On the 9th day of WFMU's 2011 fundraising Marathon , we need everybody to stand up and testify! The radio party of the year continues with DJ tag teams , swag (like the bottle opener keychain/USB flash drive pictured at left) and prize giveaways galore. We've also put together a fine batch of DJ Premiums : any of these handcrafted CDs are available for a pledge of $75 or more. Check the blog daily to sample what's available from today's DJs and don't forget to support [...]
After the first instalment of the country history series, it was suggested that I should have at least two compilations for each article. When I floated the idea on this blog's Facebook page, a number of people approved of the idea. So, just to mess up the sequence of posts, here's a second disc for the Pioneer Years – 1920s selection. ... In the first part of the history, we noted the first ever country recording: Sally Gooden by Eck Robertson [...]
New People, 1924Eddie Hunter and Alex Rogers with Luckey Roberts, I'm Done.Clarence M. Jones, Hula Lou.Jimmy Blythe, Chicago Stomp.Old Southern Jug Band, Hatchet-Head Blues.The Mound City Blue Blowers, Red Hot!Blossom Seeley with the Georgians, Lazy.Viola McCoy with Fletcher Henderson's Jazz Five, I Ain't Gonna Marry, Ain't Gonna Settle Down.Rosa Henderson & the Choo Choo Jazzers, Hard Hearted
6 Easy Pieces: Everybody's In Movies The Kinks, Celluloid Heroes. Velvet Glove, Movie Star. Prince, Movie Star. The picture pride of Hollywood. Too many fall from great and good For you to doubt the likelihood. Die early and avoid the fate. Or if predestined to die late, Make up your mind to die in state. Robert Frost, "Provide, Provide." Singers and songwriters, despite their arrogance,
"While runnning at a high rate of speed Train No. 97 on the Southern Railway, the south-bound fast mail train, jumped from a trestle 75 feet high, half a mile north of Danville, Va., this afternoon and was almost demolished." --NY Times, September 27, 1903. The rest, as they say, is history... The Wreck of the Old 97 is one of the most famous American folk ballads, with a number of different versions. My favorite version is by Johnny Cash, who provides an excuse to Steve the engineer and a stern warning to the [...]
7 Means of Movement: Flying Ray and Bob, Air Travel. Eddie Floyd, Big Bird. Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me. Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree,
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