Nothing hits the spot, sometimes, like a homicidal love song. The Handsome Family, “My Beautiful Bride” Live, Australia (Sydney), 2010 More? Here. ********** lagniappe art beat: Monday at the Art Institute of Chicago Utagawe Hiroshige, Autumn Moon over Tama River (from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo), 1837-38
Archive for the ‘folk’ category
Wednesday, 5/2/12
05/02/2012Wednesday, 1/4/12
01/03/2012Forget the weird press—she can sing. Sinead O’Connor, “Paddy’s Lament” (trad.) TV broadcast (Ireland), 12/19/11 ***** How many other pop stars have made so many stunning contributions as a guest artist? With Shane MacGowan, “Haunted” *** With the Chieftains, “The Foggy Dew” *** With Willie Nelson, “Don’t Give Up” (Last three clips originally posted 3/3/10.)
Monday, 12/12/11
12/11/2011Maybe everything in your life would be better—or at least seem better— if only you had more banjo. Sam Amidon, “As I Roved Out” (trad.), live, Austin (SXSW), 2011
Friday, 4/29/11
04/29/2011When you’re young you can’t imagine that the things that make your life sing won’t always be there. Then you get older. And they aren’t. Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (Brewer Phillips, guitar; Ted Harvey, drums), “Sadie,” live, Ann Arbor Blues Festival, 1973 More? Here. ********** langiappe mail This arrived yesterday, in response to an [...]
Thursday, 4/28/11
04/28/2011Yesterday we heard music of “nostalgia” and “homesickness,” of “loneliness” and “separation,” from Mali. Today it comes from West Virginia. Hazel Dickens, singer, songwriter June 1, 1925-April 22, 2011 Live, with Ginny Hawker, vocals, and Tracy Schwartz, fiddle “West Virginia My Home” (H. Dickens), Kentucky (Morehead State University), 2008 *** “I Love To Sing The [...]
Thursday, 8/19/10
08/19/2010Hands? You don’t need them, either. Hamper McBee, “Jasper Jail,” live, Tennessee, 1977
Thursday, 7/1/10
06/30/2010looking back Today, celebrating our 300th post, we revisit a few favorites. ********** 3/12/10 Both Chicago blues artists. Both guitar players. Both influenced by other kinds of music. Musical personalities? They could hardly be more different. Buddy Guy, “Let Me Love You Baby,” live ***** Fenton Robinson, “Somebody Loan Me A Dime,” live, 1977 *** [...]
Monday, 4/19/10
04/19/2010Bob Dylan/1965, part 1 “If You Gotta Go, Go Now” Live, England (Leicester), May, 1965 ***** Manfred Mann, September, 1965 (#2, UK charts)
Wednesday, 3/3/10
03/03/2010What other pop star has made such stunning contributions as a guest artist? Sinead O’Connor With Willie Nelson, “Don’t Give Up” ***** With the Chieftains, “The Foggy Dew” ***** With Shane MacGowan, “Haunted”
