Saturday, March 19, 2011

Heritage: Eliza Carthy

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Eliza Carthy: Fisher Boy [ purchase ] Billy Bragg and Eliza Carthy: My Father's Mansions [ purchase ] Old friend and once-upon-a-time ...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Heritage: Joshua Redman

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Joshua Redman : I Had A King [ purchase ] Here's another example of the fruit not falling far at all from the tree. Joshua Redma...

Heritage: Aoife Clancy

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Aoife Clancy : Are You Sleepin‘ Maggie? [ purchase ] Happy St Patrick’s Day! For the occasion, I wanted to present some Irish music. Sh...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Heritage: Anita Carter

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Anita, Maybelle, June and Helen Carter Anita Carter : Anita Carter – (Love’s) Ring Of Fire [ purchase ] Last week I featured an original of ...

Heritage: Martha and Rufus Wainwright

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Martha Wainwright: Laurel & Hardy [ Purchase ] Rufus Wainwright: April Fools [ Purchase ] Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle we...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Heritage: Wynton Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis : In the Court of King Oliver [ purchase ] I have the perfect album for this week’s theme. Standard Time Vol. 3 The Res...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Dance Moves -> Heritage: Bebel Gilberto's One Note Samba

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Bebel Gilberto w/ Venicius Cantuaria : One Note Samba/The Girl From Ipanema [ purchase ] Daughter of Brazilian singer-songwriters and compos...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Dance Moves: Waltz

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Kyosuke Himuro : Waltz [ purchase ] After spending the evening watching the horrible news from Japan, I wanted to share something sooth...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Dance Moves: The Stroll, The Twist, The Limbo Rock, and The Cool Jerk

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The Diamonds : The Stroll (1958) [ purchase ] Chubby Checker : The Twist (1960) [ purchase ] Chubby Checker : The Limbo Rock (1962...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Dance Moves: Evangeline Waltz

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Beausoleil : Evangeline Waltz [ purchase ] Every dance event I ever attended, after a high energy evening, always wound down with a slo...

Dance Moves: The Frug

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Rilo Kiley : The Frug [ purchase ] Some songs don't lend themselves to over-detailed analysis. This 1999 song by indie pop group ...

Dance Moves: Mardi Gras Mambo

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The Hawketts: Mardi Gras Mambo [ purchase ] Darius recently wrote about the Meters , a precursor to the Neville Brothers formed in the late...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Dance Moves: Tango Atlantico

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Joe Jackson : Tango Atlantico [ purchase ] “You may think that this song comes too late.” So sings Joe Jackson on his 1986 album Big Wo...

Dance Moves: Bossa Nova Baby

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Tippie and the Clovers : Bossa Nova Baby [ purchase ] Bossa Nova Baby has been unjustly regarded by some as a bit of a displeasing novelty n...

Dance Moves: Little Black Samba

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Grover Washington, Jr. : Little Black Samba [ purchase ] I have a handful of songs on my hard drive that I'm just waiting for the ...

Doublespeak -> Dance Moves: Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha

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Sam Cooke: Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha [ purchase ] James Taylor: Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha [ purchase ] Things heat up a bit as w...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Doublespeak: Nothing From Nothing

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Billy Preston: Nothing From Nothing [ purchase ] Man, I love me some Billy Preston, so it was an utter shock to discover that not a single o...

Doublespeak: Funkadelic Edition

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One of the many things I love about P-Funk mastermind George Clinton is his way with a song title. Though he's no Sufjan Stevens , he c...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Doublespeak: When It’s Gone, It’s Gone

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Bruce Cockburn : When It‘s Gone, It‘s Gone [ purchase ] When I have posted songs by Bruce Cockburn before, I have tended to concentrate...

Doublespeak: Talk Talk

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Talk Talk : Talk Talk [ purchase ] Talk Talk : Time It's Time [ purchase ] There's so much doublespeak in this post that I...