profanity, violence and sex in this novel, but far less than any other Patterson book, I reckon.
In conjunction, Dolly released an album of the same name.
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