Sun King: The Life and Times of Sam Phillips, the Man Behind Sun Records "Imperfectly Perfect !!"---- Sam Phillips and Sun Records Sam Phillips was born on January 5, 1923 and he passed away on July 30, 2003. He was a record producer who played an important role in the emergence of blues music and rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s. He is best known for having discovered Elvis Presley, and is associated [...]
Editor's note: I'd been waiting for the right Facebook music list to arrive that I could grab for this blog, and, lo, it came this past Sunday. It's fitting that it's by Dave's bartender John Yuelkenb... Continue reading "From the Facebooks: John Yuelkenbeck's desert-island playlist" >
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Not Sun Records head Sam Phillips , but former Christian pop singer/ Gilmore Girls "la, la, la" supplier Sam Phillips, who turns 47 today. I'm not sure if the word "underrated" really fits in the Internet age of overinformation, but Phillips' seven (!) albums since her name change from Leslie and split from Christian label Myrrh are all of a high quality and consistently seem to be released under the cloak of night. I would consider myself a fan, and somehow I missed the fact that her most recent album, Don't Do Anything , hit [...]
I like to give credit where credit is due. That's just how I roll. Some people mistakenly believe that the blues is a black or white thing. It is true that many of the great bluesmen were black, it is also a fact that there were many white men standing behind them encouraging them, enabling them, cajoling them, collaborating with them to create this great art form that we all love so much. Any way, I just want to shed some light on the men who stood with the bluesmen. Who helped them become the giants that we [...]
Here we are with Day 2 of the "Week of Bests" with Womenfolk's Best Album's for 2008 . As expected you might find the fairer sex represented quite predominantly ;-). Read on below and discover the beauty from the Women of folk or feel free to visit the original post here . ~~ I've never really had a 'best of' post. While I always found them interesting, I've never taken to task rounding up all of the albums [...]
Kristy Hanson Find any songwriter and ask them why they write and they'll undoubtedly say it's something that's in their blood; something as automatic as drawing breath. But to be a songwriter and to pursue it as your career is probably one of the most challenging professions out there. It's not enough to simply write your songs. One has to promote their music. Perform on stage. Raise funds for album releases. Essentially, earning a living as a songwriter is so much more than writing a song. In the case of Kristy Hanson , [...]
Federico Aubele This is the Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland's 94.7FM. If you heard the show last night you'd have noticed that I played two tracks from major label artists - Lily Allen and Kanye West. Even though I wrote a lengthy review of the new Kanye album808s & Heartbreak, I don't [...]
Looks like this one was sent to Fingertips before me, but I always think the more the merrier when it comes to good music. I'm excited to be able to share "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" and "Don't Do Anything" by Sam Phillips, from her album Don't Do Anything . I first heard the raspy croon of Sam Phillips in the early 1990s when her catchy ditty "Baby I Can't Please You" was featured on the Melrose Place soundtrack [...]
Looks like this one was sent to Fingertips before me, but I always think the more the merrier when it comes to good music. I'm excited to be able to share "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" and "Don't Do Anything" by Sam Phillips, from her album Don't Do Anything . I first heard the raspy croon of Sam Phillips in the early 1990s when her catchy ditty "Baby I Can't Please You" was featured on the Melrose Place soundtrack [...]
"Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" - Sam Phillips Another rich slice of idiosyncratic marvelousness from Sam Phillips , "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" uses the real-life 20th-century gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (one of the first to make a career singing secular music) as a jumping-off point for an evocative song about love and loss and the latent power of the self, particularly when challenged. One of Sister Rosetta's bigger hits was the song "Strange Things Happening Everyday"; Phillips begins her song with the line "Strange things are happening everyday" (and [...]
It got cold and frosty last night - more quilts and blankets coming out of the closet - and it's gotten rainy today. Here are a couple tunes for the times: Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' At Midnight Sam Phillips - Same Rain Photo from Chaotic Harmony
I've never really had a 'best of' post. While I always found them interesting, I've never taken to task rounding up all of the albums I've either purchased or have been sent over the course of the year and whittling them down to a select ten that I felt were true standouts. I suppose I've always felt that as soon as I finalized my ten choices, I'd then discover a couple of albums I completely forgot to consider that might have otherwise had made the list. But this year, I'm willing to give it a shot. So [...]
From the XPN Morning Download desk: Enjoy some of these cool tunes for your listening pleasure. No Quick Fix - Nada Surf (via Spinner) Another World - Antony & The Johnsons (via Spinner) White As Diamonds - Alela Diane Alela Diane dot com Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Sam Phillips Sam Phillips dot com
No Quick Fix - Nada Surf (via Spinner ) Another World - Antony & The Johnsons (via Spinner ) White As Diamonds - Alela Diane Alela Diane dot com Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Sam Phillips Sam Phillips dot com
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alela Diane : "White as Diamonds" [mp3] from To Be Still (out February 17th) other Alela Diane posts at Largehearted Boy Betty and the Cavaleros : free and legal holiday single (two songs) [mp3] other Betty and the Cavaleros posts at Largehearted Boy Delta Spirit : "People C'mon" [...]
There's a reason that NBC stands by Life , even in the face of it's on-the-bubble ratings, and many of those reasons were on full display in this episode, harkening back to the great string of episodes from last season. Centering around the fascinating subculture of badge bunnies (cop groupies,) this week's mystery delved into sexual politics in the police force. We're able to look at it from the outside thanks in part because our guides, Detective Crews and Reese, are outsiders themselves. Crews is the ultimate outsider, while Reese is an outsider here because she's [...]
The Deer Tracks - Slow Collision Boat Club - Warmer Climes I can't stay here forever 'cause you can't fake the sunshine Firekites - Autumn Story Trembling Blue Stars - November Starlings The world is beautiful and waiting We're hungry for [...]
We're already nearing the close of 2008, which means nerds and obsessives like yours truly are thinking about what we're going to include on our year-end best-of lists. While my list of top songs isn't yet ready for public consumption, I thought I'd share some songs that will likely make my final cut, but haven't really been widespread hits. The playlist below includes some of my favorite underexposed 2008 gems: None of these folks are wildly obscure, but you can hear more from these artists at their respective MySpace pages, which [...]
Enjoy this week's performance of 'Little Plastic Life' below. MP3 at bottom of post. MP3: Sam Phillips - Sister... [ alt link ]
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love... Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet , by William Shakespeare This week Sony unfurled the latest in the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series. Volume 8 contains unreleased and little-known tracks [...]
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