Sir Charlie Palmer (Free subscription) | 12/12/2009
http://www.mediafire.com/?y2z2gmyytfl Track listing 1. Good Morning, School Girl - Sonny Boy Williamson 2. My Baby Left Me - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup 3. Worried Life Blues - Big Maceo Merriweather 4. Going Down Slow - James Oden 5. Grinder Man Blues - Memphis Slim 6. Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams 7. Midnight Special, The - Leadbelly/Golden Gate Quartet 8. Sweet Little Angel - Tampa...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Today is the anniversary of the death in 1984 of Alberta Hunter . Although I never saw her in person, I remember discovering her in the 1970's during her re-emergence on the music scene. "Handy Man" (1981): 10 minute excerpt from a video overviewing her life and career: She was born in Memphis in 1895. She moved to Chicago in her teens to become a professional singer. She retired in 1956,...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
LGBT people born today: 1886 – Spring Byington – US Actress – Died 7th September 1971 1895 – Clifford Kitchen – UK Author / Barrister – Died 4th April 1967 1917 – Sumner Locke Elliott – Australian / US Author – Died 24th June 1991 1920 – Montgomery Clift – US Actor – Died 23rd July 1966 1933 – Jeanine Deckers [The Singing...
nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Have you ever walked into a room and there was something happening, such as two people at a piano and everyone around seems to have shut up and is listening intently, almost in awe and you think to yourself - these two are quite special? Then they start playing and you see you're in the presence of excellence? Eubie Blake composed the melody to the Charleston Rag and in fact was ragtime itself around...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
UK Feature Film Director: Arthur Woods Writers: James Bunting, Jack Davies Jr., Paul Perez Cinematographers: Cyril Bristow, Claude Friese-Greene, Phil Grindrod Composers: Lawrence Brewis, Bob Busby, Carl Foulke, Benjamin Frankel, Hans May, Jimmy Messini, Arthur Young Cast: Clifford Mollison, Helen Chandler, Will Hay, The Western Bros., The Three Sailors, Haver and Lee, Clapham and Dwyer, Alberta Hunter...
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
The music is a bit different today. I'm just in the mood for a change, maybe gearing up for tomorrow's festivities! I don't know w here this is originally from, but I found it on an album called Hollywood Heroes. MP3 File yousendit
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
An animal-rights group is offering a cash reward for the arrest and conviction of three men seen shooting at ducklings in a Prairie pond and cracking jokes about it in an internet video.
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Ignoring both the smooth school of jazz vocals and the soft croon of Norah Jones, Catherine Russell digs deep into jazz and blues traditions on Sentimental Streak. One might call her approach old-fashioned, and it is, but the mostly acoustic arrangements and her resonate lower range sound fresh on Sentimental Streak. One might be reminded of the recent Erin McKeown album, Sing You Sinners, another...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
MAY (MAE) ALIX biography (born Liza Mae Alix, August 31, 1904, Chicago Ill.; death information unknown) May Alix was a blues-based cabaret singer in the 1920s. She is best known for the two 1926 recordings she made with LOUIS ARMSTRONG and His Hot Fives. Both tunes - ' 'Big Butter and Egg Man'' and ''Sunset Cafe Stomp'' -- feature Alix's strong and stagy vocals and Armstrong's perfectly executed cornet...
incarnatus est (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Just a little list I put together ( with a tiny bit of help) . 1. "3:10 To Yuma" by Sandy Denny 2. "45th of May" 3. "49 Tons" by Fred Eaglesmith 4. "5.15" by Chris Isaak 5. "5:15" by The Who A 1. "Absolutely Sweet Marie" by Bob Dylan 2. "AC/DC" by Josie Aiello 3. "Across the Tracks Blues" by Duke Ellington 4. "Ain't...
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
Alberta Hunter sure sounds like a spunky woman. Born in Memphis, she left home at age 12 to pursue a singing career in Chicago. And she succeeded. Not only did she become a critically-acclaimed singer, she wrote songs for people like Bessie Smith . Years later, in the 1950's, she left singing, made up a high school diploma, and went to nursing school. She also dated Ethel Waters and was known to prefer...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
Dead Leaf Echo Dead Leaf Echo is the Brooklyn-based art-rock/shoegaze unit founded in 2005 by LG (vocals, guitars, keys), Mike DiLalla (bass), and Liza...
Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 03/28/2009
Healthy Hand has Sooners clicking again, says Jeff Latzke (anyone else flash on the Alberta Hunter classic ?).
Fabulist! (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
The other day, Alberta Hunter was teaching us you're never too old. Today, 13 year old drummer Sara is teaching us you're never too YOUNG. I am digging the hell out of the drumstick twirling. (via)
Ice Cream Ireland (Free subscription) | 12/21/2008
Here’s some of the music we play in our shops, courtesy of ILIKE. ILIKE seems a useful enough tool for sharing music! Yamore by Salif Keita Humours Of Galway by De Dannan Your Feet’s Too Big by Fats Waller Le Bien et Le Mal (Good and Evil) by Souad Massi Sangue De Beirona by Cesaria Evora A Good Man Is Hard [...]
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