Cover Lay Down (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Vol. 1: Popcovers Vol. 2: Folk Covers Vol. 3: Indie Covers 26 year old Frank Fairfield plays old mountain bluegrass and country blues standards solo on banjo, guitar and fiddle; he’s been compared to Mississippi John Hurt, and played sessions with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Robin Peckinold of the Fleet Foxes, who has hosted Frank as [...]
How Marvellous... (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
I first heard Mack the Knife sung by Bobby Darin, when I was a kid in the early '70's - it fascinated me right off the bat, even spending some of my not so heard-earned on one of his albums... which wasn't a patch on the one song I bought it for. Anyways, I'm listening to January's "Music Alliance Pact" collection, & found that I Guess I'm Floating had chosen this excellent & very...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Filed under: News , Grammy Awards Leonard Cohen and Michael Jackson were awarded special Grammys honoring lifetime achievement in a separate ceremony at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles Saturday. The 75-year-old Canadian songwriter and the late pop star were named alongside country great Loretta Lynn , the late crooner Bobby Darin , jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, blues guitarist David "Honeyboy"...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
Recommended Part of Lions Gate's "Music Makers" series, i.e., new and previously released DVDs packaged with music CDs, Beyond the Sea (2004) is the extremely well-made film biography of legendary vocalist/musician and sometime actor Bobby Darin, a longtime pet project of the film's director, co-writer and star, Kevin Spacey. Though not a complete success, it's very impressive on many levels...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Charles Aznavour? Wasn’t that the somewhat square old entertainer in the grey suit you saw on dozens of awful tv shows all those years ago? Maybe. Aznavour also was Charlie, the forlorn dude in Truffaut’s Tirez sur le pianiste who smoked all those cigarettes like nobody had done it before, shared the bed with Michèle Mercier and Nicole Berger, and murmered some of the coolest lines...
Too Old To Work, Too Young to Retire (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
I'm a bit busy dealing with a family member's medical problems, time is tight, and blogging will be slow. For those interested, I'm working on a post about EMS 2.0, specifically a response to a couple of Chris Kaiser's posts at Life Under The Lights . I hope to have that up by the weekend, event's permitting. In the mean time a bit of music to entertain you until I can get back to blogging. One of...
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
Reviewed by Clark Douglas Quote: "A fun yet flawed look at the life and music of Bobby Darin."
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Amid all of the deserved, but lingering, attention that will be heaped upon the Michael Jackson legacy at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards on January 31, there will be some attention paid to JAZZ. Trumpeter Clark Terry, 89, will receive the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award. Other lifetime honorees this year are Leonard Cohen, Bobby Darin, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Michael Jackson,...
SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
Vivian Girls I wanted to be blown away. I wasn’t, but it was enjoyable nevertheless. Having regularly stood amongst the desolation of an empty Freebutt waiting for something to happen, we mistimed our arrival to find a packed house and the Girls already into their second number. Cue a gig of two halves. Standing behind that enormous fucking pillar you had a choice - watch tattooed bassist Kickball...
Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
With his biggest single as its centerpiece, the album won four Grammy Awards pairing the Chairman with arranger Nelson Riddle and producers Jimmy Bowen and Sonny Burke. LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- "Strangers in the Night" was Frank Sinatra's best-selling single and -- between the single and its namesake album -- the recipient of four Grammy Awards including Record of the Year in 1966. But it almost...
gabriellagwasb | 01/11/2010
Download Coffin Rock Full Length movie in DVD, Hi-Def, DivX, iPod, psp quality! >>> This tense psychological thriller tells the story of a woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying. In a desperate and drunken mistake, she sleeps with a young stranger. Determined to prove his paternity, his intentions soon become terrifyingly psychotic and the young woman finds
eucleal1699 | 01/08/2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Singer Michael Jackson next month will receive a posthumous Grammy for lifetime achievement, along with six other artists, organizers of the music industry's top awards said. The others honored with the annual award are Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, blues musician David "Honeyboy" Edwards, country star Loretta Lynn, pianist Andre Previn, fluegelhorn player Clark
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 01/08/2010
You don’t earn a nickname like “Mr. Las Vegas” without leading a pretty interesting life. Let’s take a look at five things you might not know about the child star who became one of America’s most beloved crooners. 1. He Got an Early Start According to Newton’s website, he decided to become a musician [...]
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gabriellagwasb | 01/11/2010
Download Coffin Rock Full Length movie in DVD, Hi-Def, DivX, iPod, psp quality! >>> This tense psychological thriller tells the story of a woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying. In a desperate and drunken mistake, she sleeps with a young stranger. Determined to prove his paternity, his intentions soon become terrifyingly psychotic and the young woman finds herself...
eucleal1699 | 01/08/2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Singer Michael Jackson next month will receive a posthumous Grammy for lifetime achievement, along with six other artists, organizers of the music industry's top awards said. The others honored with the annual award are Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, blues musician David "Honeyboy" Edwards, country star Loretta Lynn, pianist Andre Previn, fluegelhorn player Clark Terry and the...
cerdwinw732a | 12/26/2009
Download Population 436 Full Lenght movie in DVD, Hi-Def, DivX, iPod, PDA quality! >>> In this world you have to pay for everything. Sometimes you have to pay for some things with your life. U.S. census worker Steve Kady (Jeremy Sisto) learnt this to his cost. Sent to the small town of Rockwell Falls, he started taking the census only to find a population anomaly. Steve noticed that the town's population...
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