
Our thoughts and prayers go out this weekend to 62 year old Australian-born pop superstar Robin Gibb, founding member and long-time lead singer of disco trailblazers the Bee Gees, who is reportedly fighting for his life in a London hospital after a long struggle with cancer. In his honor, we're recovering a June 2008 feature which mines my origin as an audiophile and pays tribute to the seminal work of the Bee Gees through an expanded set of folk-tuned coverage. Gibb and his brothers may have spent their careers on the far end of [...]
Iedereen kent wel de wereldhit "Killing Me Softly", een grote hit voor Roberta Flack in 1973 en in 1996 wederom mateloos populair in de versie van The Fugees . Minder bekend is dat het origineel van dit liedje al in...

Lori Lieberman : Bus Stop [ purchase ] I wanted to behave myself. I wanted to post Bus Stop this week, and I wanted to follow the informal rule here, that a posted song must be old enough to have stood the test of time. So I went looking for versions of Bus Stop, and I found plenty of them. Then I listened. A distressing number of them are sound-alikes of the original Hollies version. A small number display the disastrous results of poor artistic decisions. I appreciate the artistry of [...]

Hey – this is my second mailbox dump this month, not including the things I've posted individually. You can't say I'm not right on top of things! Alongside the something-for-every-taste-bud tracks, there are a few goodies here: Telling on Trixie and Ash are both solid "indie" bands; the songs here are catchy and stuck in my head even after the first listen. The Rest is soothingly creepy. They kind of remind me of a lo-fi Jesus and Mary Chain. My pick of the litter is Radical Sons, out of St. Louis. They sound a little [...]

Lori Lieberman has remained in the spotlight since the early seventies, quietly gleaning the respect of an industry and a devoted base of fans. As the one responsible for such hits as " Killing Me Softly With His Song " she consistently recorded album after album for Capitol Records , RCA , EMI , Pope Music, and currently, Drive On Records. Throughout the years of ever-changing styles and fads, one thing has remained constant in Lieberman's music--her honest and heartfelt lyrics, coupled with her haunting, and beautiful melodies, always cutting right through to the [...]

Lori Lieberman: Killing Me Softly With His Song [ purchase ] Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly With His Song [ purchase ] The Fugees: Killing Me Softly With His Song [ purchase ] I don't normally do more than one contribution per theme but the entire week has passed and nobody has posted the Grammy winner for "Song of the Year" in [...]
Sure, they're naive and optimistic almost beyond belief, but they were the first exposure I had to American history, and they still make me happy. Besides, they're catchy . Right-click individually, save, and sing along! Rockin' and a-rollin, splishin' and a-splashin, over the horizon, what can it be? There's gonna be fireworks, on the Fourth of July! Well, the shot head 'round the world was the start of the Revolution-- We the People.... [...]