Tag Archives: Last.fm
Another List Posing as a Post: My Most @Lastfm Spins of 2011
[v=QXSyJwDQ2a8] Last.fm is a nifty little online music community, based in London with users all over the world. It started simply enough—users install a utility in their PC music player (Windows Media, iTunes, etc) to “scrobble” their music real-time, sending … Continue reading
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?
[v=G5j9GZMcEOA] I’m really feeling this tune today. This week. This year. It’s the same old tune, fiddle and guitar Where do we take it from here Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars We’ve been the same way for years We … Continue reading
JC's Albums Played in 2009
Do you remember albums? The awkard way you had to flip thru the bin at the record store. Cover art that with real estate worth the effort. The unique feeling you got breaking the shrink-wrap on a large platter of … Continue reading
A Private Concert with Townes Van Zandt
[v=eQQUgxGHxUM] Some days I wonder about the choices I make, the missed opportunities and friends not met. See, I love live music. The nuance, the feeling, the tenor filtered out in the studio. There’s nothing like watching an artist bend … Continue reading
Bill and Kate Isles at Fort Belmont Rendezvous
Four stars for album Matching Baggage and show. Continue reading
T for Texas
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIBmGZxAhg] Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) was one of the first “stars” of country music. Often known as the Singing Brakeman, Rodgers set the standard for future generations: Jimmie Rodgers’s first Blue Yodel, which became known as “Blue Yodel No. 1 (T … Continue reading
The Day The Music Died
Today is the 50th anniversary of The Day The Music Died. On 3 February 1959, in a field outside Clear Lake, Iowa, a small plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, crashed and killed everyone … Continue reading
At the Root of the Music
Uncle Tupelo is the fulcrum of my ROOTS music universe. All things good, bad and ugly; happy, melancholy and sad, flow thru the music and the people and the places of the boys from Southern Illinois. The melancholy is mine–youth … Continue reading
All Alone In This Together
there are a very few times in this life when a melody hits me Continue reading
Far & Away 2008
Freeform American Roots DJ picks for 2008 Continue reading
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