Music
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Weekend Music I listened to Tom Waits Nighthawks at the Diner for the first time a couple of days ago. He performs this story–it's not exactly a song, though it has a musical accompaniment, and I noticed that he didn't write it, which led me to discover that it was once something of a hit for…
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Weekend Music Note: I'm posting this early because I'll be offline Friday and most of Saturday. Somewhere around 1981 or 1982, at an outdoor arts festival in Huntsville (Alabama), I saw a troupe of dancers perform to this music. Not surprisingly, I don't remember anything about the dance, but the music was so great that…
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Sally Thomas making good use of GarageBand. (GarageBand is a sound recording/editing program.) (p.s. I will be offline until Saturday.)
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Janet sent me this link with the observation that "he sounds more orthodox than I thought he would." Indeed he does. I'm not the biggest U2 fan, though what I like of their music I like a lot, and have assumed for a long time that their much-reported Christianity didn't amount to very much any…
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Weekend Music http://www.youtube.com/e/nm3dwZaveD0 http://www.youtube.com/e/dIw9waVI-m8 (Thanks to Janet for reminding me of this show.)
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Weekend Music I've never heard much rap/hip-hop that I like. But considering all the wonderful music made by black Americans for the past hundred years or so, I thought there must be some, and so for years now I've had an eye, or rather an ear, out for it. I read somewhere that A Tribe…
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Weekend Music Sad to say, I had never heard of this Gary Moore (older folks may remember a long-ago TV personality name Garry Moore) until I saw news stories a week or so ago saying that he had died. Then Anja posted this clip on Facebook and I saw that he was a really fine…
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Weekend Music A conversation on Facebook a few days ago reminded me of the sole and self-titled album by former King Crimson members Ian Macdonald and Michael Giles, released in 1970. I am one of the few people who bought it, even though I had not been a King Crimson fan. Now I can’t remember…
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Weekend Music One of the master’s less well-known but most engaging songs. I don’t know whether he invented the word “coolerator” or not, but it’s a great word. http://www.youtube.com/e/uuM2FTq5f1o I find myself hoping that Pierre and the mademoiselle are still alive and still married somewhere in east Louisiana, and that they still get up…
Light On Dark Water 