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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Parody and Satire: Take a Look Around Mrs. Brown

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Jeremy Spencer: Take a Look Around Mrs. Brown [out of print] I've mentioned this song before , but thanks to this weeks' theme, you...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Parody and Satire: Yuppies in the Sky

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Tom Paxton : Yuppies in the Sky [ purchase ] In the 1960s, there were hippies. The 1980s had yuppies. It stands for Young Upwardly-mobi...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Parody and Satire: A Simple Desultory Philippic

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Simon & Garfunkel: A Simple Desultory Philippic Paul Simon: A Simple Desultory Philippic (Original Acoustic Version) Purchase Purchase...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Parody and Satire: Filk Songs

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The Brobdingnagian Bards: If I Had 1,000,000 Ducats [ purchase ] John Anealio: Angels & Vampires [ purchase ] Filk Music is an eclecti...

Parody and Satire: My Old Flame

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Spike Jones and His City Slickers : My Old Flame [ purchase ] I hope everyone knows who Spike Jones was. I grew up listening to his mus...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

Discoveries: Not Pretty Enough

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Kasey Chambers:  Not Pretty Enough [ purchase ] I've told this story a hundred times over.  I've told it on my own site more th...

Discoveries: You're Aging Well

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Joan Baez with Dar Williams: You're Aging Well [ purchase ] Dar Williams: You're Aging Well [ purchase ] I am the coordinator/bo...

Discoveries: A Sinful Life

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Timbuk 3: A Sinful Life [ purchase ] I was in middle school, a loser and a loner; my best friend that year was a kid who lived down the str...
Friday, October 8, 2010

Discoveries: Cold Wind to Valhalla

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Jethro Tull : Cold Wind to Valhalla [ purchase ] If you have read a number of my posts, you know that I grew up listening to FM radio i...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Discoveries: Rid of Me

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PJ Harvey: Rid Of Me [ Purchase ] I have a confession... I don't have a time line of discovery and growth like many of you. Since I was...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Discoveries: Empty Pages

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Traffic: Empty Pages Purchase: I hope FiL doesn't mind me copying his flow chart - a good idea is a good idea, so here's mine: Bee ...

Discoveries: Hungry, So Angry

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Medium Medium : Hungry, So Angry [ purchase ] I haven’t listened to the radio in quite some time. Do they still have those contests whe...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Discoveries: Starship Trooper

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Yes: Starship Trooper [ purchase ] Let me give you an abbreviated history of my teenage musical obsessions: The Beatles -> Heavy Metal -...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Discoveries: Lovers in a Dangerous Time

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Bruce Cockburn : Lovers in a Dangerous Time [ purchase ] I always wanted to be a writer. My mother was a reporter for a local newspaper...

Pipes and Woodwinds -> Discoveries: So Flute

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St. Germain: So Flute [ purchase ] For our new theme this week, we'll be sharing discovery stories - those tales of sudden connection, ...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Pipes and Woodwinds: Behind Blue Eyes

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The Chieftains with Roger Daltrey : Behind Blue Eyes [ purchase ] To finish out my posts for this week’s theme, I wanted a song that ha...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Pipes and Woodwinds: Roland Kirk Edition

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Roland Kirk: Mingus-Griff Song Roland Kirk: Mood Indigo [ purchase ] Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a one-man woodwind section. He could play th...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Pipes and Woodwinds: Clarinet Connections

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Brave Old World : Brave Old Sirbas [ purchase ] One of the pleasures of this week‘s theme for me is the chance to present some klezmer ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Pipes and Woodwinds: Winter in America

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Gil Scott-Heron : Winter in America [ purchase ] This bleak vision of dystopian America circa 1974 is courtesy of Gil Scott-Heron, a soc...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Pipes and Woodwinds: Around This Corner

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Sarah Harmer: Around This Corner [ purchase ] Sarah Harmer: Just A Closer Walk With Thee [ purchase ] The classical reeded woodwinds of th...
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