Moody Blues CD
Go Now
It's Up To You
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Ride My See Saw
Just A Singer In A Rock And Roll Band
good stuff
big claps of thunder rolling through
it's the front edge of an Alberta clipper
During major cold outbreaks over the USA in the middle of winter, you might hear forecasters talking about an "Alberta clipper."
An Alberta clipper is an area of low pressure that generally forms over Alberta, Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains. They develop east of the Rockies because air flowing eastward over the mountains creates favorable conditions.
I am listening to Nisse the cat complaining that he is soooo bored!
Jay and the Doctor on Triple J
Calexico.
The idea was to get more music like Crystal Frontier, which I love - it's such a vibrant, pulsating, warm, soulful, desert kind of saloon song. So I d/l'd a shitload of Calexico, basically the first half of their Feast of Wire cd, which I'd read was their best one, and then some stuff, for example from their odds and ends record Even My Sure Things Fall Through.
But it turns out their songs are mostly much, much sparser, more lonesome and quiet than that; to the point of heartbreaking in their desolated melancholy. CF is melancholy too, but in a open fire kinda way, not in an all alone underneath the intimidating dark night sky kinda sense.
So, I'm half-regretting it, cause some of this stuff is really getting to me - take Woven Birds, for example - when I was just getting ready to feel at ease in my skin, mostly chilling down with some dubby reggea. But beautiful it is, though, on the other hand - gotta admit it. Beautiful music. Even an instrumentel snippet like Pepito oozes - the heart of the wind, or something. And Sunken Waltz, Sunken Waltz is an absolute gem.
Anyone got a recommendation on more Calexico songs like Crystal Frontier and Sunken Waltz?
In
Blacktop, after a bit of haunting instrumental, the voice of Lawrence Clark Powell phases in - a historian of the Southwest, I gather, an audibly old man, croaking voice. Havent been able to find the text back on the net - but I think it deserves posting here, perhaps as a tribute to people like Dys - this is what I got so far:
Quote:... in our time the Southwest is suffering rapid change
[??] high and the four [far?] corners grow dingy
The Grand Canyon is overrun by motorized rafters and transistor [rides?]
Our lust for energy dams the rivers
Missile sites, bomber ranges, nuclear testing and [?] desert warfare
All disturbed [?]'s classic's Southwest
When burning dust to nourish the urbanites, their reaction is to -
blacktop the desert ...
(Can anyone fill me in here?)
Also - unrelated thought - I know the one guy in Calexico is the same from Giant Sand (the track or two I heard from GS, I liked) - but are they somehow connected to Thin White Rope as well? I got an album here of TWR that I much like, and somehow the sound kinda really reminds me of it ...
lemme make that into a thread of its own, why not:
Calexico
I'm listening to their tracks mixed up with Joe Strummer tracks by the way, works pretty well.
I can't live without the UK band Lighthouse Family - DESPITE the fact that they have broken up and all, but I still listen to their songs - High is my favourite as it seems to be able to put my emotions in exact and perfect words. I have listened to "ocean drive" "lifted" and heard abit of postcards from heaven - and now I am obsessed with listening to the whole song!!!
BTW: does anyone have any news in regards to the two band members? They seem to have fallen from the face of the earth.
I am a huge fan of Dido (also UK born) - her "white flag" really describes what I am going through right now. Love her voice - so soft and shy, almost. One of the guys who partnered up with her in her "White Flag" clip said it seemed to have the echo of love in it (her voice) and I agree completely.
Putumayo's Music From The Tea Lands. World chill. mmm.
The now late, great Chris Ledoux.
For those of us who grew up with rodeo and ranching, his loss to the "cowboy" music genre is no less than the loss of Johnny Cash, Elvis or Marvin Gaye were to their genres.
Although not mainstream, his music was real and he put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen.
He was a world champion bronc rider and one of the last of a dying breed however his music will endure for those of us who have either lived the life of a cowboy, or have dreamed about doing so.
amen, I got to open for him once and he was as nice as your next door neighbor...not like some other Nashville pouffters.
raspberrian wrote:jazz...i love jazz.
welcome, give us your 3 faves
Panzade, Ledoux was a boyhood hero of mine, not for his music, but for being a world champion bronc rider. I've done my own share of rodeoing, and the songs he wrote simply put lyrics to the life and lifestyle of the cowboy. A lifestyle that's neither as glamourous or as hokey as television would like us to believe lol.
I met him at a rodeo in Gillette, Wy in 1984 or 85. As you stated, he was an exceedingly nice and genuine person.
I've found the jukebox on my new PC and I'm playing every track of mine I've ever burned to a compilation CD - right now it's playing Mongo Santamaria's 'Watermelon man'. What a groove.....
Dream Theater-In The Name Of God
That song reminds me of being a child.
The Steppers - Alice, who the f*** is Alice?
Reallly!
