Brian at Moistworks posted about something I've been thinking about since the Internet became the primary means of distributing of music. Here's some quotes from his post : This week, Moistworks takes up the theme of "conversion." As the week's posts will show, this theme is subject to broad interpretation. But being the first up to bat, I decided to write a little about the concept of "conversion" as it most closely relates to Moistworks and mp3 blogs in general. Here at Moistworks, we give away other people's songs. That's what mp3 blogs [...]
Just in case you missed it Friday, in the rush to cover an inane police chase around Phoenix, two TV helicopters collided in mid air. Two pilots & two reporters were killed, and a park in Suburban Phoenix was turned into a messy charred memorial. Another fine example of the benefits of mainstream television news, racing to tell viewers a typically sensationalized, yet inconsequential story that likely ended the same as every other lame police pursuit: flat tires, crushed metal & deferred dumb ass dreams. The Ethiopians - Everything Crash [...]
by David Klein Know this to be true: making sense of the breadth of songs titled "Twenty Four Hours" and "24 Hours a Day" is not something to be taken lightly. Athlete, 10cc, Betty Boo, Kiki Dee, Canned Heat, Sundays, Swans, Ace, and Champion Jack Dupree are but a few of the musical masters I had to unceremoniously weed out just so I could narrow it down to a half dozen or so worthy contenders and a few oddballs to kick sand at. Muddy Waters [...]
Today is 07/07/07. Here are seven seven songs. Numerology will cease in Fluville until further notice. "The Magnificient Seven" by The Clash from Sandinista , 1980. "7 and 7 Is" by Love from Da Capo , 1966. "Seven Days" by Ron Wood from Gimme Some Neck , 1979. "Seven Lonely Days" by Patsy Cline from The [...]
Day one of the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival! Up first in our mp3 series on the festival: Pinetop Perkins. It may be the festival's 20th anniversary this year, but Pinetop Perkins has been playing the blues for four times that...
Insert perverted Nghia line here: _________________________ . Glastonbury , Europe's largest music festival, wrapped up Sunday night at Worthy Farm with a closing set by The Who. After taking a year off, the 2007 installment had record crowds and featured performances by Arctic Monkeys, Bjork, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, Amy Winehouse, Gogol Bordello, The Klaxons, The Long Blondes, and many more. Festival-goers were once again plagued with torrential rain and wind much like the Crackers who went in 2005 , which created Glasto's famous mud - perfect for getting down and dirty. [...]
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
Girls Talk yep ain't it the truth... I had to roll with this live version of a Dave Edmunds classic as my lead off track for this post because it reminded me of some local gossip here in the Bay Area. I guess it might even qualify as national dirt because I saw it mentioned on the Fox News scroll, where only things of import are found. It was right in there along with Cartoon Network publicity stunts, and whatever blather Tony Snowjob might be uttering this week about how great Iraq is coming along. [...]
I guess I should have explained a bit more about the mix last time: most of the songs are tangentially related to the Body Snatchers stories at best, and the mix isn't limited to what could fit on a CD (mostly because I'm not one to make tough decisions). Along the way we'll see some songs with a passing resemblance and others that are different from how we remembered them. Betty Everett and Jerry Butler -- Love Is Strange I've written about Betty [...]
The Knack have decided to sue everyone who's associated with the song "It's Tricky" for copying their one hit "My Sharona". This includes the artists (Run DMC) producers (Rick Rubin), publishers, and record companies. Online music retailers such as iTunes, Yahoo, Amazon, and Napster are even getting in on the being-sued action . Wait, wasn't "It's Tricky" released 20 years ago? Yes, it was, and it had an awesome video featuring Penn and Teller. But conveniently no one in The Knack knew that the song, which is [...]
Have some fun This is how we roll today: Rockin' It - The Treacherous Three Hot - Missy Elliot (Ratatat Remix) Rock You - The Roots Rock Me - Muddy Waters Stranglehold - Ted Nugent [...]
A few weeks ago, I posted about one of my favorite John Cusack movies, One Crazy Summer . This week, I've chosen another classic Cusack film, Better Off Dead . The first of his movies with director "Savage" Steve Holland , and probably my favorite, Better Off Dead tells the tale of down-on-his-luck Lane Meyer. Lane's beautiful and popular girlfriend, Beth, has just broken up with him for jerk ski jock Roy Stalin and Lane doesn't feel as though he can go on. He begins thinking of [...]
Jim Dickinson - the man who produced classic albums like Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers, The Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me, Toots Hibbert's Toots In Memphis and many other great records is back behind the dials for Spencer Dickinson a crazy, awesome collaboration between Jim Dickinson's kids Luther and Cody (also members of the North Mississippi All-Stars) and Jon Spencer, the whitest man with
Don't you hate it when you lose a CD, or more likely miss place it. So I'm surfing the web last night to see what other bloggers have to say about Muddy Waters and I come across this: Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters & Bo Diddley doing Sweet Little Angel mp3 @ www.kalamu.com Which is accompanied with a cool post on the similarities of rap and the blues. A conversation that I have had many times. After listening to the mp3 I realize that I own a disk with this song on [...]
In school a friend, Dave, had a weekly blues show on the college radio station. One night he played this Muddy Waters song that I loved instantly. It had piano and harmonica and a jiggy little beat and bragging lyrics about gypsy women and sexual prowess, which is really all you need for a rollicking good blues song. The next week I called up and asked Dave if he'd play the song again, but I didn't know the name of it, so I says, says I: "Dave, you played this song last week by Muddy Waters, I don't [...]
Happy birthday to the Godfather of the blues Mr. Muddy Waters, he was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1915. According to Muddy his grandmother gave him the nickname of Muddy Waters because he liked to play in the muddy creek near his house. He learned to play the blues by listening to other Mississippi Delta blues musicians such as Son House and Robert Johnson. He worked on the farm and drove a tractor during the week, but he started to perform at juke joints, fish fries and parties on the weekends. [...]
I have had it on my list of things "to do" for a while now to write something about the Official Muddy Waters Site . While it has not been updated in a while, it is a wealth of info for the Muddy Waters fan or for someone who is just getting turned on to the "God Father of the Blues." The site is easy to navigate and has some sections that provide information about Muddy Waters that I doubt you could find anywhere else. There is of course a Bio Section . [...]
Muddy Waters talks about growin' up in Mississippi & workin' & movin' to Chicago playin' the blues... Muddy Waters Interview @ www.youtube.com. file under; music , blues , video , Muddy Waters , interview
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