Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Who ever would have imagined? Somehow you find yourself in, of all places, Indiana, in a town called Richmond, just over the Ohio line, about midway between Indianapolis and Louisville. You’re heading to breakfast at a downtown cafe and notice a large mural, about two stories high, of a 1920s-vintage blues musician carrying his guitar [...]
Filed under: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, death, Indiana, Music, Three chords and the truth, Travels | Leave a Comment
Tags: "Cradle of Recorded Jazz", "Lawnmower Capital of the World", Alberta Hunter, Bill Bill Broonzy, Bix Beiderbecke, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bloomington, blues, Charley Patton, early country music, Gene Autry, Gennett Records, Hoagy Carmichael, Hoosier State, Indiana, Ku Klux Klan, Lawrence Welk, Music, Starr Piano Company, Uncle Dave Macon
Sleepless nights
Ray Davies wrote “I Go to Sleep” for the Kinks, years before he fell in love with the lead singer of The Pretenders. Here’s the version by Chrissie Hynde…They haven’t been together for a long time…Are they able to sleep at night now? Or do they still hear this song in their heads, in the [...]
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Tags: Chrissie Hynde, love, Music, Ray Davies, The Kinks, The Pretenders
True or false? Nicholas DiGiovanni likes ukulele music. True, believe it or not. Earlier this summer I found myself on the lower East Side of Manhattan in a cozy little venue called Googie’s for an evening of ukulele music, including a great performance by Emmy-award winner J. Walter Hawkes, a friend I met early this [...]
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Tags: J. Walter Hawkes, lower East Side, Music, New York City music clubs, ukulele, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Imagine…
Imagine if the Beatles had stayed together just a few more years…if they had recorded just one more album…What early (1970-1975) post-Beatles songs might have appeared on that fantasy Beatles album? That was the theme of an article I read in some British newspaper a few months back. The writer, Neil McCormick of the Guardian, [...]
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Tags: Beatles, Beatles Albums, Beatles songs, George Harrison, John Lennon, Music, Paul McCartney, pop music, Ringo Starr, rock and roll, Saturday Nightr Live
Her voice sounds like music to my ears. So why was I surprised by this latest revelation about the amazing Sarah Palin? One of the all-time classic music videos shows a very young Aretha Franklin, circa late 1960s, as she sings “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.” Watch — and enjoy — the video. But watch Aretha’s lips as she [...]
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Tags: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T", Aretha Franklin, Humor, Music, Sarah Palin, soul music
“Tell-Tale Signs”
My son and I will head up the New York State Thruway in a few weeks to Saratoga Springs — for a concert featuring Bob Dylan and the Levon Helm Band! As we bow our heads and tip our hats while passing Woodstock and Saugerties, I bet we will be listening to Dylan and the [...]
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Tags: Bob Dylan, Dylan, Music
