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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