It's not often an album from the 60's and 70's takes me totally by surprise, but Swaddling Songs, by Mellow Candle did. This long sought after record still sells for hundreds of pounds among vinyl collectors. In many ways it is typical of the 60s/70s folk rock period; eclectic, with a nod to Trees, Pentangle, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Spyrogira and even CSN, but as a whole it is complete, beautifully...
Examining the re-release of Nyro's overlooked Mother's Spiritual reveals that there is still much to appreciate. Laura Nyro is one of those odd mystical creatures who seems to float somewhere above the cannon of popular music culture. Considered an icon amongst her devotees, without ever achieving mainstream chart success, she was a prolific musician and songwriter up until the release of Mother’s...
From diachrony . Current Book: Inkspell by Conrnelia Funke Current Playlist: Tori Amos’ “Winter Graces” album, Laura Nyro, the soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are . Current Guilty Pleasure: Petrellicest (fan fic about Nathan/Peter Petrelli from the TV show Heroes .) Current Color: Pink, always. Current Drink: Diet Mountain Dew Ultra-violet soda. Celestial Seasonings Vanilla Hazelnut...
As the adverts always have it - NEW! IMPROVED! VIM! And, no doubt, ZIP A DEE DOO-DAH! too So, Vim is a concept that can mean many things to many people. Over on the Mothership, some people seem to have objected to the idea that up tempo songs automatically means vimminess, but I don't know about that, one woman's Vim is another woman's Cillit Bang. Personally, a toe-tapping quality switches on my vim...
Such are the nominees this year for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Patrick Goldstein moans: It's pretty pathetic when you consider that you can vote for the Chantels and Darlene Love, but not for Linda Ronstadt, Steve Miller, Chicago, Rush, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Journey, Dire Straits or Stevie Ray Vaughan, just to name a few of the ineligible worthies... Those of us who are actual voters are...
I was a rock critic in a past life, so every year around this time, I still get a ballot allowing me to vote for my favorite nominees in the annual election at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
I've become a bit obsessed by this song recently- It's called "Timer" and it's by Laura Nyro , and I've known it for years but recently I've become completely fascinated by it, as its strangeness, rather than wearing off through familiarity has increased. On first hearing it sounds like what it basically is - a Brill Building style 60's pop song with pretensions. But on repeated listenings...
I worried that Rickie Lee Jones's 13th album might involve an extension of the overtly Christian ruminations of 2007's unsatisfying The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard; but it seems employed here in a more general metaphorical sense, of music as spiritual medicine. That's certainly the impression given by the reflective blues-jazz piece "Blue Ghazel", whose wordless vocal hums and growls...
I was a Laura Nyro fan without even knowing it. When I was a kid, I loved listening to "Wedding Bell Blues" by The 5th Dimension, and later as a young man, I discovered more of their groovy music like "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Sweet Blindness" as well as Three Dog Night's "Eli's Coming" and Barbra Streisand's "Stoney End". It wasn't until I heard Nyro's...
NEW YORK, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Legacy Recordings, the world's foremost catalog music label, is continuing its on-going digital reissue initiative with a round of classic album titles, from a variety of genres, to be released for the first time in the online digital realm this fall.
The Chase Brock Experience, the modern dance company of dancer and choreographer Chase Brock, will premiere its new piece, American Sadness , set to the music of Gabriel Kahane, Oct. 8-11 at the Abrons Arts Center in NYC.
Back in the 1970s, Jewish chicks were gettin’ soulful. Real soulful. Click the links below and you’ll hear what I’m talking about... 1. “Shakey Ground” – Phoebe Snow 2. “A Love of Your Own” – Melissa Manchester 3. “It Keeps You Runnin’ ” – Carly Simon ( Backing band: The Doobie Brothers. ) 4. “Believe in Humanity”...
Davenport's content to grow in its space When Chicago's cabaret artists and their fans pack glittering Park West next Sunday for their annual gala concert, they'll owe a huge thank-you to a tiny club.
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