Music
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You can listen to the entire new GW/Dave Rawlings album on NPR right now. I'm not sure how long these "First Listen" features remain available. I have two of her (their) albums, Time (The Revelator) and Revival, and while each has a few songs I'm unenthusiastic about, the rest are terrific.
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Weekend Music The local paper has a daily list of famous people whose birthday is on that day. Today happens to be Colin Blumstone's: he's 66 (!). If I'm not mistaken, he was the lead singer on this song, which I liked at least as much as anything by the Beatles when I was in…
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If you happen to need one, you couldn't do much better than this. (Hat tip to Robert.) I wouldn't want to give you the idea that there are a lot of people like this just hanging out in New Orleans: the lady is a professional musician. But man, what a gift for the tourists.
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Weekend Music Having been reminded of this song, I looked for it on YouTube. If memory serves, Daniel Nichols gave me his copy of the album (Big Harvest) because he didn’t care for it. I had never heard of the artist and after a couple of hearings decided it was a real overlooked gem. Apparently…
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Weekend Music Trying to drink from the fire hose of inexpensive music over the past ten years or so inevitably causes me to give less attention to a lot of music that really deserves more. One instance is the self-titled first album by the Derek Trucks Band. I played it a few times when I…
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Weekend Music Another find from either the eMusic or Amazon daily free tracks. It has become pretty predictable that almost any introspective melancholy singer-songwriter will be compared to Nick Drake. In my experience, the comparison is not generally particularly illuminating: the net is cast too wide, because Drake was so distinctive, musically and lyrically and…
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I mentioned that I had been out of town for a couple of days. On Sunday my wife and I went to St. Joseph’s Abbey (Benedictine) and Seminary in Covington, Louisiana, for a performance by the NOVA (New Orleans Vocal Arts) Chorale, in which my daughter Clare sings. Covington is across Lake Ponchartrain from New…
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Weekend Music I give you permission to laugh at me for this one. I can't really defend it artistically, though I won't apologize for liking the first thirty or forty seconds. Let me explain why I like it so much: Somewhere back in the 1980s, when our children were small, my wife and I discovered…
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Here’s something a little different in the Dylan birthday tribute line: his Top 10 Most Overlooked Songs. That’s in the opinion of one guy, so naturally no other Dylan fan in the whole wide world will agree with every choice. I have to admit that I haven’t heard them all, and one or two I don’t…
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Weekend Music Both eMusic and Amazon offer a free mp3 every day, frequently from some artist I’ve never heard of. That comes out to about 60 tracks a month, and for a while I tried to hear them all. I had to give that up because there were just too many of them. But I…
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