A Brief History of “Oh So Many Years” _1_ Norah Jones and Billie Joe Armstrong (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7lZhbCZ4QQ starts at around 23:28, so go back. –Billie heard the Everlys’ Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, and thought, since he was rich and famous, he’d like to cover it. His wife urged Norah,
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Zorg Report: A Brief History of "Oh So Many Years"
A Brief History of “Oh So Many Years” _1_ Norah Jones and Billie Joe Armstrong (2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMj0JlTOwp0 starts at around 23:28, so go back. –Billie heard the Everlys’ Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, and thought, since he was rich and famous, he’d like to cover it. His wife urged Norah,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Following the Ninth
Bill Moyers introduces a film that I, very much, want to see. Watch as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony travels the globe and what it means to people and societies. Filed under: Music Tagged: Beethoven, Following the Ninth, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Nervous Norvus
A song from my childhood was on the satellite radio this evening. Transfusion, by Nervous Norvus. I looked him up on YouTube. He passed away a good many decades ago from alcohol abuse and skipped a chance at appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show to perform Transfusion. He really was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The CBC Signature Series – F Minor: The Fighter.
F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A♭, B♭, C, D♭, and E♭. The harmonic minor raises the E♭ to E♮. Its key signature has four flats (see below: Scales and keys). Its relative major is A-flat major, and its parallel major
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Oh Lily Allen…no… just no
1) I’m sure you didn’t specify “Black bootylicious Twerkers” but I’m POSITIVE you casted for a “look” that your itsy bitsy -can’t-see-beyond-stereotypes- brain can’t comprehend at the moment. 2) Of course you aren’t going to send them away when you found exactly what you were attempting to portray. The intent
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Christmas Music List: Mike Herriott – off the road
Trumpet virtuoso Mike Herriott has a new CD titled “off the road”, available online from www.mikeherriott.com. Awesome music from an amazing musician but if that isn’t enough for you, he grew up in Sin Jawns. Here are some samples: Email newsletters for bands at ReverbNation.com -srbp-
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Brahms, Clarinet Quintet, Opus 115, 3rd Movement.
Andantino in D major, in common time evolving into Presto non assai, ma con sentimento in B minor in 2:4 time The shortest of all four, the movement begins sweetly being one of the composition’s few uplifting passages. In measure twenty-three, the clarinet and violin play as if they
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: In Appreciation of Vintage Music
I was listening the other day to a song sung by Cliff Edwards, Cheating on Me, recorded from an old 78 RPM single. Scratchy, warbly, and a bit thin, but it comes across beautifully across the gap of time. When you listen for a while, the scratches just disappear into
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The new epidemic: Death cults and the culture of despair
An article in The Atlantic speaks to the growing death-fetish that is gripping more and more youth. It is a bad omen for the state of modern industrial civilization as a whole, I would contend, and it indicates a broader trend toward anxiety, hopeless and despair, which must be confronted
Continue readingThings Are Good: Band of the Month: LadyFace
Happy Friday! Today’s Band of the Month is LadyFace. A charming, guitar driven Toronto four-piece, who’s hooks are dead set on having you singing them in your sleep. Chalk full of friendly, fist-in-the-air choral anthems and memorable melodies, LadyFace also exposes a softer side with sweet and sensitive ballads. LadyFace’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: The CBC Signature Series – G Minor the Contrarian
Many thanks to Paolo Pietropaolo and the CBC for bringing us the Signature Series. G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, and F. For the harmonic minor scale, the F is raised to F♯. Its relative major is
Continue readingwmtc: you know her life was saved by rock and roll: lou reed, 1942-2013
Lou Reed, 1942-2013Songwriter, Musician, New Yorker “One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.” – Lou Reed “The first Velvet Underground album only sold 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought it started a band.” – possibly Brian Eno I was shocked and very
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
A reminder not to stereotype people:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interulde: The CBC Signature Series – B Minor – The Wounded Man
B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, and A. The harmonic minor raises the A to A♯. Its key signature has two sharps Its relative major is D major, and its parallel major is B major. Changes needed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Kyrie from Mozart’s Requiem
The first movement of Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, performed by the Bezdin Ensemble, under the direction of Adina Spire, with a graphical score. At the time of Mozart’s death on 5 December 1791, only the opening movement (Requiem aeternam) was completed in all of the orchestral and vocal parts.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Simple pleasures and the greatest of treasures
Ok, it’s that time. Time to put down the pen, or in this case, the keyboard; start cooking dinner – very slowly, for maximum flavour – and cut the grass in the golden sun of the late afternoon… And, crank up the rock and roll on the wireless headphones! Whoo-hoo!
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Celebrating Talent
Convalescing from a wicked cold that’s beating the crap out of me, I watched a trio of movies about amazing musicians: Joe Strummer, Ginger Baker, and Sixto Rodriguez. In the films, other musical geniuses were highlighted along the way. What a delight! But as Ginger, Jack and Eric talked about
Continue readingThings Are Good: Band of the Month: Craig Brown
Happy Friday, readers. After a 2 month hiatus, Band of the Month is back! Today’s band is Craig Brown. A multi-instrumentalist and producer with a great gift of transforming life’s celebrations, insights, and reflection into song both musically and lyrically. Craig Brown has just released his sixth album, Hysteresis. Colourfully
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Gotta catch them all, can you distinguish all 20 variations? 🙂 BWV 582/1: Passacaglia The passacaglia is in 3/4 time typical of the form. Bach’s ostinato comprises eight bars, which is unusual but not unheard of: an ostinato of the same length is used, for example, in Johann
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