SteveAudio (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Put me in, coach! The first Super Bowl halftime show featured trumpeter Al Hirt, joined by the marching bands from the University of Arizona and Grambling University, along with some high school marching band members to fill up the field. Like the game itself, Super Bowl halftime shows became more and more extravagant with the passing years, reaching their apex with Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe...
Marty's Fiber Musings (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
I did a little blog reading this afternoon...so far behind...and am so excited to see that most of my "Creative Friends" are well into great projects. So where am I? I haven't touched the sewing machine in three weeks. And it will probably be another one before I get 'round toit. But I have learned a lot about altering photos. My blog has turned into a scrapbook instead of a quilt book! I...
OUR NEW ORLEANS SAINTS (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Lil Hap and I went to the Louisiana Sacredome last night to catch the MONSTER TRUCK experience. First, it was awesome in scope, noise level, and New Orleanity . Sure trucks bounced all around. Motorcycles jumped and did flips. For Lil Hap's first trip to the Sacredome he got to see it almost FULL! He really thought that the SAINTS would be driving some of the trucks, too! The MONSTER TRUCK THAT WON...
Top of Texas Gazette (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
There were other options for the title, most involving "ass" and "blow it out". The first thing I thought was I bet that guy thought " Al Hirt that donkey's ears." Latest Activity
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 01/17/2010
New Orleans Jazz Festival Turk Murphy Columbia Records THE New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival started in 1970 with performances by Mahalia Jackson and Duke Ellington, Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Clifton Chenier, Fats Domino, The [...]
westcoastmusic (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
Award-winning recording artist, songwriter and guitarist Steve Wariner has earned a Grammy® nomination for Best Country Instrumental Performance with "Producer's Medley" from Steve Wariner, c.g.p., My Tribute to Chet Atkins. Produced by Wariner, the album honors the legendary guitarist and...
The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 01/05/2010
The Peerless Prognosticator is ON THE AIR!!! The Caps return home this evening for a contest with the Montreal Canadiens. A home game has been a rare occurence for the Caps, their having skated on home ice only five times since Thanksgiving. "Monsieur Peerless, Monsieur Peerless…" Who's that? "It's me, your old pal Frenchy..." Listen, Frenchy, let me ask you something. Do...
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 12/27/2009
The Spotted Cat has always been a bit of a hole, with feeble A/C and bathrooms that make you wish there was a yard out back. It has none of the brick-back-wall, cocktail-waitress ambiance of the Snug Harbor across Frenchman, the city’s bastion of two-set, two-drink minimum traveling jazz artists, or the Tremé cache of [...]
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 12/21/2009
Okay, this is yet another self-indulgent childhood story, but I hope you'll stick with me even though I've told a version of it before. Trust me -- there's a couple of audio kickers at the end that will make it worth your while. So, as I've mentioned on a previous occasion or two, I was one of the gazillion kids back in the mid-Sixties who took a gawk at The Beatles on TV and thought, hey, that looks...
Santas Working Overtime (Free subscription) | 12/17/2009
Um desejo de Natal and Viva o Natal! Feliz Ano Novo - 1990 @ Cantos&Encantos Bobby Breen - Songs At Yuletide @ A Christmas Yuleblog Rumble Santa @ Big Rock Candy Mountain Texas Gypsies: 'Every Kind of Christmas' @ Cahl's Juke Joint banjo or freakout Xmas Album The Sixteenth Day of Mellowmas: The Gaga Mellowmas Failure Boris Karloff, "The Year Without a Santa Claus" @ Popdose John Klein...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Airto - Fingers ( ) Airto Moreira - Fingers (King Japan ) Al Hirt - Souvenirs (Fuel 2000 ) Alex Malheiros / Sabrina Malheiros - Wave ( ) Alvin Queen - I Ain't Looking At You (Justin Time) Alvin Queen - Mighty Long Way (Justin Time ) Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower ( ) Art Farmer / Jim Hall - Big Blues ( ) Astrud Gilberto - Gilberto With Turrentine ( ) Bill Dixon - Tapestries For Small Orchestra...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- THE WHO, one of the world's greatest and most dynamic rock and roll bands, will perform in the BRIDGESTONE SUPER BOWL XLIV HALFTIME SHOW on CBS Sports at Dolphin Stadium in South Florida on Sunday, February 7, the NFL announced today durin...
Undercover Black Man (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I like this concept, y’all. I like it a lot. If you know other songs that belong on this list, let me know in the comments section. 1. “Anna (Go to Him)” – The Beatles Early in their nightclub and recording careers, the Beatles performed many songs by black songwriters. Not only hall-of-famers like Chuck Berry and Smokey Robinson, but forgotten artists such as Larry Williams,...
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Btms^ for Saturday, November 7. Drink 4cast 4 2day: Share Caymus Conundrum White Wine w/ Friends (& Strangers!) 2 toast 2 Albert Camus born 2day in 1913. Cheers 2day 2…the U of L Cards as they take on WVU, and to the match up of the UK Cats and EKU Colonels! November 7, Buy A Try Beers @ The Barns: [...]
Vancouver Opera Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
There just SOMETHING about The Flight of the Bumblebee ! Not only do we recognize it from the Green Hornet tv series from yesteryear, but various artists such as jazz artist Al Hirt, rockabilly Brian Setzer and heavy metal band Manowar have put their own unique spin on the tune. And if you can believe it, Brazilian Tiago della Vega absolutely shredded his guitar breaking the 2008 Guiness World Record...
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