Music
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…maybe this is the best version of the Samson and Delilah song. Except maybe that it's too short
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Weekend Music The Blasters were active in the early to mid-1980s. There was something of a fashion then for a 1950s-style look and sound, and they were part of it, but they weren't just a novelty. "Rockabilly" would be the closest one-word description of their sound, but it was more varied than that. "Roots rock"…
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Weekend Music This is not the kind of music I generally listen to–high-speed more-or-less-punk rock, with a ska touch–and when I do listen to it, a few songs at a time are enough. It may not be to the taste of most people who read this blog, either, but bear with me–there's an interesting story…
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Weekend Music From the time I heard it as a teenager I've always thought this early British Invasion song had a beautiful tune, and am sort of pleased that guitar master Pat Metheny apparently thinks so too. And if you don't remember or never heard the original, or just would like to hear it…
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Flowering plants bred for cooler climates tend to get confused here, when we can have temperatures anywhere from freezing to 70+F/20+C. This rose is an example. I just noticed yesterday that it was blooming. Appropriate, ain't it? It's amazing that it blooms at all, because it doesn't get the special care that roses apparently need…
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Weekend Music Finally, something a bit more seasonally appropriate. Not Advent-specific, obviously, but at least on the general subject. My friend Robert has been praising a collection of Christmas songs by Kathleen Battle, and it was while listening to one of them that I ran across this. Even though Christmas is only three days away,…
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Weekend Music The past couple of weeks have seen the passing of these two musicians who did much to broaden the horizons of music lovers in the 1950s and 1960s. Even people who didn't care much for jazz owned The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out. Everybody knows "Take Five" (actually written by Paul Desmond, the…
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Good post for her feast day at The Three Prayers, with a couple of songs/hymns that you really should hear.
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Weekend Music I apologize for this. I really should post something Advent-related, and had thought I would look for something of that sort. But I haven't had time or mental space. And for reasons entirely unknown to me I've been wanting all day, starting shortly after I got out of bed, to hear Ella Fitzgerald…
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Weekend Music This is a catchy, slightly noisy pop song (using "pop" in the broad sense, without trying to pin it to any of the myriad sub-genres of pop/rock–emo? post-punk? whatever). It was a free download from eMusic quite a while back, like maybe eight years or so. I liked it but never investigated the…
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