New Year's Resolution Music Jam

Back when President Lieberman and President Bad Nelson vetoed real health care reform and instead insisted on a mandated giveaway to the insurance industry, I sat down and listened to the entire box set, Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, the Atlantic Recordings, from start to finish. As you can imagine, it helped my mood immensely.

It made me realize that I haven’t been taking enough time to just sit down and listen to music of late.

I resolved to change that this year–to take more time for both recorded and live music.

So help me keep my New Year’s resolution. What have you been listening to of late–both new and old–that has really rocked your soul? What new bands have been busy making great music while I’ve been buried in a sometimes futile fight against DC culture?

And Happy New Year!

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  1. Leen says:

    Thanks you EW. And a Happy New Year to you and yours. Aretha one of my favorites of all times. Just wish she could feel it a bit more.”g” Knocks a persons socks off

    Love music but have never been a devotee of anyone in particular. The only albums I have ever bought were Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Aretha, Al Green, Cat Stevens Tina Turner (that woman works the Kundalini from the tip of her toes out the top of her head into the universal sphere) Whoa does she know how to share her gifts.

    Been with a bunch of 30 somethings so listening to Annie DeFranco, Bill Evans, Matt Costa, Prince Jazzbo…hell I don’t even know who these folks are well except Annie. Just listen

    One thing I have noticed about the 30 somethings that I am around. Their music choices are far more diverse than most of my peer group when we were their ages. They listen to Hendrix, Billie Holdiay, Miles Davis, Annie, Joni, Cat etc. They really mix it up.

    Found myself listening to Perry Como this holiday season. As a kid I loved that guy

  2. posaune says:

    Who knows? we could get some great music, songs, dance, art in the coming years, when folks realize the wasteland that’s come of the hope for change. Jazz reached new heights in Poland in the 1970-80’s. Remember the Wobblies?

  3. Rayne says:

    I’ve resolved to watch more Monty Python flicks with my kids, because there is nothing quite as good as listening to them laugh over outrageous humor. Well, almost as good as listening to my kid recite the entire Black Knight skit by heart. I vow to help him round out his repertoire this year.

    About music…I should listen to more Hawaiian slack key guitar, like Keola Beamer. Until we got out the Christmas CDs I didn’t realize how little I’d listened to this past year. Who couldn’t use a little more island time, even if delivered by MP3 a few minutes at a time?

    By the way, Amazon has free MP3s for download. I’ve added a lot of nice work to my collection of world music this way. Also jazz and blues, too. Think my favorite free sampler CD includes Sara Vaughn, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Definitely could use more of this in 2010.

  4. jenmarie says:

    Been stuck on Natalie Merchant recently. Love her voice and Tiger Lily is a great album. Went looking for my favorite piece performed by her and David Byrne called Let the Mystery Be but it’s gone from YouTube. Here’s a beautiful version of David Byrne (Live Jools Holland, 2004) doing This Must Be The Place.

  5. fatster says:

    Best New Year’s wishes to all. Here’s a nice one, from an astonishing tour, featuring one of my generation’s main troubadors and a band from up yonder. It’s a double feature, and you get a good view of Robbie (Toronto, skdadl!).

    • skdadl says:

      Forever young! That’s us, eh? *cough* That’s a good version — I love the little conference midway through. My blogboss plays a little recent Levon (vocals and picking) now and then on Friday nights, really good stuff I’d never known before. That’s been my main “new” music education over the last couple of years — learning classic blues from teh boss, who usually finds videos that also allow me to play air piano.

      “I got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it’s cold outside, I got the month of May …” It’s a grey overcast day here, but whatever light there is always plays wonderfully in this room, and my cats come to lie in it, sometimes play. The only young ‘un was going scatty chasing the rays, making me laugh, and then I was singing “My Girls” to them. (They freak when I start singing, and if you heard my voice, you’d know why. I have to sing “My Guy” sometimes too, because one is a fearsome male.)

      I learned that song from Otis, but I found this priceless early performance by the Temptations. That’s got me working on my moves — my resolution is to learn to move like the Temptations. I’d put that up at our place but I see embedding is disabled.

      Have people seen “Poo Chi,” from Suzanne last night over at the mothership? Too funny.

      • fatster says:

        Levon is from Arkansas. He grew up in a place called Turkey Scratch, where his family primarily grew cotton. So he, like yrs truly, worked many a long, hard hour down home on the farm.

        • skdadl says:

          Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. That would be a place of myth and legend to me. Arizona and Kentucky are places of myth and legend to me. Everything south of the border states (I think I’ve been to all of them) is a place of myth and legend to me. Yer all movie stars to the rest of the world, y’know …

  6. Neil says:

    I was home sick with a fever for the two days leading up to Christmas and when I wasn’t sleeping, I watched the VH1 Top 100 songs of the ’90s, which was fun to revisit.

    I have a iPod shuffle and an 48 hour play time MP3 collection on iTunes including rap, rock, soul, R&B, jazz and classical. Right now my favorites are west coast rap from the days of Dr Dre and Tupac and Beethoven, which I listened to growing up but didn’t care for then.

    Where did the decade go?

  7. diablesseblu says:

    Barbara Cook, Tina Turner, Jackie Wilson and Jerry Butler.

    Told my daughter recently that I thought turning 60 in May had made me feel old. However, I realized that it was that I no longer follow the current popular music scene and do not recognize new names/bands.

    Could do pretty well until she left for college. I then digitized my 1000 CD collection and have been simply marinating in my music.

    Agree with Leen. Thank goodness my thirty something daughter developed eclectic tastes over the years. She has just married a fine fellow who has a bigger, broader music collection than I do (am light in the jazz arena).

  8. Mary says:

    A lot of what’s already been mentioned. I also like Pink and anything Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits. I never know “new” music but now and then I’ll pull up Pandora and let it pick me some music. “Some day” I’ll follow up on some of what it picks.

    • Leen says:

      Haunting indeed. When my 82 year old WWII Veteran, teamster, Archie Bunker kind of father has repeatedly said that Micheal Jackson was the best music performer of all times. You know Micheal broke down some barriers

  9. cbl2 says:

    gotta go baste those wings – damn!

    been listening to lots of Beatles of late – some vintage solo stuff is showing up on youtube – c’mon, Chuck Berry and John Lennon together for goodness sakes

    but I’ll leave y’all with this, a long time favorite, and a new year’s day staple :D

    Peace Y’all

  10. rosalind says:

    a thread where my comment is actually on topic?! it is a New Year indeed…

    2 new CDs in heavy rotation are from 2 of my fav L.A. singer-songwriters:

    Dave Alvin (of Blasters) collaborated with a group of amazing women picker & fiddlers like Laurie Lewis on the new “Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women”. Kick ass guitar and vocals.

    John Doe (of X) has recorded a new CD with the country group The Sadies “Country Club”. Much as I love the energy of X, the rhythm of these songs really let John’s voice shine.

    While no one can touch the Queen of Soul, do you have any Ann Peebles in your collection? An extremely under-rated singer who was a staple at the great Hi Records. Try “I Can’t Stand The Rain” for a good feel of the Hi Sound. Or if you prefer a little more straight up R&B try “If This Is Heaven”.

    I can go on and on and on…

  11. bell says:

    happy new year emptywheel and everyone here… presently i am listening to terence blanchards ‘choices’ recording… i think it is really great. david sanchez ‘cultural survival’ is also really amazing… i spend more time in music then i do in threads like this.. it always fascinates me how so many folks continue to listen to music from their long ago past.. i guess that is why classic rock survives…. i’m in my 50’s too, but spend almost no time listening to music from when i was a kid… happy new year!

  12. Leen says:

    And even older. Proud Mary…

    Tina shows us how to get older feel more and get even better. Wish they would have kept the camera on her more

    Tina kisses the sky and takes us with her
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCCS5fixC70

    If they could figure out a way to harness Tina and Micks energy on a stage they could shut down the coal burning power plants.

  13. dustbunny44 says:

    Mashups. As my teenaged daughter puts it, they take the boring parts of songs and replace them with parts other songs. Sometimes they can yield something awesome and completely different. It also makes some folks uncomfortable, taking the known and tweaking or yanking it out of the comfort zone.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOGtV-ET9xU&feature=PlayList&p=44149805F8950F77&index=9

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_kI1Gmr9PA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37odz5ZGR1w

    Happy New Year to all.

    • Leen says:

      Tried listened. Different rides the spice of life

      We are the World/USA Africa

      Tina, Willie Nelson, Micheal, Lionel, Kenny Rogers, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Dylan, Bruce, Ray Charles [edited by moderator to remove character that could be confused with html] Harry Bellafonte, Dione,

      We are the World

      We are the children

      There's a choice we're making

      Happy New Years FDL folks

      I believe

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Ufv65L39s&NR=1

    • Leen says:

      Tried could not make the transition. Differences..spice of life

      We are the World
      We are the Children
      There’s a choice we’re making
      We’re saving our own lives
      It’s true we’ll make a better day
      just you and me

      Start giving …

      Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, Tina, Billy Joel, Dione, Harry Bellafonte, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Dylan, Bruce, Kenny Loggins, Micheal Jackson,
      Ray Charles
      oh yeah

      We Are the World
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Ufv65L39s&NR=1

      I am a fool. Tears. I believe
      Happy News Years FDL folks
      Thanks Ew

      • Loo Hoo. says:

        I had my second graders do a multi-cultural performance one year, and ended with We Are the World. It was wonderful.

  14. bobschacht says:

    Great idea for a thread!
    I used to like to listen to the Lion King sound track if I needed something to unwind and help me sleep. I need to get that out again. I’d get all ready for bed, start the CD, turn out the lights, and crawl into bed. By the time “The Circle of Life” comes around for the second time, I’m ready to start snoring.

    Black Church Gospel is often inspiring, too. Many of them have been through worse times than I’ve ever seen, and yet the Black National Anthem is “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which can truly be inspirational– politically as well as spiritually.

    But not just Black music. There’s good ole’ progressive grit and determination political songs like the little known classic by Robin Flowers, “I still ain’t satisfied.” That song could easily be edited to be a progressive theme song regarding our struggles with health care reform.

    Lotsa good stuff in those old union songs, too.

    Bob in AZ

  15. orsonrollsover says:

    I would have to recommend a band called “The Walkmen.” One of the (if not “the”)best rock bands in the US the last few years. Just look up the track “this job is killing me.”

  16. stoat says:

    What new bands have been busy making great music while I’ve been buried in a sometimes futile fight against DC culture?

    LeE HARVeY OsMOND

    LHO is a project headed by canadian tom wilson, a longtime member of blackie and the rodeo kings and other fine bands from canuckistan, also featuring other members of BARK and cowboy junkies, etc.

    the album, a quiet evil, is excellent (you can download it from their site)… but the “loft session” they recorded for siriusxm with only wilson and pedal steel player aaron goldstein is absolutely mesmerizing.

  17. msmolly says:

    All classical, all the time, for me. Since I don’t have a huge collection, I listen to local classical radio or stream one of the best stations online, Minnesota Classical Public Radio. They even have an iPhone app, so I can listen while I ride my bike (in good weather, of course).

    • msmolly says:

      I saw them in concert a couple of years ago. Or at least it was Ravi and a daughter, not sure if there is more than one. A tremendous show!

      On edit: not sure it was Norah. This one played sitar.

      Edit two: not Norah, Anoushka. Teh Google is my friend.

  18. bmaz says:

    Don’t know if you all know about Wolfgang’s Vault, but it is a completely awesome site having all of the old live footage from concerts Bill Graham did, dating all the way back to the old Winterland shows in the 60s. Here is a LA Times write up about it. It is a way cool site that you can get lost in for days if you are an old rock and roll concert nut like me. It is mostly free, but you do have to register.

  19. solai says:

    Bringing me to youtube made me watch one of my faves. Jefferson Airplane performing White Rabbit at Woodstock.

  20. darkblack says:

    Hmmm…While I’m waiting for some younger artistes and players to ramp up a sense of scorn for their stodgy elders and the non-specific fearlessness that informs much of great art, a quick top 5:

    Love – Forever Changes

    Thelonious Monk quartet with John Coltrane – complete Riverside recordings

    Cactus: Fully Unleashed – The live recordings

    MC5 – High Time

    Albert Ayler – the Holy Ghost boxset

    I could go on, but there’s nothing worse than some disembodied muso struggling to impart a subjective sense of ethos.

    ;>)

    Happy New Year, emptywheel and FDL.

  21. Twain says:

    Always listening to Rod Stewart and the sound trax from “Oliver” and “Paint Your Wagon” – nice

  22. prostratedragon says:

    Happy New Year!

    EW listening to music I take as a good sign—helps keep the brain together, provides a medium for thought, something.

    And don’t forget to make some music from time to time: Sing. Play a harmonica or a ukulele. The dumbest exercises count, if you do them in the right spirit.

  23. georgewalton says:

    I love music commonly referred to as New Wave:

    Ultrabox, OMD, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Dead Kennedys, Bauhaus, Thrill Kill Cult, Sonic Youth, The The, Icehouse, Bad Brains etc.

    My favorite albums though are: 1] My Life In the Bush of Ghosts—brian eno and david byrne 2] 666—Aphrodites Child 3] Odes—Irene Pappas 4] Court of the Crimson King—King Crimson

    Give them a listen.

      • bobschacht says:

        For my wedding (September 27, 2008), I made a souvenir compilation CD of Hawaiian Renaissance classics. Bruddah Iz is featured on a number of tracks, along with the Makaha Sons of Ni’ihau, Sunday Manoa, the Brothers Cazimero, Don Ho, the Ka’au Crater Boys, Alei’a, and a few other favorites. Never fails to improve my mood.

        Bob
        from HI 2004-2009

  24. Nanz says:

    what a fantastic post today! Now to listen to all the links. Ditto to these songs and then will share my gift to myself after wanting for years– the full Messiah for Christmas listening plus the score with words and music. I shed a tear or two at my audaciousness. It’s a thing from my youth singing in chorus and band– love it, love alllll music. Way more fun some days than politix and hurts far less!

    Now to start the navy beans with Christmas hambone instead of blackeyed peas for New Year’s day. They will be better if cooked while listening to all these songs! Happy New Year kiddos!

      • Raven says:

        I pressure cook blackeyed peas with smoked turkey necks for an hour. Remove lid safely and add sauteed onions, celery, bell pepper and garlic. Simmer for another couple of hours and mash some of the peas against the side of the pot to help thicken. Clean the meat off the necks and add. Don’t want meat, leave it out!

  25. rdwdkw says:

    Happy New Year, Marci. You probably never heard of him, but try Gram Parsons- Grievous Angel album. And Jackson Browne’s “The Pretender” never gets old. P.S. His story is something else, too.

  26. stoat says:

    i particularly like ari hest’s cover of hallelujah.

    i also like the fact that you can go see him play, sit right up close where his voice can make the hairs on your arm stand right up. nice.

  27. behindthefall says:

    That obnoxious ad that blares out “Congradjulayshuns!!! YOU WON!!!” is back on the site. It’s been nice since it’s been gone. Sorry that quiet times are over.

  28. cbl2 says:

    crikey! that mean ol oldnslow is insisting I come out, drink liquor and watch the football – will leave ya all with one last fave for 70’s rockers

    Excitable Boy

    my deja wont quit vuing

    rock on emptywheelers and firedogs !

    • skdadl says:

      Oh, yeah. My husband, who was all either classical or Celtic folk, was already not well when he heard Louis singing that song one night in a pub. I don’t think he’d ever heard it before, but he stopped in his tracks and his face just lit up, and he wouldn’t move ’til it was over. Very special memory.

        • skdadl says:

          He really responded to that voice. I went out and bought a CD right away, and I played it for as long as that worked.

          Mack the Knife — that’s me, though. Fantastischen song. My German was never very good, but when I was a student, I bought a terrific LP of Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), and I learned to sing every song. My German prof, who despaired of me otherwise, was highly amused that I could sing German even though I couldn’t learn to speak, read, or write it.

          Of all the English versions of Mack the Knife, I still love Bobby Darin’s the most and best. That was a bombshell when he first performed it (1959), simply brilliant. No one knew what it meant! But everyone loved it! That’s music.

  29. prostratedragon says:

    For your webmaster: I think I’m having an encoding problem such that I can’t enter things with the slash character. Like urls. I’m getting database errors even though I’m logged in and strictly alphanumeric things, like this note, get accepted. I’ve had this before at this site, and it comes and goes unexpectedly.

    utf8 is my native encoding.

    • rdwdkw says:

      Interesting. I am not a computer whiz, but when I tried to go to EW’s site on my Mac, I get this notice that says “501 Method Not Implemented GET to/ not supported”, any ideas? Only with Safari nothing else. Just started doing it.

  30. MadDog says:

    I’m all over the musical map. And there’s nowhere I’d rather be. *g*

    From Emmylou Harris to Alien Cowboys.

    From Errorhead to Chris Botti.

    From Del Amitri to Eric Johnson.

    From Linda Ronstadt to Tommy Bolin.

    From Jeff Golub to the BoDeans.

    From Brian Culbertson to Chuck Loeb.

    But in the end, I’m a lead guitar aficionado and have always been so.

    So I must bow before the master maestro, Joe Satriani.

    There is nothing quite like his magic in If I could fly.

    And if you thought Joe was only a studio guitarist, think again! You’ve not quite been to a live performance until you see his guitar magic in person.

    Try this with the volume cranked: Joe Satriani – Made of Tears (Live 2006)

    Or this: Joe Satriani – Super Colossal (Live 2006)

    And I don’t begrudge Steve Vai a place in the top guitarist firmament either.

    Who can forget this:

    Steve Vai – Tender Surrender

    Or this:

    Steve Vai – Boston Rain Melody

    The list of my music almost knows no bounds. I’ve only got 60 GB of music on my PC’s hard drive, and that barely scratches the surface.

    What would life be like without music?

    • fatster says:

      Oakland Coliseum. Grateful Dead. Don’t remember the year, which wasn’t important anyway. Satriani was also playing and I was very eager to hear him ’cause I knew he was a monster. Dude played so LOUD that I couldn’t hear him–just felt the music. Whew!

  31. avivagabriel says:

    I’ve been exploring lots of European jazz, and cross-genre/cross-cultural music; unbelievably beautiful stuff. So many names to write down; I’d be happy to share, if anyone’s interested.

    Or…you can check out my “DJ station” on Blip.fm, which is like Twitter, only the tweets play music when you click on them! Very social, excellent for discovering new music, and new friends to explore with.

    Check my main playlist out at: http://blip.fm/avivamagnolia (and) my secondary mix at http://blip.fm/liminal.

    My taste is eclectic–I “blip” all kinds of genres, but I tend to center around jazz and “world” or multicultural jazz/world stuff.

    Creating this music-sharing forum is a great idea for unwinding a bit of #HCR stress, @emptywheel! Thanks.

  32. freeman says:

    Yeah Parker didn’t get to record much as a result of the limit to vinyl being pressed during the war . With Strings was his first real recording ,I believe, after the war ended .

    • darkblack says:

      And the Petrillo/AFM music ban, as well. It was actually recorded 5 years after WW2 ended – Parker was certainly up for the challenge of melding bop lines to string pads, and it opened the door for many others to follow the format – Clifford Brown, and so on. Mitch Miller provided some fine producing – If Bird had lived, it would have been interesting to hear a revisitation of the format in the hands of a Nelson Riddle, say.

  33. freeman says:

    Ever hear Django story on how he lost the use of two of his fingers … it read a little like the monkey paw . True gypsy stuff .

    From wikipedia:

    At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine “Bella” Mayer, his first wife.[4] They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Reinhardt apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbors were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralyzed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burned. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs.[5] Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.

    His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With rehabilitation and practice he relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralyzed. He played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and used the two injured digits only for chord work.

  34. freeman says:

    There has to be a lesson in that story about how a disability led to a new and totally novel approach to the instrument that set him completely apart from other guitarists …

    Oh did I mention he was a gypsy ?

  35. jdaniel2 says:

    funny that you would post this. i just 15 minutes ago decided to put some music on for the first time in months.

    Feist – The Reminder (seems to be a winter album for me)

    Eliane Elias Sings Jobim (and pretty much anything else of her’s)

    two outstanding musicians

  36. prostratedragon says:

    Of late, RahjNYC, because all rhythm comes from the subway. The album: Graffiti Blue. You can get it from cdbaby.com site, I can’t link it. Features music heard in the movie Love the hard Way, and a Bebel Gilberto cameo besides. You can check out some of it, e.g. “Deeper,” “Union Square, NY,” at RahjNYC’s youtube channel. The stream playing at his own website’s good, too (www.rahjnyc.com). Headphones a plus.

  37. pdaly says:

    Happy New Year, Everyone.

    I was intrigued by the Auld Lang Syne rendition by Susan McKeown linked to by egregious today.

    So I looked up Susan McKeown. She has several albums. The Auld Lang Syne rendition above comes from the McKeown/Horner “Through the Bitter Frost and and Snow” album. However the prologue on her McKeown/Johnny Cunningham “A Winter Talisman” album sums up the importance of music and art –words which are appropriate to this thread:

    “As the glorious colours of autumn fade into the stark beauty of a silvery winter, friends and family gather together around the fire. Songs and stories are exchanged and shared tears and laughter become a powerful talisman against the cold darkness ahead. We are never truly without hope and comfort when poetry and music light the way towards our new beginnings.”

    Johnny, Susan & Aidan, Winter 2001

  38. rosalind says:

    the last time i saw stevie ray vaughan perform was 12/3/89 at oakland coliseum. after the show i made my way backstage to say good-bye to friends (i was still working for BGP at the time) and passed stevie & gang heading to their dressing room. i’ll never forget the beaming smile on his face. that he had just conquered a lot of his demons was well known, and it’s like he knew full well he’d been given a second chance and was going to make good use of every moment. and then in a blink he was gone.

    Stevie Ray Vaughan performing “Riviera Paradise” in 1989.

    (for those so inclined, it has some great close ups of his fretwork)

  39. prostratedragon says:

    Want some Piazzolla? He’s tremendous in concert with poetry. From Sony’s Edicion Critica series (at Amazon, with samples) you can find En Persona, just Piazzolla’s bandóneon and recitations by the poet Horacio Ferrer.

    The same two artists collaborate with a full ensemble and the great Amelita Baltar in —a lifelong obsession, another retelling of an old and familar story, what have you— titled María de Buenos Aires. The version that I far and away prefer is a Trova records import, available on separate cds as Maria de Buenos Aires, Primera Parte and … Segunda Parte, and with Victor Pontino listed as the first performer, though Astor himself performs and conducts.

    That said, there’s also a pretty nice live performance of María on youtube featuring J.J Mosalini as the ensemble leader, that appears for some reason to have been recorded inside a deep blue box …

  40. person1597 says:

    Yay! A thread for the ages!

    Virgil Fox [plays Bach’s} Toccata & Fugue in D minor
    Whatta show — saw him at Pomona College in the early 70’s. I wore miniature neon lights to the show.

    Since no one has mentioned Steve Tibbits (accessible)… (harder)… One of many great ECM artists!

    Terje Rypdal Waves (Great piece, bad recording). Early Terje.

    Someone you may not know… Tipper – [Off Kilter] and [Hobbledehoy]and [Noise Cannon]

    I could go on! (And we haven’t even seen the light show yet.)

    OK one more…

    David Parsons – Under the Bodhi Tree My fave is “Parikrama” but alas, no youtube.

    • rosalind says:

      i just saw lowell george’s daughter inara perform with her new side group, the living sisters, featuring becky stark and eleni mandell. their 3-part harmonies are out of this world. their debut album comes out in the spring.

      they have a few songs up on their myspace page.

  41. rdwdkw says:

    Just one more, REO Speedwagon, living here in Champaign,Il., we could go up on the U of I campus to the Red Lion Inn and at the time I think it cost a buck to get in to see them. Aw, the memories…. thank you everyone for all the great comments. And to you Marci, our sweet Marci, love.

  42. sundog says:

    Well, since you said new, I’m listening to;

    1) Them Crooked Vultures, they’re self titled debut.

    2) Song For A Son by the Smashing Pumpkins. All 44 new songs will be releasd as free. The first four are already recorde the first one, lined, released, and I beliee they’re going to be released at one per month.

    3) Spent Bullets by Adam Franklin

    4) The new Univers Zero recording to be released this month. It sounds like they’re best in years.

  43. freeman says:

    Between the iron gates of fate,

    The seeds of time were sown,

    And watered by the deeds of those

    Who know and who are known;

    Knowledge is a deadly friend

    When no one sets the rules.

    The fate of all mankind I see

    Is in the hands of fools.

    Epitath King Crimson

  44. freeman says:

    woke up today, I was crying,

    Lost in a lost world so many people are dying,

    Lost in a lost world.

    Some of them are living an illusion,

    Bounded by the darkness of their minds,

    In their eyes, it’s nation against nation,

    With racial pride, sad hearts they hide

    Thinking only of themselves, they shun

    The light. They think they’re right

    Living in their empty shells.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhNl6wIkVs8

  45. openhope says:

    Marcy, I have a great dvd for you to watch, with the cd of songs. Playing for Change/Peace Through Music. The actual documentary on how a small group of people went around the world and put 35 headphones on individual, mainly street musicians[ they’re in the “Joy” business] and laid down tracks is fucking amazing.
    Lifts the Spirit above the pain. And angst.
    You really need the deluxe set with the dvd as seen on PBS = 28[?] minutes and for $4 more buy the cd, it’s good music for the soul by people who know the importance of Love.Peace. Uniting as humans.
    Oh, if you order it, add on Grandpa Elliot’s CD Sugar Sweet, for $12.98. Grandpa Elliot probably knows, this is great house cleaning music!!!!

  46. openhope says:

    Should just say, Playing For Change/Peace Through Music. Deluxe set; dvd as seen on PbS +28 minutes with accompanying CD. Or you high-tech folk can probably download off their site. I live in the T-Rex era.
    But I’ve always loves TRex.!

  47. Leen says:

    If you have not heard about Fur Peace Ranch in my neck of the woods worth the gander. Jorma Kaukonen and his wife Vanessa discovered our great town of Athens Ohio several decades after many had been living very alternative “live simply so others can simply live” lifestyles in the area for quite some time. Many artist, writers, organic farmers buying and improving farms since the mid 6o’s. The community welcomed the Kaukonen’s.

    The music venue and creativity that pours out of their music farm is outstanding

    If you sign up for a guitar camp. Tell them Leen sent you
    http://www.furpeaceranch.com/

  48. michtom says:

    ‘Memo from Turner’ (Jagger) on the Performance soundtrack.

    Also on it are Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Buffy Ste. Marie & The Last Poets.