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Stained Glass Bluegrass Playlist - December 7, 2008

Hour 1
When Was The Last Time - Lost & Found
Wicked Path Of Sin - Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys
Prayer Is The Key To Heaven - Patent Pending
Everybody Got A Light - Daughters Of Bluegrass
God’s Coloring Book - Country Gentlemen
Just One Rose Will Do - Lewis Family
Big Wheel - Ricky Skaggs & The Whites
Angels Are Singing (In Heaven Tonight) - James King
Looking Through The Windows Of Heaven - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys
I’m Going To Glory - Knoxville Grass
Heart That Will Never Break Again - Nothin’ Fancy
I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior - Johnson Mountain Boys
Tenderly Calling (Home Come On Home) - Hot Rize
There’s A Light Shining High On The Mountain - Roby Huffman & The Bluegrass Cutups
When God Comes & Gathers His Jewels - Gibson Brothers
I Know What You’re Talking About - Lynn Morris Band
Hour 2
Greatest Gift Of All - Gena Britt
I Saw The Light - Earl Scruggs
The First Step To Heaven - Nashville Bluegrass Band
The Spirit Moved - Mountain Heart
He’ll Take You In - Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys
I Am A Pilgrim - Merle Travis
I’ll Put On A Crown And Walk Around - The Del McCoury Band
Shout And Sing - Charlie Monroe & Bill Napier
Do You Want To Live In Glory - Lonesome River Band
Hour 3
Oh How I Love Jesus - Chigger Hill Boys & Terri
Amazing Grace - Honi Deaton & Dream
Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus - Hank Locklin
I’ll Fly Away - Maddox Brothers & Rose
Take The Name Of Jesus With You - Phoenix
In The Garden - Rochesters

Black Sheep Loves You Better Than the Rest

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Genius playlist based on Paul Simon's Homeless

Paul Simon - Homeless
Graceland

Paul Simon with The Jessy Dixon Singers - Mother And Child Reunion
Live Rhymin'

Randy Newman - Sail Away
Sail Away

Peter Gabriel - Biko
Shaking The Tree

Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Released
Biograph [BOX SET] (Disc 3)

Ry Cooder - "Paris, Texas"
The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed

Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E.'s In Love
Rickie Lee Jones

Jefferson Airplane - Embryonic Journey
Jefferson Airplane Loves You (Disc 1)

Cream - I Feel Free (BBC Sessions)
Cream: The BBC Sessions

Eric Clapton - Running On Faith
Unplugged

Paul Simon - Born At The Right Time
Rhythm Of The Saints

The Band - Ophelia
To Kingdom Come (Disc 2)

"Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'dour" - Shaking The Tree
Shaking The Tree

Paul Simon with The Jessy Dixon Singers - The Sound Of Silence-Paul Simon
Live Rhymin'

Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Blood On The Tracks

Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel
The Trinity Session

Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman
Biograph [BOX SET] (Disc 3)

Paul Simon - That Was Your Mother
Graceland

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Live Rust

Dire Straits - Why Worry
Brothers In Arms

Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go
Greatest Hits

Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
English Rose 69'

The Band - The Shape I'm In
To Kingdom Come (Disc 1)

Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
Blood On The Tracks

Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
The Complete 50's Masters (Disc 1)

Led Zeppelin, Bloom County, and Christmas - what else do you need?

FARK.com: Fark Video Player (4054264) Take Opus, Bill the Cat and Classic Zeppelin. Blend with yuletide cheer. Bake at 350 for 5 minutes 29 seconds. Serve and enjoy

YouTube - Stan Rogers - Mary Ellen Carter

YouTube - Stan Rogers - Mary Ellen Carter

Stained Glass Bluegrass

Stained Glass Bluegrass on WAMU. Windows Media stream and MP3 stream. MP3 stream requires free registration.

MilkandCookies - Perfect Day: BBC Promotion

An amazing array of talent, including Emmylou Harris, Bono, Tom Jones, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, and Lou Reed, singing Lou's Perfect Day: MilkandCookies - Perfect Day: BBC Promotion

Exclusive First Listen: Neil Young : NPR Music

NPR.org is streaming Neil Young's Sugar Mountain, a live recording from 1968: Exclusive First Listen: Neil Young : NPR Music

Genius playlist based on Queen's Under Pressure

Queen - Under Pressure
Live At Wembley Stadium

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Bat Out of Hell

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
Joshua Tree

The Who - My Generation (Radio 1 Jingle)
BBC Sessions

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Brothers In Arms

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Blue Wild Angel - Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight

Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
Secret World Live (Disc 2) [Live]

Eric Clapton - Layla
Unplugged

The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Smiley Smile

Queen - I Want It All
Classic Queen

Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K.
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Joshua Tree

Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
Little Creatures

The Clash - London Calling (Live)
The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Who's Next

Meat Loaf - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
Bat Out of Hell

Queen - A Kind Of Magic
Classic Queen

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia
Greatest Hits

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Brothers In Arms

Guns N' Roses - Live And Let Die
Use Your Illusion I

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Graceland

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Revisited

The Clash - I Fought the Law (Live)
The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium

U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Rattle And Hum

Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces
St. Elsewhere

The best rock and roll tune before there was rock and roll

Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman Orchestra

via Milk and Cookies

Arthur Lee & Love - Alone Again Or (Live)

Pink Floyd "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" Syd Barrett Tribute

OK, I've listed this one before. Lately, I've been in touch with some long-time friends and have been, in turn, thinking about other friends who've been that target of faraway laughter.

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Yalla Yalla

MilkandCookies - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Yalla Yalla

RoasterBoy has sent you a custom Slacker radio station

RoasterBoy sent you a personalized Slacker radio station. Check out the station details below or click here to start listening now. Obama Radio Obama Obama Radio plays the favored music of Barack Obama including his personal song picks, tracks from his favorite artists and music played at his events. Hear inspiring tunes from Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow and many more. Your friend RoasterBoy sent you this email. Please feel free to review our privacy policy. - www.slacker.com Copyright � 2007 Slacker, Inc.

Genius playlist based on Little Feat's Dixie Chicken

Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
Waiting For Columbus [Live]

The Outlaws - (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
Best of The Outlaws: Green Grass and High Tides

ZZ Top - Tush
Greatest Hits

Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias
"1974-03-23 Cow Palace, Daly City CA (Dick's Picks 24)"

Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
Running On Empty

Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
Silk Degrees

Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E.'s In Love
Rickie Lee Jones

Little Feat - Roll Um Easy
Dixie Chicken

Grateful Dead - Friend Of The Devil
Dicks Pick 23 (Disc 1)

Talking Heads - Take Me To The River
Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition (1984 Film)

Neil Young - Cinamon Girl
Live Rust

Derek & The Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues
Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs

Cream - Crossroads (BBC Sessions)
Cream: The BBC Sessions

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Born To Run

Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
Blood On The Tracks

The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues
Fillmore East (February 1970)

Talking Heads - And She Was
Little Creatures

The Band - Up On Cripple Creek
To Kingdom Come (Disc 1)

Little Feat - Time Loves A Hero
Waiting For Columbus [Live]

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
Blind Faith

Van Morrison - Domino (Live)
..It's Too Late To Stop Now... (Disc 1)

Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
Born To Run

Grateful Dead - Bertha
"1974-03-23 Cow Palace, Daly City CA (Dick's Picks 24)"

Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis
Maria Muldaur

The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! [LIVE]

YouTube - Pogues live - Dirty Old Town

YouTube - Pogues live - Dirty Old Town

YouTube - Rock Lobster • The B-52's

This is an old, black-and-white clip, an unpolished gem: YouTube - Rock Lobster • The B-52's

The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium

London Calling
Police On My Back
The Guns of Brixton
Tommy Gun
Magnificent 7
Armagideon Time
Magnificent 7 (Return)
Rock the Casbah
Train In Vain
Career Opportunities
Spanish Bombs
Clampdown
English Civil War
Should I Stay or Should I Go
I Fought the Law

Beyond The Beat Generation

Beyond The Beat Generation. An unusual mix of underground music from the late 60s. Here's a link to their playlist.

Tom Rush - Urge for Goin'

An achingly tender cover of Joni Mitchell's gem, arguably the best and saddest song about autumn. "See the geese in chevron flight."

via my 60s Folk Music station Pandora.com

FARK.com: Fark Video Player (3919654) In memory of Nick Reynolds, here's the Kingston Trio performing M.T.A

FARK.com: Fark Video Player (3919654) In memory of Nick Reynolds, here's the Kingston Trio performing M.T.A

Arlo Guthrie | Live From Folk Alley

Arlo Guthrie | Live From Folk Alley

Kingston Trio's Nick Reynolds Dies At 75

NoDepression.com - Founding member of Kingston Trio dies.

David Bromberg | Live From Folk Alley

David Bromberg | Live From Folk Alley

Bob Dylan's 'Tell Tale Signs' : NPR Music

Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan's 'Tell Tale Signs' : NPR Music
Dylan at his most reflective.

The Rolling Stones, in "Simpathy fot the Devil", Rock & Roll Circus, live, 1968.

The Rolling Stones, in "Simpathy fot the Devil", Rock & Roll Circus, live, 1968. (sic)
OK, we were all young and goofy-looking at one point, but, sheesh. These guys are looking as though they were still trying to beg the keys to their old man's car and, but they made music that holds up 40 years later.

iTunes Genius Playlist, based on I'll Fly Away

Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch - I'll Fly Away
"Down From The Mountain: Live Concert Performances By The Artists & Musicians Of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Lyle Lovett - If I Had A Boat
Pontiac

Hank Williams - I Saw The Light
Hank Williams 16 Greatest Hits

Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces
Patsy Cline Story

Kris Kristofferson - Why Me?
The Austin Sessions

Willie Nelson & Johnny Cash - (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
Storytellers [Live]

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will The Circle Be Unbroken
"Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2"

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons (1955)
16 Tons Of Boogie: The Best Of Tennessee Ernie Ford

Lyle Lovett - Private Conversation
The Road To Ensenada

Willie Nelson - Good Hearted Woman
Willie & Family Live (Disc 1)

"Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris" - To Know Him Is To Love Him
Trio

Joaquin Phoenix - I Walk The Line
Walk The Line (???)

Alison Krauss - Down To The River To Pray
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Alison Krauss & Union Station - Wild Bill Jones
"Down From The Mountain: Live Concert Performances By The Artists & Musicians Of ""O Brother, Where Art Thou?"""

Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special
At Folsom Prison / San Quentin

Randy Travis w/ Dolly Parton - Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Heroes and Friends

ZZ Top - "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide"
Greatest Hits

Willie Nelson - Blue Skies
Stardust

Wayne Hancock - Thunderstorms And Neon Signs
Thunderstorms And Neon Signs

Patsy Cline - Sweet Dreams
Patsy Cline Story

Bill Monroe - Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection

Emmylou Harris - If I Needed You (w/ Don Williams)
Duets

Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - Love Hurts
"Warm Evenings, Pale Mornings, Bottled Blues 1963-1973"

The Stanley Brothers - Angel Band
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Lyle Lovett - Nobody Knows Me
Lyle Lovett and his Large Band

cbs2.com - Presidential Candidates Barack Obama, John McCain Reveal Top 10 Songs

CBS reports the favorite tunes of our presidential candidates. FWIW, only one of the songs, "What's Going On," would make my top 10, although there's some pretty good music here.

Here's the complete list according to Blender.com:

Number 10:
Obama: "Yes We Can" by will.i.am
McCain: "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" by The Platters

Number 9:
Obama: "City of Blinding Lights" by U2
McCain: "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond

Number 8:
Obama: "Think" by Aretha Franklin
McCAIN: "I've Got You Under My Skin" by Frank Sinatra

Number 7:
Obama: "You'd Be So Easy to Love" by Frank Sinatra
McCain: "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong

Number 6:
Obama: "Touch the Sky" by Kanye West
McCain: "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys

Number 5:
Obama: "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone
McCain: "As Time Goes By" by Dooley Wilson

Number 4:
Obama: "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones
McCain: "If We Make It Through December" by Merle Haggard

Number 3:
Obama: "I'm On Fire" by Bruce Springsteen
McCain: "Take a Chance On Me" by ABBA

Number 2:
Obama: "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye
McCain: "Blue Bayou" by Roy Orbison

Number 1:
Obama: "Ready or Not" by the Fugees
McCain: "Dancing Queen" by ABBA

(© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

iTunes Genius Playlist, based on O Mary Don't You Weep

Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band - O Mary Don't You Weep
Live In Dublin

Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
Live In Dublin

Bob Dylan - Thunder On The Mountain
Modern Times

Bob Dylan & The Rolling Thunder Review - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall [Live]
Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue (Bootleg Series Vol. 5) (Disc 1)

Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
Small Change

Van Morrison & The Chieftains - Irish Heartbeat
Irish Heartbeat

Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel
The Trinity Session

Bruce Springsteen - If I Should Fall Behind
Lucky Town

The Rolling Stones - Shine A Light
Exile On Main Street

Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind
Every Picture Tells A Story

The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Live MCMXCIII

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited

Paul Simon - Graceland
Graceland

John Mellencamp - Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)
Mr. Happy Go Lucky

George Harrison - If Not For You
All Things Must Pass (Disc 1)

Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band - This Little Light of Mine
Live In Dublin

Bruce Springsteen - Jacob's Ladder
We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions

Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Released
"The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [BOX SET]"

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Live Rust

Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Twelve

Bonnie Raitt & John Prine - Angel From Montgomery (Live)
John Prine Live

Derek & The Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues
Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs

Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart
The Wind

Bruce Springsteen - Out In The Street (Live)
Live in New York City (Disc 1)

Paul Simon with The Jessy Dixon Singers - Mother And Child Reunion
Live Rhymin'

Tom Rush - Galveston Flood

As we watch Ike intensify and take aim at Galveston, this old song about the 1900 Galveston flood keeps spinning around my head.

Wasn't that a mighty storm
Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning
Wasn't that a mighty storm
It blew all the people away.

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iTunes Genius Playlist

I am trying out the new iTunes 8 feature called Genius. In brief, you give the Genius the name of one song in your music library and it builds a playlist of stuff that a good DJ would put together. The first song that I chose was The Green Manalishi.

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Fleetwood Mac - The Green Manalishi
Live At The Boston Tea Party (Part One)

The Band - The River Hymn
To Kingdom Come (Disc 2)

Neil Young - The Loner
Live Rust

Savoy Brown - Louisiana Blues
Blue Matter

Cream - Deserted Cities Of The Heart
Wheels Of Fire - In The Studio

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Who Do You Love (Part 1)
Happy Trails

Yardbirds - Train Kept a Rollin'
Yardbirds Reunion Jam

The Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror
The Velvet Underground & Nico

John Lennon - Cold Turkey
The John Lennon Collection

Traffic - Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory
On the Road

Fleetwood Mac - Man Of The World
The Vaudeville Years - 1968 To 1970 (Disc 1)

Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Cream - N.S.U. (BBC Sessions)
Cream: The BBC Sessions

The Yardbirds - "Over, Under, Sideways, Down"
Roger The Engineer

Jeff Beck - Shapes Of Things
The Late 60's With Rod Stewart

Savoy Brown - Train To Nowhere
Blue Matter

Jefferson Airplane - Today
Jefferson Airplane Loves You (Disc 1)

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - I Scare Myself
Striking It Rich

The Electric Flag - Groovin' Is Easy
"The Monterey International Pop Festival,Volume"

Janis Joplin - Combination Of The Two
Janis (Disc 2)

Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman
Fleetwood Mac - The Collection

Blind Faith - Presence Of The Lord
Blind Faith

Cream - Those Were The Days
Wheels Of Fire - In The Studio

Country Joe & The Fish - Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
"The Monterey International Pop Festival, Volume 1"

Jefferson Airplane - Plastic Fantastic Lover [Live]
Jefferson Airplane Loves You (Disc 2)

Fleetwood Mac - The Green Manalishi

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The Clash - The Magnificent Seven [live]

YouTube - The Clash - The Magnificent Seven [live]

Phil Ochs - Pleasures of the Harbor

The title song from this album, Pleasures of the Harbor, is an edgy tale of sailors home for brief shore leave. With Ochs's wiggling vocals and the gentle, stringed backing, sets you up for one of the most disturbing songs anywhere - The Crucifixion. Ochs opened some pretty strange doors in his brief time with us.

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Woody Guthrie: Jesus Christ

You might recognize the tune and even some of the lyrics from Woody's Jesse James: MilkandCookies - Woody Guthrie: Jesus Christ

MilkandCookies - Pink Floyd: Us and Them, Original

MilkandCookies - Pink Floyd: Us and Them, Original

In a Rolling Stone interview, David Gilmour remarked that Pink Floyd wasn't very good musically and had to find other ways to be successful. Guess that it worked. Dark Side of the Moon was on the Billboard charts for more than 1500 weeks.

iTunes shuffle playlist

I Hear A Rhapsody - Bill Evans
Bill Evans - "Montreux II"

Banquet Hall - Loreena McKennitt
To Drive The Cold Winter Away

Anu - Adrian Legg
Guitar For Mortals

Take My Hand, Precious Lord - Thomas A. Dorsey
Say Amen, Somebody

And - Grateful Dead
Terrapin Station (Capital Centre, Landover, MD 3/15/90) (Disc 3)

Treacherous Cretins - Frank Zappa
Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar (Disc 1)

Help Me - Elvis Presley
Amazing Grace: Elvis (Disc 2)

Buzzard Keep On Flyin' Over... - Simon Rattle cond.
Porgy And Bess Disk 2/3

Cousin Mary (Alternate Take) - John Coltrane
Giant Steps

Shango (Chant to the God of Thunder) - Babatunde Olatunji
Drums Of Passion

YouTube - U2 BAD Live Aid 1985

There was so much great music at the Live Aid concert. No doubt, a lot of the energy came from the worthiness of the cause. Also, though, many bands were at the top of their games. Even the long vamp at the end of this one, while Bono dives into the crowd, adds to the haunting sharpness of the tune.

18 years ago today, the sky was crying & created a Texas flood when Stevie Ray Vaughn left us

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

The Archive - Music Videos | thevine.com.au

The Archive - Music Videos | thevine.com.au

Over the years Paul Mawhinney has amassed what has become the world's largest record collection. Due to a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is his story.

MilkandCookies - Ozzy Osbourne: Take Me Out to the Ballgame

MilkandCookies - Ozzy Osbourne: Take Me Out to the Ballgame

MilkandCookies - Bob Marley: Jammin'

MilkandCookies - Bob Marley: Jammin'

The Top 20 Albums of All Time (For Real) - The Y! Music Playlist Blog

The Top 20 Albums of All Time (For Real) - The Y! Music Playlist Blog

B-52s lip-sync Rock Lobster

FARK.com: Fark Video Player (3779026) Fred Schneider sings about his favorite crustacean. Bonus: Fred has a massive pr0n stache

YouTube - Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Time isn't always easy on clear, high tenors. Sometimes, you carry the tune. Sometimes, the tune carries you. In any case, it's a great piece of music.

YouTube - Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

The Torture Playlist

Mother Jones magazine has published a playlist of tunes used to disorient detainees in military prisons. Note that some of the tunes (and even titles) may be NSFW.

Happy Birthday, Woody Guthrie!

Happy Birthday, Woody Guthrie! | Listening Post from Wired.com

The Pogues - If I should fall from grace with God (Country Version)

YouTube - The Pogues - If I Should Fall (Country Version)

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

The Boss

Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up

Some days you need to hear this song several times: YouTube - Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up

The Pogues with Joe Strummer - London Calling

YouTube - The Pogues - 09 - London Calling (Live @ T&C '88)

Happy 4th - This Land and Woody Guthrie

We were sitting on Adam and Jennie's front porch, singing patriotic songs. This was one of them: Happy 4th - This Land and Woody Guthrie

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Kimmo Pohjonen & Sami Kuoppamäki: "Driving North"

It's not as creepy as you might think: an accordion cover of a Hendrix

via Fark

iPod shuffle playlist

Sitting In The Stern Of The Boat (The Journey Begins)

Various Artists Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Sugaree

Jerry Garcia Band Don't let Go

Oh, Freedom

Pete Seeger A Link In The Chain (Disc 1)

Faht

Phish A Picture Of Nectar

Variation 6

Beethoven, Ludwig van (p trio) - Eugene Isotomin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose The Trio Recordings Vol. 2, CD 1 0f 4

Talkin' Fishin'

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, U. Utah Phillips & Spider John Koerner Legends Of Folk

Sweet Home Chicago

Peter Green The Robert Johnson Songbook

Bulgaria (Blr)

Vienna State Opera Orchestra National Anthems Of The World

Talk To Me Of Mendocino

Kate & Anna McGarrigle The McGarrigle Hour

Chi guardi?

Leonard Bernstein/Various La Boheme (Disc 1)

I'm Losing You

Kate & Anna McGarrigle Heartbeats Accelerating

My Generation

The Who BBC Sessions

I'm On The Firing Line

The Soul Stirrers Jesus Gave Me Water

Slow Down

The Beatles Live At The BBC (Disc 2)

I Thought About You

Miles Davis The Complete Concert 1964 My Funny Valentine + Four & More (Disc 1)

Pretty And High

The Roches The Roches

Walk On

U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind

Rip It Up

Elvis Presley The Million Dollar Quartet

Stackerlee

Tom Rush Blues, Songs & Ballads

Black Dahlia

Bob Belden Black Dahlia

Janis Joplin - Summertime

She looked so old then and looks so young now: Crooks and Liars » Late Night Music Club with Janis Joplin

Barack Obama’s playlist

Inside Barack Obama’s iPod : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily

iTunes Shuffle Playlist

I Want To Be Free

Robert Gordon (With Link Wray)
Robert Gordon w/Link Wray & Fresh Fish Special

Lonely Teardrops (1958)

Jackie Wilson
Mr. Excitement! (Disc 1)

Somewhere

Ballet/Reri Grist & ensemble
West Side Story- Original Broadway Cast

I'd Do Anything

"Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Sheila White, Mark Lester, Ron Moody and Boys"

Oliver!

Own & Own

Butch Hancock
Own And Own

How Insensitive

Sinéad O'Connor
Am I Not Your Girl?

Cleopha

Richard Zimmerman
Scott Joplin: His Complete Works

Sweet Home Chicago

Peter Green
The Robert Johnson Songbook

Geisterreiter (Ghost Riders In the Sky)

Medium Terzett
German Country & Western Masters: Medium Terzett

Sugaree

Jerry Garcia Band
Don't let Go

You're a Better Man Than I

Yardbirds
Yardbirds Reunion Jam

I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)

The Cox Family
"Down From The Mountain: Live Concert Performances By The Artists & Musicians Of ""O Brother, Where Art Thou?"""

Lost My Drivin' Wheel

Tom Rush
The Very Best Of Tom Rush: No Regrets

All Mama's Children

Carl Perkins
Blue Suede Shoes

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose it's Flavor on the Bedpost Over Night

Lonnie Donegan And His Skiffle Group
The Greatest Novelty CD of All Time

Junkie Slip

The Clash
Sandinista! (Disc 2 of 2)

We Can Be Together [Alternate Take]

Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane Loves You (Disc 3)

Song For A Winter's Night

Gordon Lightfoot
The United Artists Collection (Disc 1)

Candela

Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club

White Christmas

Darlene Love
A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector

Ripley Blues

Cannon's Jug Stompers
The Complete Works: 1927 - 1930

In honor of what would've been June Carter Cash's 79th birthday - Ring of Fire

FARK.com: Fark Video Player (3687547) In honor of what would've been June Carter Cash's 79th birthday - Ring of Fire

iPod shuffle playlist

Song Artist Album Give Us A Flag Richie Havens Songs Of The Civil War Bohemian Rhapsody Queen Classic Queen The Red Rooster Howlin' Wolf The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions (Disc 1) Worthy is the Lamb...Amen English Baroque Soloists, J.E. Gardiner and Monteverdi Choir with M. Marshall, C. Robbin, C. Brett, etc.Coro Messiah (Disc 3 of 3) - Part Three I Need You The Pointer Sisters Break Out New Britain: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound Anonymous 4 American Angels Overture The Orchestra Annie Get Your Gun (Music Theater Of Lincoln Center) Beast Of Burden The Rolling Stones Some Girls They Were You Kenneth Nelson, Rita Gardner The Fantasticks (2000 Re-mastered) Siege Of Delhi Boiled In Lead Orb The Lord Will Make A Way The Sounds Of Blackness Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum Doin' A Crime Us3 Broadway & 52nd Walk, Don't Run Worsie Visser Ou Bokke en Groen Blare Your Cheatin' Heart Mary Ford & Les Paul Les Paul & Mary Ford I Can Get Off On You Willie Nelson Willie & Family Live (Disc 1) T.T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune Two) Bill Evans The Tokyo Concert French Suite No. 6 in E major (BWV 817) / Polonaise Johann Sebastian Bach French Suites - Hogwood What's The New Mary Jane The Beatles Anthology 3 (Disc 1) Pencil Neck Geek Fred Blassie The Greatest Novelty CD of All Time The Gospel According To O. Henry Adrian Legg Guitar For Mortals Un Canadien Errant Ian & Sylvia Live At Newport (1965)

iPod shuffle playlist

Buena Vista Social Club	De Camino a La Vereda	Buena Vista Social Club
The Rolling Stones	Honky Tonk Women	Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! [LIVE]
Lou Reed	Power & Glory Part II	Magic & Loss
Robert Gordon (With Link Wray)	Blue Eyes (Don't Run Away)	Fresh Fish Special
Vampire Weekend	Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa	Vampire Weekend
Fleetwood Mac	Although The Sun Is Shining	The Vaudeville Years - 1968 To 1970 (Disc 1)
Black Eyed Peas	Shut Up	Elephunk
Jim Carroll Band	Nothing Is True	Catholic Boy
Gillian Welch	Winter's Come And Gone	Hell Among The Yearlings
Abdullah Ibrahim	Tsakve	Africa - Tears And Laughter
Santana	Primavera	Supernatural
Neville Brothers	You're Gonna Make Your Momma Cry	Mitakuye Oyasin Oyasin (All My Relations)
Bruce Springsteen	Give The Girl A Kiss	Tracks (Disc 1) [Box Set]
Robert Gordon (With Link Wray)	Sea Cruise	Fresh Fish Special
Otis Redding	Tramp	The Ultimate Otis Redding
U2	Seconds	War
The Clash	The Card Cheat	London Calling
Charlie Musselwhite	My Baby	Stand Back!
The Doors	Break on Through	The Doors
Ibrahim Ferrer	Guateque Campesino (Son Montuno / Guajira)	Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
The Who	Christmas [Live]	Isle Of Wight - 1

Happy 93rd birthday, Les Paul. Here he is, a-pickin' and a-grinnin' with Mary Ford in 1954

Let's see: guitar, guitar picking, recording techniques, harmonies. We pretty much wouldn't have music if it wasn't for Les Paul. And, while we're at it, let's remember how good Mary Ford was, a singer and a guitar player in her own right: FARK.com: Fark Video Player (3657059) Happy 93rd birthday, Les Paul. Here he is, a-pickin' and a-grinnin' with Mary Ford in 1954

iTunes shuffle playlist

Alabama 3	Bullet Proof
The Original Five Blind Boys Of Alabama	I'll Fly Away
Alabama 3	The Night We Nearly Got Busted
The Original Five Blind Boys Of Alabama	I've Got A Home
The Blind Boys Of Alabama	No More
The Original Five Blind Boys Of Alabama	Count Me In
Grateful Dead	Alabama Getaway >
Alabama Sacred Harp Singers	Antioch - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
The Original Five Blind Boys Of Alabama	This May Be The Last Time
The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama featuring Clarence Fountain	Deep River (Part One)
Alabama Sacred Harp Singers	Calvary - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
Marianne Faithfull	Alabama Song
The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama featuring Clarence Fountain	Reminiscing
Leon Redbone	Alabama Jubilee
The Blind Boys Of Alabama	Nobody's Fault But Mine
Alabama 3	Badlands/Lord Have Mercy
The Blind Boys Of Alabama	The Last Time
Alabama 3	Two Heads
The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama featuring Clarence Fountain	Deep River (Part Two)
Alabama 3	Woke Up This Morning

Curtis Mayfield - People Get Ready

Curtis Mayfield would have been 66 today. Here's Curtis performing one of his most frequently covered songs: YouTube - Curtis Mayfield - People Get Ready

Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79

The Associated Press: Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79

Tim Buckley - Buzzin Fly

One of the sweetest songs from the great folk music scare of the 60s: YouTube - Tim Buckley Buzzin Fly - Radio Toast for Cancer Research. Tim Buckley died from a heroin overdose in 1975.

The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time : Rolling Stone

Mostly, lists such as this, The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time : Rolling Stone, are kindling for arguments, particularly if you try to claim that "You Really Got Me" is eight places better than "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". Nevertheless, there's a lot of good stuff here.

Via Fark Music, who reports "It proves, once again, submitter's theory that 60s music > 70s music > 80s music > 90s music > 00s music."

What's on RoasterBoy's iPod?

Izabella	Jimi Hendrix
The Lowlands [f/Jaime Hanna & Jonathan MC Euen]	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Happy Feelin'	Earth Wind & Fire
Tennesee Stud	Johnny Cash
Give The Fiddler A Dram	Garnet Rogers
Introduction	Jimi Hendrix
Complainte Pour Ste Catherine	Kate & Anna McGarrigle
One Way Ticket	Leann Rimes
The Torture Never Stops Part Two	Frank Zappa
Lonely In Love	Lyle Lovett
A Hard Day's Night	The Beatles
Fire And Brimstone	Neville Brothers
Mystery Train	Paul Butterfield
Burn On	Randy Newman
One Bullet	Garnet Rogers
Africa Unite	Bob Marley
If Only She Woulda	Frank Zappa
Little miss Emperor	Iggy Pop
Who Are The Brain Police?	Frank Zappa
Solid Gone (Live)	David Bromberg

A sampling of what comes up when I put my iPod on shuffle mode.

Theme from The Andy Griffith Show

If you have to have a tune stuck in your head, this is a good one: The Fishin' Hole (theme to The Andy Griffith Show) by Andy Griffith Songfacts

MilkandCookies - Muppets: I'm My Own Grandpa

MilkandCookies - Muppets: I'm My Own Grandpa

Shuffling through iTunes

When I put my iTunes library on shuffle, here's what shows up:

Name	Artist
Cotton Eyed Joe	The Mountain Ramblers
Living In The Country	Pete Seeger
Run Run Run	The Velvet Underground
Saint Of Circumstance	Grateful Dead
Need Your Love So Bad - Version #1	Fleetwood Mac
Brother	Gil Scott-Heron
Ladies Auxiliary	Woody Guthrie
There's A Doctor	The Who
Rendezvous	Bruce Springsteen
No. 5 in D Major	Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Love That Burns	Fleetwood Mac
Compared to What	Eddie Harris & Les McCann

You want riffs? Junior Brown's got riffs.

FARK.com: Fark Video Player (3595642) Junior Brown can rock

Ozzy Osbourne › Crazy Train

I accidentally cut the antenna lead on my satellite radio while I was load pallets into the back of my car. So, now, I'm left with terrestrial radio. Mostly, it's pretty bleak so I scan a lot stations. Last night, my meanderings brought me to WHJY 95.5 out of Providence. This Ozzy song caught my attention, but the banter between the DJ and sidekick was quite forgettable.

Hayes Carll - A Lover Like You

It's got that jangly style of Dylan's Blonde on Blonde with the Austin, wise-guy redneck twang.

David Bromberg - Mr. Bojangles

David Bromberg played guitar in Jerry Jeff Walker's band while Mr. Bojangles was JJW's big hit. (It was an even bigger hit for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.) IMO, Bromberg's version is much better, his voice cracking at all the right turns.

Riffs at the heart of our brains

The video clips don't always synch with the music, but, what the heck: MilkandCookies - Rock & Roll Riffs 1964 to 1975

Willie Nelson - Crazy

Happy 75th Birthday, Willie.

Randy Newman’s ‘Louisiana 1927’

Long before Katrina, New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana faced mighty floods. This past Sunday, the New York Times ran an article about Randy Newman’s ‘Louisiana 1927’ and the story behind the song.

Here's Randy Newman performing the song on YouTube.

the Big Mattress: Videos from WBCN

Charles Laquidara returns for the 'bcn 40th anniversary: the Big Mattress: Videos from WBCN

Whole Lotta Shakin' | A Documentary Series on Rockabilly Music

Whole Lotta Shakin' | A Documentary Series on Rockabilly Music

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Maybe it's impossible, but it seems that if you win a war, but leave the vanquished with some honor, the war will be over a lot sooner. (American war between the states, Germany after WWI.)

You take what you need and leave the rest.
But, they should never have taken the very best.
MilkandCookies - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield - Green Onions

Tasty bits from their live Super Session album (the part of the album where Mike Bloomfield hasn't been sedated because he took too much speed).

NPR Driveway Moments All About Animals: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go (Npr Driveway Moments): Steve Inskeep: Music

Clever, cute, and heart-warming stories about animals and what they teach us about ourselves: Amazon.com: NPR Driveway Moments All About Animals: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go (Npr Driveway Moments): Steve Inskeep: Music

Miles Davis. John Coltrane. "So What".

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3549179) Miles Davis. John Coltrane. "So What". This is what the Cool tag was invented for

Love - Alone Again Or

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3545669) Love performs “Alone Again Or” from their classic album “Forever Changes” backed by a full orchestra with strings section

Ann Arbor - Dancing in the Fast Lane (KFJC)

I started listening to KFJC when I was visiting Rational's Cupertino office. Ann Arbor has a wonderfully wild taste in music from Tasty Masala to pretty much everything else.

Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning (remixes)

Their Remix Bonus CD includes several different flavors of their classic (also known as the theme from The Sopranos).

Garnet Rogers - Get a Witness (Live)

Good tunes of being on the road too long, lots of different roads, including a strong cover of Brother Stan's Northwest Passage.

"There's no Hank or Merle or Johnny, now. You can't hear them anymore.
Just redneck clowns in stupid hats ..."

Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3532587) Curtis Mayfield perforns "Pusherman" on the wildly unpopular show "Night Music"

YouTube - Al Green Tired of Being Alone Live

Happy Birthday, Rev. Al.
YouTube - Al Green Tired of Being Alone Live

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

As powerful a love song as you'll find anywhere - YouTube - Try A Little Tenderness Live- Otis Redding

It's easy when listening to the explosive vocal performance to miss the simple beauty of the rhythm section, the simple clicking of the drummer, the nifty loop of the base and guitar players (Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper?), and, of course, the Bar-Kay horn section. None better.

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

This album is pretty consistently #2 on my favorite Dylan album list. (Blood on the Tracks is always #1.) From the time I first heard it on an old record player at the camp (the album owned by my mother's college friend, Joe C.) until listening on my iPod on this morning's walk, the music always delights and challenges. Although most of the tunes rock out with an all-star band, the album's anchor is the acoustic Desolation Row.

B-52s - Funplex

Their first album in 15 or so years. While there's nothing that's terribly new in here (includes live versions of Planet Claire and Private Idaho), it's good, solid danceable music with their particular style of charming naughtiness.

U2 Pride (in the Name of Love)

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3514033) Free at last -- they took your life -- they could not take your pride

Richard Manuel - "I Shall Be Released"

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3511656) Here is Richard Manuel singing "I Shall Be Released" with The Band. It's his birthday, and submitter and all of his fans hope that he finally was.

Richard Manuel committed suicide in 1986.

Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing (with a swing)

This one is always on any of my lists of best song/recording ever.

MilkandCookies - Peter Gabriel: In Your Eyes

MilkandCookies - Peter Gabriel: In Your Eyes

Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Nomathemba

From the Long Walk to Freedom soundtrack.

Getting ready for the real start of the baseball season

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3493646) The King covers "Sweet Caroline." Complete with sweet dance moves

Gnarls Barkley - Who's gonna save my soul

Modern R&B with a classic Al Green feel.

Electric Flag - Another Country

As with so many talented folks, Mike Bloomfield died too young, died of just too much of too much. He founded the Electric Flag after leaving the Butterfield band in 1968. The one album, A Long Time Comin', had rich talent - Nick Gravenites, Buddy Miles, Harvey Brooks - and laid out a rich set of complex tunes with amazing blues threads holding it all together. The sweetness of Easy Rider sits up there with Peter Green's Albatross in my blues licks hall of fame.

Wormtown Underground Radio Network

Wormtown Underground Radio Network

3 Mustaphas 3 - Soba Song

Let's see, we have a west Texas swing song extolling the virtues of a Japanese noodle soup, modulo some klezmer and middle Eastern woodwinds. It's like tuning into four or five radio stations at once.

Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan

Back in the day, before iPods, I had small MP3 player that could hold four CDs. Most commonly, I'd put the playback on a loop and listen while trying sleep on the red-eye back from California. This was one of the albums, along with Jimi Hendrix's Blues, U2's Rattle and Hum, and Peter Gabriel's live album.

WBCN-FM: March 15, 1968 - New England Music Scrapbook

Happy Belated Birthday, 'bcn. WBCN-FM: March 15, 1968 - New England Music Scrapbook

I found the station late one night in April of '68. They played the long version of The Doors' Light My Fire, which caught my attention as I was spinning the FM dial. The next song, Paul Butterfield's East-West, is a permanent fixture in my playlist.

Thanks to Laughing Goose the Weatherman, aka Charles Laquidara, for posting this.

Van Morrison - Hymns to the Silence

Title track from one of The Belfast Cowboy's best albums.

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

The sound track to their concert film is a great collection of music for walking or other exercise. The rhythms are strong and the musical and lyrical hooks are great. For example, here's Life During Wartime.

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'

Sleeps with Butterflies: Hear My Train A Comin'

Rolling Stones - favorite albums

It's a coin-toss between Exile on Main Street and Beggar's Banquet. The former is a bit stronger musically, while the latter tells better stories.

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

As with Curtis Mayfield around the time of Superfly, this song and album is a deep and unending ache for what's happening on the street corner. Gaye, however, not only looks at the drugs and gangs and violence, but also looks up and around to see the bigger issues of the environment and the economy and how they, too, are destroying life in the city.

Interesting, too, how the background strings add sweetness while the lyrics and rhythm section keep punching forward. By comparison, here's Freddy's Dead without strings.

YouTube - Vampire Weekend- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Great guitar hook: YouTube - Vampire Weekend- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Van Halen - Dreams

Most of VH's best stuff, of course, comes from the David Lee Roth years, but Dreams is great showcase for Sammy Hagar, as well as Eddie on keyboards. (DLR's Jump also includes a good keyboard-as-rhythm-section.)

Dreams came out about the same time as the Challenger explosion and I still associate the tune with the images of the twisting smoke in the sky. This video shows the Blue Angels in their maneuvers with the song as a backdrop.

YouTube - Jonathan Richman- Roadrunner

Probably the only song that mentions Stop & Shop: YouTube - Jonathan Richman- Roadrunner

YouTube - The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (live)

Happy Birthday, Roger Daltry - YouTube - The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (live)

Best rock 'n roll scream evar.

OH, BY THE WAY, DID YOU KNOW THAT PETE TOWNSHEND IS ALMOST DEAF?

Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson

"I'm black. I'll never let them forget it."

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YouTube - U2 When Love Comes To Town live from Rotterdam,Lovetown 1990

With B.B. King: YouTube - U2 When Love Comes To Town live from Rotterdam,Lovetown 1990

American Masters . Pete Seeger | PBS

American Masters . Pete Seeger | PBS

The Torture Playlist

Your defense dollars at work. Here's a sample of some of the music that is being played to disorient detainees. Via Mother Jones magazine: The Torture Playlist

Jefferson Starship - Blows Against the Empire

Hijack a starship ("it ought to be ready by 1990") and escape to the new Eden in space. At once grand and supremely silly.

YouTube - Christina Aguilera "It's A Man's World" @ The 49th Grammy's

Brother Mike sent a pointer to this version of the James Brown classic.

Fleetwood Mac - Albatross

This is one of the sweetest instrumentals in my collection. And, it's certainly not to be confused with Monty Python's "'Course you don't don't get bloody wafers with it." Albatross.

Me and Bobby Mcgee

At one point in the early 70s, you could find three versions of this song on the jukebox:

1. Gordon Lightfoot's/a>. iirc, this was the first one released.
   
2. Kris Kristofferson (the author). He sounds drunk on this version.
   
3. Janis Joplin's, the one that most of us remember.
   
   

YouTube - Ian Tyson Sylvia Fricker Judy Collins "Someday Soon" live

Wanna feel old? These videos come from an Ian and Sylvia reunion 20 years ago. They look ok, but the other performers, Judy Collins, Gordon Lightfoot, and others, were already betraying high mileage.

• YouTube - Ian Tyson Sylvia Fricker Judy Collins "Someday Soon" live
  
• Early Morning Rain
• You were on my mind
  

The Carter Family - Waitin' On The Far Side Banks Of Jordan

One of the saddest, most hopeful songs. Ever.

And When I See You Coming I Will Rise Up With A Shout
And Come Running Through The Shallow Water Reaching For Your Hand

February 18th: On this Day in music

This day in Music, Brian Wilson recorded Good Vibrations

YouTube - Magic Dick Whammer Jammer!

How it is done: YouTube - Magic Dick Whammer Jammer!

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

Geographic cure via YouTube video: Today's Music: "No Depression"

YouTube - Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat

Ridin' a pony on my boat: YouTube - Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat

Don Robichaud - Wooden Ships

RIP DER

Abdullah Ibrahim - Siya Hamba Namhlanje (We Are Leaving Today)

A plaintive song about the forced relocations during the apartheid years in South Africa.

YouTube - God's Song (Randy Newman) - The Truth

"Lord, if you won't take care us, would you please, please let us be."

YouTube - God's Song (Randy Newman) - The Truth

MilkandCookies - Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues (Hughes Brothers Video)

Makes me wanna holler: MilkandCookies - Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues (Hughes Brothers Video)

YouTube - Willie Nelson - Amazing Grace

There are lots and lots of versions of this song, versions with great and strong voices, the heart-breaking renditions of pipers at funerals, and many others. What I like about Willie Nelson's versions is that they're sung by someone who is truly grateful to be redeemed from sin. The operatic versions sound great, but they miss the story of someone standing and shivering in front of one's past. Willie gets that.

YouTube - Jimi Hendrix - Royal Albert Hall 1969 Causes Near Riot

YouTube - Jimi Hendrix - Royal Albert Hall 1969 Causes Near Riot

via Milk and Cookies

YouTube - Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure

Not only is this is a great song, it shows off how well David Bowie does duets. He finds the right balance whether working with a voice as strong as Freddie Mercury's or an ego the size of Mick Jagger's or as rich a baritone as Bing Crosby's.

Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything

There ought to be a way for us to reward a singular achievement properly, such that the artist/creator can live well and satisfied and we don't have to endure their labored attempts to equal or exceed their nearly perfect first outings. For example, Cyndi Lauper should never have to make another record. She's So Unusual was and is so outstanding - the combination of some of the song-writing ever with her great, great pipes - that it needs nothing else, certainly not a follow-up album.

Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell album comes to mind as another in this class - such a solid, complete performance that pretty much ends a career as well as starts one.

YouTube - Marianne Faithfull, Broken English

YouTube - Marianne Faithfull, Broken English

And while you're at it, on this election day, here's her version of John Lennon's Working Class Hero.

Curtis Mayfield - Move on up

There are so many things right about this tune - the beat, the lyrics,
the singing.

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Happy 60th Birthday, Vince Furnier, aka Alice Cooper

Also, Happy Almost 18th Birthday, MFH. This song, written and delivered quite a while ago, still tells the story of eighteen years old better than any other song I know: I'm Eighteen

YouTube - Step Right Up (Tom Waits)

With a voice like rocks in a metal bucket, Tom Waits 'splains our As Seen on TV world: Step Right Up.

The large print giveth while the small print taketh away.

Rolling Stones - You can't always what you want

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YouTube - Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

YouTube - Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

YouTube - Dave Brubeck - Take Five

You'd be hard pressed to find a more nerdly-looking bunch, but this tune, nearly 50 years old and with its iconic 5/4 time, still defines cool: YouTube - Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Fleetwood Mac - Oh, Well (Live at the Boston Tea Party)

The Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac shows off its stuff in this somewhat-hard-to-find recording from 1969.

January 30, 1969: The Beatles make their last public appearance with a free rooftop concert. "Get Back."

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3363759) January 30, 1969: The Beatles make their last public appearance with a free rooftop concert. "Get Back."

Fred Neil- The Dolphins

Another old folkie gem - YouTube - The Dolphins. We mostly know Fred Neil from Everybody's Talkin', popularized by Harry Nilsson as a part of the soundtrack for Midnight Cowboy.

The music in our heads

From time to time, we all have songs stuck in our heads. The folks in this story (NPR: Hearing Things: When Sounds Come Unbidden), however, get music delivered through their own, bored auditory systems.

Paul Butterfield - East-West

The title track of one of the most interesting albums that I've owned. (I bought the vinyl album about 40 years ago, replaced it with a CD in the 80s, and have listened to it on my iPod since 2004.) The album is a mix of blues standards with a pop/jazz tune (Cannonball Adderly's Work Song) and East-West, a stretched-out jam influenced by the raga rage of the 60s.

Emmylou Harris - The Maker

A fine cover of a Daniel Lanois tune.

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Georgie Fame and his Blue Flames: Yeh Yeh (1965) / Co-authored by Pat Patrick

Deval Patrick's father, Pat Patrick, wasn't much of a father, but ran with a good crowd as a jazz musician:
Patrick shaped by father's absence - The Boston Globe.

YouTube - Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up

YouTube - Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up

Or, if you'd like to have it shaken up a bit, here's Don't Give Up with Willie Nelson and Sinead O'Connor.

YouTube - Jefferson Starship -- Wooden Ships

How the hippies survived: Jefferson Starship -- Wooden Ships

YouTube - Phil Ochs - Power and Glory

Strength and wisdom side-by-side with a deep and relentless pain: Phil Ochs on Midnight Special, with an intro by Curtis Mayfield.

YouTube - John Coltrane - My Favorite Things - 1961

YouTube - John Coltrane - My Favorite Things - 1961

As memorable as Coltrane's performance is, the rhythm section, particularly McCoy Tyner, is the Atlas to Coltrane's new world.

Jennifer Warnes: First We Take Manhattan

Most folks know Jennifer Warnes from her duet with Bill Medley (Righteous Brothers) on I've Had The Time of My Life, a nice tune that's been seared into our prefrontal cortexes by those Sandals ads. You might also know her from her duet with Joe Cocker on Up Where We Belong. Excellent songs both. Nevertheless, imho, her talent is established on her album of Leonard Cohen songs, Famous Blue Raincoat, which include First We Take Manhattan.

YouTube - Neil Young - Sugar Mountain (acoustic)

YouTube - Neil Young - Sugar Mountain (acoustic)

U2 Pride Live From Syracuse,NY(Joshua Tree Tour 1987)

U2 Pride Live From Syracuse,NY(Joshua Tree Tour 1987)

YouTube - Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat

YouTube - Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat

Pete Seeger-Waist Deep In The Big Muddy

From the Smothers Brothers show: YouTube - Pete Seeger-Waist Deep In The Big Muddy

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

The story about just about every kid who picked up a Fender guitar and had a dream.

YouTube - MIKE BLOOMFIELD :ALBERT'S SHUFFLE

YouTube - MIKE BLOOMFIELD :ALBERT'S SHUFFLE

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3334828) Muddy Waters live in 1968, doing Long Distance Call. Bonus: Otis Spann on piano

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3334828) Muddy Waters live in 1968, doing Long Distance Call. Bonus: Otis Spann on piano

Nils Lofgren - No Mercy

A sharp, little story about a boxer. It's also a keen reminder of the depth of the talent in the E Street Band.

YouTube - Randy Newman - Sail Away

American history retold from the deck of a slave ship: YouTube - Randy Newman - Sail Away

YouTube - Garland Jeffreys - Hail Hail Rock 'N Roll

YouTube - Garland Jeffreys - Hail Hail Rock 'N Roll

YouTube - The Rolling Stones - Love In Vain

YouTube - The Rolling Stones - Love In Vain

Listening to the Stones naturally leads to other artists, such as Chuck Berry and the Temptations. On this Chuck Berry clip, however, you'll need some ear bleach; the Bee Gees join in the chorus. Better to find something like this medley of Promised Land and Memphis.

The Stones included one Motown cover song on nearly all of their albums. This Temptations tune, Ain't Too Proud to Beg, which was It's Only Rock and Roll.

YouTube - The Velvet Underground - Heroin

Friend Ken, tall and lanky, looking like Cookie Monster, died a junkie's death in a burned-out van a number of years ago. Each time I hear this song, I remember him.

Even on the underground radio stations in the late 60s into the 70s, this song was banned because it told the story too well.

YouTube - The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (Live)

PBS has been teasing its Jane Austen series with the Cowboy Junkies refrain of Lou Reed's Sweet Jane (Live with The Velvet Underground).

MilkandCookies - Animaniacs: Yakko's Universe Song

It's a great big universe and we're all real puny. We're just tiny, little specks, about the size of Mickey Rooney.

MilkandCookies - Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Live

MilkandCookies - Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Live. More, from Wikipedia.

James Brown - It's A Man's World

I'm never sure what to think or say about this song. From one side, it's arrogant, sexist, and demeaning to women. From another, its ache is like no other.

Add to Luciano Pavarotti and, well, I don't know what you get.

On that theme, though, of why men do what they do, here's Al Bundy's take.

Old folkies

Today's Boston Globe has a review of a show at Passim's this past Sunday. The show included lots of performers from the Boston folk music scene of decades past. These people were an essential part of our sound track. It's not only impressive that these musicians are still performing, but also remembering that they were so damn good when they were so much younger.

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3315843) Bob Dylan shows Donovan a thing or two..."Love Minus Zero/No Limit"

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3315843) Bob Dylan shows Donovan a thing or two..."Love Minus Zero/No Limit"

From "No Direction Home"

YouTube - The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

From Charles Laquidara's blog: YouTube - The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

YouTube - elvis presley-hound dog-1956

Happy Birthday, Elvis: YouTube - elvis presley-hound dog-1956