I've already paid fitting tribute to the late Donna Summer and Robin Gibb , who died on May 20 at age 62 in London after battling colon and liver cancer for much of the past year. So what can I say now that hasn't already been said, and that won't be said in the coming days and weeks and months of eulogies for the two disco-era icons? Instead I'll leave you with what could possibly be the only existing film of Summer and Gibb together onstage (along with Gibb's brothers, Barry, the sole surviving [...]
This is one of my favorite Leonard Cohen songs. It was Judy Collins' cover I first heard so I always think of it as her song, but this is a great cover. It is from Rita 's 1972 album This Lady's Not For Sale.
Thanks in large part to country-influenced acts like The Byrds, The Grateful Dead and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, rock fans were starting to dig the country scene — not Nashville's crooners or John Denver, of course, but the Outlaws, Gram Parsons and some of the old pioneers. Some of California rock's great names had their roots in playing bluegrass; people like Eagles co-founder and Flying Burrito Brother Bernie Leadon, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and the singer-songwriter J.D. Souther, who wrote for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, the Texan "Queen of Rock" who made her start as a country [...]
Photo and autograph courtesy of the G Archives. Rita Coolidge Happy birthday to Rita Coolidge who celebrates her birthday on May Day - May 1. Also born today: singers Ray Parker Jr. and Tim McGraw. It's a musical birth day! <!-- [...]
Rita Coolidge : Superstar [ purchase ] Joe Cocker : Delta Lady [ purchase ] This explanation will read more like Six Degrees of Separation than a normal musical post. Let's see if I can get us through the maze. Leon Russell began his career as a 60's session musician and songwriter. Sometime around 1969, he was an integral member of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, a transient group made up of Delaney and [...]
Rita Coolidge: Late For School Blues [ purchase ] This week's transitional post is a slightly silly kiddie blues number from "The Delta Lady", aka multiple Grammy winning vocalist Rita Coolidge, who can make pretty much anything sound funky. Worth noting: for most of us, the blues isn't a genre, it's a state of mind. After all, my kids get it all the time, and they sure as heck can't tell the Piedmont from the Delta.
Filed under: News Since much of Jimi Hendrix 's fashion sense came from his paternal grandmother -- a Cherokee Indian who had a flamboyant collection of feather hats and flashy costumes -- it makes sense that a jacket belonging to the guitar god will be on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. The exhibit, called 'Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture,' will honor Native American contributions to contemporary music. It will be at the Washington, D.C., museum from July 1 until January [...]
Rita Coolidge: Fever [ purchase ] Fall 1972 - my first college boyfriend. I bought the album, The Lady's Not For Sale... which included this amazing version of Peggy Lee's Fever... as well as Dylan and Cohen covers - we wore it out together. He left me for somebody else - I kept the record. I met another guy a few months later... same first name, same birthday - he fell in love with me, and the record too... We got married - officially together 33 years, another [...]
I've been waiting for the right opportunity to say a few nice things about Willie Nelson. And now that Damn Fine Day has selected Willie's "Devil in a Sleeping Bag" as its pick of the day, that chance is now upon me.
Mark Ronson - Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse) (siart.blogspot.com) J. Tillman - Ribbons of Glass (gorillavsbear.blogspot.com) Evie Sands - I Can't Let Go (officenaps.com) Feist - So Sorry (refinery29.com) Blonde Redhead - 23 (refinery29.com) Grizzly Bear - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) (saidthegramophone.com) Maximo Park - Our Velocity (songbytoad.com) Spoon - Paper Tiger (Cordani Remix) [...]
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