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Post by erik on Feb 20, 2016 19:29:37 GMT -8
Wide open spaces are invoked and evoked on this new release of four great works by the "dean of American composers", Aaron Copland: "Rodeo" and "Billy The Kid" in their complete forms; "El Salon Mexico"; and "An Outdoor Overture". These works receive first-rate renderings by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra under current music director (and Dallas Symphony Conductor Laureate) Andrew Litton:
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Post by thinwhitechick on Jul 7, 2016 17:46:55 GMT -8
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Post by drizzletown on Jul 9, 2016 16:44:13 GMT -8
Hey TWC! I'm listening to it also. More new material would have been nice. I like the Ne-Yo cover "TWO" (I don't even think he's released it yet, his version is probably bound to be a hit - heard it online). Is interesting to hear some of their sacred stuff redone - Sweet Darlin' & Down On Me. Hope all's well.
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Post by erik on Jul 9, 2016 17:53:43 GMT -8
The music of George Gershwin is featured on this CD, a live recording made at the Meyerson Symphony Center in September 1998 by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under their then Music Director (and now Conductor Laureate) Andrew Litton. He is at the piano for "Dayful Of Song" and "Rhapsody In Blue", and leads the orchestra from the podium in "Lullaby", "An American In Paris", "Promenade", and the "Cuban Overture".
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Post by erik on Jul 15, 2016 6:22:00 GMT -8
Because it is her 70th birthday (she was born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona, on a day when her hometown was being thoroughly drenched by a summer monsoon storm):
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Post by drizzletown on Nov 5, 2016 15:03:54 GMT -8
Florence + the Machine I'm OBSESSED with this album - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. I'm so behind the times (sometimes), it came out in 5/2015. Love Delilah, Queen of Peace, title track, Mother, What Kind of Man. Is an awesome album. Go get it if you don't have it.
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Post by erik on Nov 23, 2016 20:05:34 GMT -8
One of the late, great Leon Russell's classic songs, interpreted by one of the great masters of American popular music--Brother Ray:
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Post by thinwhitechick on Nov 27, 2016 10:48:57 GMT -8
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Post by erik on Nov 27, 2016 18:29:36 GMT -8
Margo Price's Midwest Farmer's Daughter is, without question, one of the best albums of 2016, country or otherwise. She handles old-school honky-tonk, Memphis/Muscle Shoals R&B, and West Coast country-rock quite well on this fine album. Dolly, Emmylou, and Linda on their valedictory lap with The Complete Trio Collection--both of their official collaborative albums, plus a third CD of outtakes and unreleased material. It is bittersweet, of course, since Linda can no longer sing at all because of Parkinson's (in fact, the disease is making it hard for her to do even the basic everyday stuff of life now); but it's a must-have for all the right reasons.
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Post by thinwhitechick on Jan 8, 2017 12:23:01 GMT -8
Favorites from: And Bowie would have turned 70 today. Blackstar was released 1 year ago today.
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Post by thinwhitechick on Jan 14, 2017 17:12:53 GMT -8
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Post by drizzletown on Jan 17, 2017 9:32:01 GMT -8
Am trying to get in to the first two Florence + the Machine albums. Wasn't as immediately HIT by them as the most recent. I seem to gravitate to Lungs more-so than Ceremonials.
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Post by Bingo on Jan 25, 2017 19:11:11 GMT -8
In an increasingly fraught political climate, I'm often thankful for the way music can still bring some cheer.
This clip shows the closing jam of Miranda Lambert's tour rehearsal concert, which she chose to take this year to a bar in Chicago, rather than Nashville. (Proceeds will go to her Women Creators scholarship fund at Belmont). There's a long emotional back story to the genesis of her remarkable new double album, which I won't go into - but much of it is in an Alternative-leaning style which Mainstream radio may fail to find room for. In the clip, after she introduces the band, you can hear Gwen Sebastian, her backing singer, her father, Rick Lambert, her boyfriend, Michael Anderson East, and Blu Sanders, a photographer friend who worked on some of her publicity material. Note especially the solo by her British reso player, Spencer Cullum (which might even make Emily proud).
The song is the Civil Rights anthem, "Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed On Freedom"
Credit & thanks to Tricia Despres for the video
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Post by erik on Jan 26, 2017 16:35:50 GMT -8
The official video for "Heartache Is An Uphill Climb", a track from Tift Merritt's album Stitch Of The World (her first album since her 2013 collaboration Night with classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein), out in record stores tomorrow (January 27th):
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Post by Bingo on Jan 30, 2017 7:43:29 GMT -8
One for the post-Brexit Blues?
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Post by drizzletown on Feb 21, 2017 8:55:22 GMT -8
Style reminds me of Patty Griffin, voice a combo of Crow and Harris (Harris in the beginning, Crow for the chorus). The official video for "Heartache Is An Uphill Climb", a track from Tift Merritt's album Stitch Of The World (her first album since her 2013 collaboration Night with classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein), out in record stores tomorrow (January 27th):
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Post by Bingo on Feb 25, 2017 19:05:49 GMT -8
Eliza Gilkyson, the Texan singer who was a leading figure in the protest music of the Bush era, with songs like "Man of God" and "Highway 9", has made a new video to accompany her song "The Great Correction"
"The Great Correction" was originally written for a series of discussion seminars called Last Sunday in Austin, and was included on her 2008 album "Beautiful World", which was widely interpreted as a plea for the election of President Obama.
The new video consists of a series of pictures illustrating memorable moments in the history of protest and social activism - on the YouTube page containing the video, she provides notes identifying the provenance of each picture and quotation.
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Post by erik on Feb 26, 2017 8:58:09 GMT -8
J.D. Souther and Brandy Clark doing the 1956 Ray Price classic "Crazy Arms" at the Linda Ronstadt Parkinson's Benefit concert here in Los Angeles on December 11, 2016. Linda recorded that long-standing honky-tonk C&W classic on her self-titled 1972 album:
Souther also does his song "Faithless Love", which Linda recorded on her epochal 1974 album Heart Like A Wheel.
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Post by myfavoritegirls on Mar 10, 2017 11:33:48 GMT -8
nothing but crickets...... chirp.....chirp...................
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Post by erik on Apr 29, 2017 8:20:06 GMT -8
Twenty-five years ago today, on April 29, 1992, four white LAPD officers were acquitted in the beating of African-American motorist Rodney King, resulting in the worst urban rioting in L.A. history. On that night, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded a song as a plea for tamping down the horror unleashed by the verdicts, "Peace In L.A.":
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Post by Ross on May 4, 2017 15:06:39 GMT -8
David Brent - Life On The Road
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Post by erik on May 4, 2017 19:41:17 GMT -8
Thomas Newman's music score for the 2016 sci-fi film PASSENGERS: Female California "outlaw" singer Jaime Wyatt's 7-song EP Felony Blues:
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Post by erik on Apr 14, 2018 20:30:58 GMT -8
Five biggies as of late: Margo Price's All American Made: John Williams' soundtrack for director Steven Spielberg's 2017 masterpiece THE POST: Mahler: SYMPHONY NO. 1 (TITAN)--Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam/LEONARD BERNSTEIN Mahler: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (RESURRECTION)--San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Lindi Ortega's new one Liberty, a Southwestern concept album whose influences range from C&W and retro-rock to Ennio Morricone, and even Linda Ronstadt's landmark 1987 Mexican album Canciones De Mi Padre (Lindi's from Canada, but, like the Arizona-born Linda, she also has Mexican lineage):
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Post by erik on May 5, 2018 15:50:49 GMT -8
Being as it is Cinco De Mayo (or "F**k You Donald Trump" Day), here is Lindi with the title track of Liberty:
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Post by Bingo on May 24, 2018 10:54:38 GMT -8
Some fans with an interest in the Dixie Chicks' deeper repertoire may recall that back in 2001 they collaborated for one track ("Panhandle Jane"), on Jesse Dayton's album "Hey Nashvegas"
Jesse has remained an active presence on the Austin music scene, and he has a new album coming out next month. It includes a track on the Charlottesville clash between protesters and White Supremacists, which tragically resulted in the death of Heather Heyer, killed when a car was allegedly deliberately driven at the line of protesters. The incident bit deeply into the divisions in current American politics, with the President controversially refusing to condemn the "Alt Right" and implying that the Left were equally to blame.
Jesse has called for more protest, citing the songs of a previous generation that he grew up on. In an interview with Rolling Stone, he says: "I'm shocked we're not hearing more of these songs. We need them now more than ever."Hearing Neil Young's 'Ohio' or Joe Strummer from the Clash sing 'Know Your Rights' as a kid played a big part in my political consciousness. I love that it drives the Right crazy that I sound more hillbilly than they do, but I'm still progressive politically and more informed [than they are]."
The advance You Tube video is still unlisted, but I hope this will play
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