Music
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Weekend Music Ok, let me explain why I'm posting this very gloomy song, which is hardly what one would expect for something referred to as "weekend music." It's mainly because the title, which is also the chorus, has been floating around in my head since I posted the dream of the young lady in the…
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Weekend Music Following on last week's Bert Jansch post, this modest little track is probably my favorite of Pentangle's work. I love the little electric guitar break. While looking for information on the song, I ran across a review which said that John Renbourn, the other guitarist in the group, is the singer. I…
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I didn't notice that John Lennon's birthday was a few days ago (Oct. 9). He would have been 71 (!). I became aware of it only because I happened across this review of a new Lennon biography. I've always been puzzled by those people who idolized the Beatles and Lennon in particular. The author of this…
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Weekend Music Call this a tribute and memorial to Bert Jansch, who died of cancer on Wednesday. I first encountered his name in connection with Donovan, having read somewhere that Donovan's songs "Bert's Blues" and "House of Jansch" were references to a mysterious guitar genius named Bert Jansch. I didn't hear him until a couple…
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Weekend Music A couple of Sundays ago I went to a concert by the Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas. The first piece was the Prelude No. 1 of Heitor Villa-Lobos. I'm hoping that most people who read this blog are not overly familiar with it. It's so widely played that I suspect classical guitar fans…
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Weekend Music Nobody like him. Never was, never will be. I'm not a hard-core jazz fan, but somehow over the years I've acquired more recordings by him than of any other non-classical artist. Today is his birthday. This is from my favorite period, between the beautiful but more conventional early and the completely unstructured (as…
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Seventy-seven! This is one of his less well-known songs, and an old favorite of mine. It's on Songs From A Room, the first of his albums I ever heard. I knew the song "Suzanne" from recordings by others and wasn't crazy about it, but Songs From A Room made me a convert. Mike Wright, wherever you are,…
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My local paper has a daily "Today in History" feature which includes a list of famous people whose birthdays fall on the day. I read it frequently, I think with a somewhat morbid fascination, bothering my wife with news items such as "Oh look, this actress who was a beautiful girl in that movie is…
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Weekend Music Yes, this is the song I had originally intended to post last week. I had a strange experience with it a couple of weekends ago. It was Sunday morning, and I had an online "radio" program playing. This song came on, and although I had heard it before and liked it, for…
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Weekend Music Every girl crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man. The music and the dance don't quite fit. To me they're close enough to be a lot of fun. Others may find it annoying. (Hat tip to Michael Potemra of National Review.) I had another song in mind to post tonight, a very beautiful song, full…
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