Two Lids, 2011. Welcome back campers. Here are some tidy sensory blips for the benefit of your imagination, and future generations. I seem to be finding new music more and more through movies and TV these days, so here are some of those selections. Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar - The theme song, for the now cancelled HBO show How To Make it In America otherwise known as the Vice Magazine show. Hoagy Carmichael - Stardust [...]
Georgia On My Mind is most commonly associated with Ray Charles. It appears on every tribute album to Ray, and Willie Nelson (who recorded the song in 1978) sang it at his funeral. But Georgia was a standard long before Ray Charles made it his own. It was written by Hoagy Carmichael and lyricist Stuart Gorrell in 1930. The story goers that the Georgia of the title was originally intended to refer to Hoagy's sister, but realising that Gorell's words could apply also to the southern US state, the writers were happy to keep things ambiguous. The plan [...]
Fifty years ago this week Ray Charles had Georgia On His Mind.
Clapton is easily the best thing he's done in years.
The Sarcastic Dharma Society From: Portland, Oregon, United States I love the name The Sarcastic Dharma Society. Possibly because, despite popular belief, sarcasm is the highest form of wit; or maybe it's because it sounds like one of the only society's that would have me as a member. So I was doubly joyed to discover that the band behind the brilliant name have a fine line in simply adorable [...]
Lonnie Johnson - Jet Black Blues ( buy ) That dumb cloud of Icelandic volcanic ash hanging over northern Europe is keeping a certain someone away from me at the moment. Gives me a bad case of the blues. So here´s the mighty Lonnie Johnson, who recorded this gem back in 1929 under the name of Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four. Featuring King Oliver on cornet, and a melancholic Hoagy Carmichael singing scat near the end.
Linda Ronstadt: Chapter 16
Hoagy Carmichael sings with Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not From the same film, Hong Kong Blues This song was covered by Ramblin Jack Elliott not so long ago. Here's Nat King Cole singing Carmichael's best known tune, Stardust
If you saw Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People you may recall Lindsay Wilson (aka Lindsay Reade), Tony Wilson's long suffering wife, who shags one of the Buzzcocks in a fit of revenge. You may also remember Vini Reilly (aka The Durutti Column ) playing to a large, empty Haçienda, blissfully undaunted . Well here they are together, doing a sweet, somewhat Christmas-like rendition of Hoagy Carmichael 's standard I Get Along Without You Very Well . Ironic considering that Lindsay would eventually dump him as a [...]
Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust
A Century in Jumps (Slight Return) 1927 The Pebbles, Who's You Tellin'? Sadie McKinney, Rock Away. Bill Brown and His Brownies, Hot Lips. Annette Hanshaw, Miss Annabelle Lee. Willard Robison, Deep Elm. Darby and Tarlton, Birmingham Jail. Blind Willie McTell, Mama 'Taint Long For Day. The Giddens Sisters, There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood. Al Bernard with the Goofus Five, Hesitation Blues.
7 Means of Movement: Sailing Fairport Convention, A Sailor's Life (alternate take). Clifford Jenkins, The Sailor's Alphabet. World Party, Ship of Fools. As dark night drew on, the sea roughened: larger waves swayed strong against the vessel's side. It was strange to reflect that blackness and water were round us, and to feel the ship ploughing straight on her pathless way, despite noise,
FoeWeel
Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
Keep the Coffee Coming
Music @ Blogcritics.org
The Devil Has The Best Tuna
Groover's Paradise
SqueezeMyLemon
Versions Galore
Art Decade
Locust St.
The Bee Gees – Tragedy (Equateur Remix)
Saint Motel
Knickers - My Baby's Just A Baby EP review
Sunday #98
