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Category Archives: Music
Quote for the day: Ray Charles on Jacques Brel
“It takes a very warm person to say the things that this song says. And, you know, it’s plain; it’s not difficult. You don’t have to be a scholar to understand it.” – Ray Charles, interviewed by the French media … Continue reading
What I brought home from the Harvest
I had the pleasure of attending Harvest Music Festival in Arkansas this month with my wife and a couple of other friends. We camped on the festival grounds and took in three full days of live performances. This was my … Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Music
Tagged Angel of Death, Ballad of Donna and Bill, Bottom of the River, Chris Thile, Delta Rae, Fire, Golden Apple Dance, Goldfish, Hank Williams, Harvest Music Festival, honeyhoney, Jellyrollin' All Over Heaven, Joe Purdy, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Lost Highway, MacArthur Foundation, Movement and Location, Mulberry Mountain, North Mississippi Allstars, Ozark AR, Porchlight, Rig or Cross, Rye Whiskey, Split Lip Rayfield, The Giving Tree Band, The Punch Brothers, Tornado Rider, William Eliot Whitmore
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Quotes for the Day: Tech N9ne and Bob Dylan on musical theater
In order to bring you all this rawness I have learned from earth I hide behind face paint I can be who I want to be And I know its still me But I’m totally free with my face … Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Music
Tagged Bill Brownlee, Bob Dylan, concerts, David Dark, Face Paint, Identity Theory, Isis, Matt Okie, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Tech N9ne, The Midland, Who Do I Catch?
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Quote for the Day: Hannah Montana on Verlaine and Rimbaud
Relationships have all been bad. Mine’ve been like Verlaine’s and Rimbaud. Miley Cyrus’s cover of “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” stands out as a surprise highlight on the new Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan … Continue reading
The Deafening Noise and Transient Joys of Las Vegas
Many people take a side trip from Las Vegas to visit the Grand Canyon. So I can’t be the first to comment on the jarring juxtaposition of ephemeral, glitzy, often tacky and ever-changing Vegas with a desertous, majestic, inhumane canyon carved from … Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Music
Tagged Arizona, Bob Dylan, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie, Nevada, Wendy, When the Deal Goes Down
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My Own Tiny Office Concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyidesIDu_4
I invited staff from administrative and tech services departments – and the Harrisonville Branch staff – into my office for a little live holiday music.
Tau’olunga faka’ofo’ofa
I recorded this clip 5 years ago today:
The Patriotism of Dylan
Sean Wilentz’s new book, Bob Dylan in America, includes this passage describing Dylan’s 1966 performance in Paris at which he draped a U.S flag on the stage for the second half of the concert eliciting ”U.S. go home!” jeers from the French … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reading
Tagged A Swingin’ Affair!, Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan in America, Frank Sinatra, Gene Austin, I Cried for You, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Nathaniel Shilkret, Otis, Otis Redding, Paul Robeson, Sean Wilentz, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Stepin Fetchit, Sugar Baby, The Joker is Wild, The Lonesome Road, Try a Little Tenderness
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Competing Quotes for the Day: Sam Harris contra the Avett Brothers on holding our children
Take an experience like carrying your child. You pick your child up hundreds of times a day, it seems. At a certain time, your child is going to get too heavy to pick up. At a certain point you will … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Avett Brothers, Bonnaroo, Down with the Shine, Sam Harris, Stoic themes in music, Stoicism, Sylvie
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