Piety & Custom is a No Words collection series compiling past-posted songs. You can find the first one here . Download (ZIP) / Request Immediate Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1) Mary-Anne Paterson [...]
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"Strange Fruit" ist ein Song, der die Welt verändert hat. Billie Holiday hat die populärste Version eingespielt, Josh White eine ebenso hörenswerte Fassung. Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, And the [...]
Rick, When I helped Porkchop make Fry Pharmacy, we paid royalties to Johnny Cash for Delia's Gone. Now, I realize it's a much older tune. I haven't done a huge amount of research on it, but it may all come from Alphonso "Blind Blake" Blake Higgs. I have a Josh White songbook that says Josh started playing it in 1939. Youtube has several other covers. Thought you might enjoy Alphonso's version recorded in the 50's. [...]
T. Mills Premieres "Stupid Boy" on MySpace, Announces Debut Album Details Orange County newcomer T. Mills has been gaining attention over the past two years with his fresh blend of hip-hop, electro and punk attitude, creating a sound that fits just as well at a keg party as it does on the dancefloor. MySpace Music has premiered the lead-off single, "Stupid Boy," from T. Mills' upcoming debut LP Ready, Fire, Aim... Buy [...]
BLUES SYNDICATE Nº 12 1- Sintonia 2- Blues ain´t nothing. Johnny Copeland. 03.59 3- Done changed my way of life. Taj Mahal. 07.01 4- Empire state spress. Son House. 03.41 5- Forty days and forty nights. John Hammond. 04.34 6- How Smokey feels. Smokey Wilson. 04.06 7- I put a spell on you. Screamin Jay Hawkins. 02.24 8- It´s you baby. Joe Louis Walker. 03.55 9- John Henry. Bill Monroe. 01.33 10- John Henry. Josh White. 03.12 11- John Henry. Big Bill Broonzy. 03.30 12- John Henry. Fede Aguado. 02.35 13- Old maid boogie. Eddie Cleanhead Vison. [...]
Tomorrow, January 14th, is my birthday - my third, in fact, since beginning the musical journey we call Cover Lay Down. Two years ago, in celebration, we featured covers of and from musicians who shared my birthday , a list that included Allen Toussaint, Dave Grohl, LL Cool J, and T-Bone Burnett. Last year, we gathered in covers of and from a set of artists born in 1973 , and that was fun, too: it's hard to feel old when you're the same age as Andrew Bird, Rufus Wainwright, and other luminaries whose [...]
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Ronald Reagan wasn't the only one to use the morning to his advantage. Enjoy the playlist below. MP3s of the top 4 songs available after the jump. 10. Bob Dylan-One Too Many Mornings 9. Oasis-Morning Glory 8. Bob Dylan-As I Went Out One Morning 7. Josh White-Good Morning Blues 6. Trampled by Turtles-Drinking in the Morning 5. Bob Dylan-New Morning 4. MP3: Bob Dylan-Meet Me in the Morning 3. MP3: [...]
Ah, December. The final month of the year. It contains the festival of Hanukkah, sometimes! For journalists - and to a lesser extent their retarded cousins, bloggers - December is a time for looking back over the events of the last three-hundred-thirty-plus days. Across all forms of media, the next three weeks (plus last week) will be filled with cloying fits of nostalgia, hindsight-enriched wistfulness, and even some good-old-fashioned navel-gazing. Please stay tuned to Swan Fungus each Friday this month as we conclude the week with a new Year-End list. If you are a regular reader you will recall that [...]
I'm not proficient at performing Google searches, so you'll have to excuse my ignorance if somebody else has already been elected official torchbearer of the Michael Ian Black (née Michael Schwartz) backlash club. As far as I can tell (that is, without doing a single web search for "Michael Ian Black sucks" or "Michael Ian Black backlash"), I'm the first to attempt this. Let me tell you...it feels pretty good. I haven't even begun typing anything substantial yet, just this flowery introduction, and it feels really, really good. I'm talking blowjob-from-a-girl good. I remember Mr. Black when he [...]
I've been trying to put together a post on blues postage stamps. You know, a little something something for the philatelists who read SML. Oh, and the bluesmen just call them stamp collectors. But my ability to collect pictures of the blues stamps is not so good. I know that there are many more stamps then the few I have posted here. Here is what I have come up with so far, I will update my collection when I find more photos of blues stamps. If you know of any [...]
Unchained Melody is one of the most iconic songs of all time. The writer of this song, Lyricist Hy Zaret, passed away yesterday at the ripe old age of 99. In his memory, I found some of the more well known renditions (and there are a lot to choose from): Elvis Presley, Righteous Brothers , U2, The Scene from the movie Ghost , Tom Jones, and Engelbert Humperdinck. There are two other songs which I had always attributed to others were in fact [...]
josh white lass with the delicate hair 1947 (française version) A cette époque, à quoi déjà ressemblais tu ? Chaque fois que j'entends Josh White dans " the lass with delicate hair ", cette question surgit Peut-être aussi - bien que ce ne soit pas "t he lass of aughrim ' - une réminiscence de "gens de dublin", film de John Huston (adaptation de "the dead" de James Joyce)... [...]
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