In what just may be the collaboration of 2007, legendary musician, songwriter and producer Booker T. Jones has joined forces with Texas-born singer/performer and Shortlist nominee Jolie Holland for a gorgeous rendering of the Louis Armstrong classic, "What A Wonderful World." Set for release as a digital single via Anti- on November 6th, the uplifting and charming Jones/Holland collaboration celebrates the song's 40th anniversary by paying tribute to the Bob Thiele and George David Weiss-penned classic in its own distinctive and beautiful way. First released in the fall of 1967 as an antidote to the increasingly racially and [...]
MONDAY.-The new creature says its name is Eve. That is all right, I have no objections. Says it is to call it by, when I want it to come. I said it was superfluous, then. The word evidently raised me in its respect; and indeed it is a large, good word and will bear repetition. It says it is not an It, it is a She. This is probably doubtful; yet it is all one to me; what she is were nothing to me if she would but go by herself and not talk. TUESDAY.-She has [...]
So after making history by releasing a double CD as her debut release (the first for a female artist), and then doing it AGAIN for her second, Nellie Mckay is back, this time dodging any expectations by creating a short but thoroughly entertaining nine track follow-up titled Obligatory Villagers . Once again, she displays a vocal range capable of crossing genres; from cool lounge, to entertaining cabaret, to smooth jazz, to spunky disco, to upbeat Broadway musical, Mckay's voice exudes a sultry allure while deliver lyrics that seem a little off kilter but still gently [...]
I know what you're thinking. "Damn, it's already Thursday and Paul's only put up one post this week, and while it's undoubtedly quintessentially cool, he didn't really go into too much detail about that Chuck Berry single... I mean, I was expecting to find out how his dog helped inspire the B-side or something. " Well no dog inspired "You Two" to my knowledge, and sometimes it's better just to listen, right? My apologies for the lack of information here this week -- there's been a changing of the guard at work that's had me [...]
I listened to this CD three times in a row yesterday. With all of the new music that I'm able to listen to, that doesn't happen very often, but it did with The London Book of the Dead , the fourth album by The Real Tuesday Weld , the moniker used by musician Stephen Coates. As with previous albums, Coates blends together an amalgamation of sounds that seem to be diametrically opposite. Lo-fi sounds mixed with hi-fi. Spoken words under instrumentation. Tinny horns tooting under electronic beats. French pop with [...]
Listening to Ferraby Lionheart 's debut full length solo album Catch the Brass Ring will make you feel like you've gone back to another era: an era where melodies were beautiful, the singer was part musician and part story-teller, and the instrumentation flowed together and just made sense. The experience is almost as if you were at a road-side inn listening to a traveling troubadour playing music next to the fireplace. Ferreby even hits up on some Dixieland jazz flavor with his song Before We're Dead . Check it out below and you'll [...]
Hey... Wanna take a walk down memory lane? Well at least mine, in case you weren't alive 20 years ago, Run DMC & Aerosmith teamed up to do a remake (for newbie's that's a kind of precursor to the mash up, where you actually get permission), of Aerosmith's 1974 hit Walk This Way. Well they're doing it again, on Hard Rock's Ambassadors of Rock Tour – hitting spots like London's Hyde Park this summer. Here's Daryl McDaniels aka DMC to you, perform "Walk This Way." Check out some video from a recent [...]
mp3: Richard Berry & The Pharaohs - Louie Louie mp3: The Meters - Handclapping Song mp3: The Shocking Blue - Venus mp3: The Isley Brothers - Shout mp3: Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston mp3: Louis Armstrong - Skokiaan Simply some straight-up and low-down P-A-R-T-Y party tunes for you today. None of these songs should require any introduction, they are all stone-cold and piping-hot dancefloor thrillers inspiring people to shake their moneymakers from the very day they [...]
CONCERNING THE KAAN'S PALACE OF CHAGANNOR. At the end of those three days you find a city called CHAGAN NOR [which is as much as to say White Pool], at which there is a great Palace of the Grand Kaan's; and he likes much to reside there on account of the Lakes and Rivers in the neighbourhood, which are the haunt of swans and of a great variety of other birds. The adjoining plains too abound with cranes, partridges, pheasants, and other game birds, so that the Emperor takes all the more delight in staying there, in order [...]
. There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them. We're charlatans in a way, we're magic [...]
Chris Montez - The More I See You Blimey!!! What a couple of weeks I've had. If you've been following what's been going on in my life this year you'll know that my life has been completely turned around by the most wonderful person in the world... Liz. I had pretty much given up on being happy again, and almost certainly given up on being so happy with somebody that I'd want to spend the rest
Once again, back is the incredible, the rhyme animal, the incredible D. I've been busy trying to get things done before my semester starts - reading the ten foot high stack of books I've built up in my queue, shooting the Bay Area up with my Holga, and finishing up research projects at work. All the while, I've somehow found myself quite a social life. So putting up music hasn't been quite on schedule. But alas, nothing like music blogging to while away the afternoon that should have been spent writing a research paper. [...]
7 Means of Movement: Walking Edwin Starr, 25 Miles. Champion Jack Dupree, Walking The Blues. Benny Carter, A Walkin' Thing. Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, ever since man has walked, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he walks, if he could walk better...questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological and political systems, which occupy the
No great fanfare this month, just great tunes. Presented by Aoife Mc, presenter of The Indie Hour on 103.2 Dublin City Anna Livia FM . May's Podcast stretches across musical history going as far back as 1928! You can subscribe to the Podcast RSS via iTunes or your favourite podcast software by copying this link into the relevant program. Enjoy! Podcast 003 - May 07 Justice - Stress - â (2007) [ Amazon [...]
Louis Armstrong - Jeepers Creepers (from The Majestic Years ) Al Bowlly - It's Great To Be In Love (from The Al Bowlly Story ) Though I'm generally not one for beaches and sunsets and the great outdoors and all that, it is a realm lush with metaphorical possibilities for describing that woozy internal feeling we call love. So, on days like today when it's treacherously cold [...]
I feel like I don't need to say a lot about today's post. It's Satchmo. Reading "The Night Before Christmas." Recorded at his home in February of 1971, it was his last commercial recording. If this doesn't put you in the Christmas spirit, nothing will. Louis Armstrong - "The Night Before Christmas" (mp3) from Christmas Through The Years [...]
I just took this picture in my backyard -- it's of the hill of the junior high school right behind my house. These three kids have been out there snowboarding for hours, now that the snow has stopped and it's a gorgeous sunny day (28 degrees, but gorgeous). I love Colorado. Backyard snowboarding. I keep amassing new Christmas tuneage to share, or else discovering something I had forgotten, buried in the depths of my iTunes. I figure I'll spill 'em now because it's my last chance for about 11 months. [...]
Okay, so it is Christmas week and everybody else has been doing Christmas mixes. And as cute as the new indie stuff may be, I still think that nothing holds a candle to the old classics. I dare somebody to tell me that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin are less cool than the Knife. Anybody? Yeah, that's what I thought. Here we present to you some things that will make your grandparents happy as you flood your stereos this Christmas. Enjoy, and happy holidays everybody. Andy Williams - O Holy Night [...]
Hey dudes, I'm new here to the site, and the guys have been kind enough to let me put together this year's holiday mix. I do love Christmas music; sorta fitting that it would comprise my first offering to you. I've tested it out, and she feels party worthy. Good for festive drives to the mall, or spicing up train rides to work. We tried to compile some new classics, without it sounding like
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Scenestars
motel de moka
Mainstream Isnt So Bad...Is It
Ain't superstitious, but these things I've seen...
Lil Mike's Last Known Thoughts & Random Revelations
Diddy Wah
Spoilt Victorian Child
Chasing.Red.Chasing.Red.Chasing.Red
Locust St.
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The Post-Rockist
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I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
Instrumental Analysis
Rewriteable Content
Dilated Choonz
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
Angger Dimas – Ribon Dooh (Preview)
K-Holes - "Frozen Stiff"
