On this Sunday morning I hope all is well with you and yours. Today's gospel blues selection is a favorite of mine, "John the Revelator". John The Revelator mp3s @Amazon.com According to wikipedia; "John the Revelator" is a traditional Gospel/blues call and response song.[1] In the chorus, John of Patmos, the traditional author of the Book of Revelation, is writing "the book...
MUSIC FOR THE NIGHT 1. The Microphones - The Moon 2. Mogwai - Cody 3. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground 4. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Half Ghost 5. Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long 6. Mount Eerie - The Death Of Night 7. Death Cab For Cutie - Passenger Seat 8. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes 9. Yann Tiersen - Comtine d'un Autre Ete: La'pres Midi 10....
Join me for an evening of Tom Waits to celebrate his 60th birthday. Tales of circus folk, pyromaniac husbands and an assortment of other odd characters. What better way to spend a dark, winter's evening. Tracklist Lie To Me - Tom Waits I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You - Tom Waits Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl Step Right Up - Tom Waits Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton Heartattack And Vine - Tom Waits...
See the full interview here I started playing in the mid 1970's. I was born in East Chicago, Indiana, in 1962. When I was six or so my family moved to Davenport, Iowa. That's where I grew up, mostly. None of the other kids at school were into what I was; you may remember this was the era of disco and heavy metal, nobody I knew was really into blues or folk music. I was always fascinated by acoustic...
Today is the birthday of Bukka White. He was born November 12, 1909 and passed away February 26, 1977. According to Wikipedia Bukka White (November 12, 1909 -- February 26, 1977) was a delta blues guitarist and singer. "Bukka" was not a nickname, but a misspelling of White's Christian name by his second (1937) record label, (Vocalion). Born Booker T. Washington White near Houston, Mississippi,...
I get a lot of press releases forward to me which usually get forwarded directly into my gmail archive. But this one I'm happy to pass along: Third Man Records is releasing A Glorious Dawn . You know the Carl Sagan remix (w/ guest appearance of the Hawkmeister) that I've been looping over and over again while I work: Third Man Records is over the moon to announce the 7-inch release of "A Glorious...
Third Man Records is over the moon to announce the 7-inch release of “A Glorious Dawn” on November 9th. “A Glorious Dawn” is a moving arrangement of Carl Sagan*’s sagacious words culled from his magnificent “Cosmos” series. The piece initially gained recognition when composer John Boswell uploaded to YouTube his remixed Sagan dialogue edited, Auto-Tuned and...
Public Enemies is a 2009 American crime film co-written and directed by Michael Mann. Set during the Great Depression, it focuses on the true story of FBI agent Melvin Purvis's attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd. The film is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34.
"If my soul be lost, its nobody's fault but mine." Man those lines are haunting me on this Sunday. Please join with me and a few of my favorite blues and rock musicians as they contemplate the immortal words of the good and righteous Blind Willie Johnson. Nobody's Fault But Mine by Led Zeppelin (MP3 Download)
Presocratic Blues , Joel Bettridge (Chax, 2009) One of my favorite college assignments of all time was a take-home midterm in Nick Smith's "History of Philosophy" ("part I: Presocratics thru Plato") course back at Tech. Nick handed out an unidentified presocratic fragment (he'd written it himself, of course), & our assignment was to identify its "author" on the basis...
"...I go on/ Sounding my doomed eternal bodiless goddamned/ I, I, I, I, I." --T.R. Hummer 1. JoeF- A Means To An End (Joy Division) 2. JoeF- Satellite Of Love (Velvet Underground) 3. JoeF- Venus In Furs (Velvet Underground) 4. Here & Now- Another Brick In The Wall (Pink Floyd) 5. I just don't know- One Mint Julep (Rudy Toombs/The Clovers) 1. Hood Internet- Fire It Up, Firemouse (Lil Wayne...
Public Enemies is a 2009 American crime film co-written and directed by Michael Mann. Set during the Great Depression, it focuses on the true story of FBI agent Melvin Purvis's attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd. The film is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34.
Soundtrack and lyrics movie Public Enemies with Johnny Depp, The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. Lyrics and clip Public Enemies Am I Blue? Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra Bye Bye Blackbird - listen Diana Krall Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground - listen Blind Willie Johnson Love Me