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Category: guitar
2010
Sunday, 12/26/10
Music has always been like medicine to me.
—Aaron Neville
Aaron Neville (with Allen Toussaint, piano), “I Know I’ve Been Changed” (excerpt), “I Done Made Up My Mind” (excerpt), 2010
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Saturday, 12/25/10
Merry Christmas!
Bessie Smith (with Joe Smith, cornet; Charlie Green, trombone; Fletcher Henderson, piano), “At the Christmas Ball” (1925)
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Lowell Fulson, “Lonesome Christmas (I & II)” (1950)
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Sonny Boy Williamson, “Sonny Boy’s Christmas Blues” (1951)
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lagniappe
radio: all Bach, all the time
WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University) is currently in the midst of their annual Bach Festival, which runs through the end of the year.
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Barn’s burnt down—
now
I can see the moon.—Mitzuta Masahide (trans. Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto), 1657-1723
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going forward
I won’t be here every day; but I’ll be here often.
2010
Saturday, 12/18/10
Captain Beefheart (AKA Don Van Vliet), January 5, 1941–December 17, 2010
replay: a clip too good for just one day
For some people, going their own way seems to be the only way they could possibly go.
Captain Beefheart (AKA Don Van Vliet)
The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart (BBC Documentary, 1997)
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Part 5
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Part 6
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lagniappe
Don’t you think that somebody like Stravinsky . . . it would annoy him if somebody bent a note the wrong way?
—Captain Beefheart
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About the seventh or eighth time [I listened to Trout Mask Replica], I thought it was the greatest album ever made—and I still do.
—Matt Groening
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art beat
Paintings by Don Van Vliet
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(Originally posted 3/6/10.)
Having posted this, I’m going to return to the break I mentioned the other day—back soon.
2010
Monday, 12/13/10
Here, following Big Mama Thornton’s, are two more takes.
Elvis Presley, “Hound Dog,” live (TV broadcast, Milton Berle Show), 1956
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The Rock and Roll Trio (with Johnny Burnette), “Hound Dog,” live (TV broadcast, Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour), 1956
Vodpod videos no longer available.In 1952, the Burnette brothers and Burlison formed a group called The Rhythm Rangers at the time. Johnny Burnette sang the vocals and played acoustic guitar, Dorsey played bass and Paul Burlison played lead guitar. For economic reasons, in 1956, the three young men moved to New York, where they managed to get an audition with the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour. They won the competition three times in a row, which gained them a place in the finals, a recording contract with Coral Records and they officially became The Rock and Roll Trio.
2010
Friday, 12/10/10
two voices
Some voices are so distinctive and indelible that, once heard, they occupy rooms all their own in your mind.
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, “Hound Dog,” live (TV broadcast; Buddy Guy, guitar; Fred Below, drums), Europe, 1965 (originally recorded 1952)
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Happy (180th) Birthday, Emily!
I’d subscribe to her Twitter feed in a heartbeat.
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
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Escape is such a thankful Word
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Our lives are Swiss –
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
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My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –
—Emily Dickinson (first lines)
2010
Wednesday, 12/8/10
Some sounds never grow old.
Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials, “Find My Baby,” live
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lagniappe
In response to yesterday’s post, a reader writes:
No, you were right the first time, the movement to bebop was immense progress. . . . To deny progress in art or politics is bad politics, tho there are clearly eddies and flows as we know from being currently enmeshed in a backward eddy.
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They don’t live long
but you’d never know it—
the cicada’s cry.***
Awake at night—
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold.***
Even in Kyoto—
hearing the cuckoo’s cry—
I long for Kyoto.—Matsuo Basho (trans. Robert Hass), 1644-1694
2010
Tuesday, 12/7/10
The history of jazz, I once thought (like a lot of folks), is a story of progress. The shift from swing to bebop, for example, wasn’t simply a change; it was an advance. What bunk.
Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, “Swinging in Harlem,” 1938
2010
Monday, 12/6/10
Here’s more from the city that does death like no other.
Funeral for Juanita Brooks, New Orleans, 2009
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lagniappe
Here’s a taste of the Syl Johnson show I recently saw.
Syl Johnson, “Same Kind of Thing,” live, Chicago, 11/27/10
Vodpod videos no longer available.2010
Friday, 12/3/10
Is any drummer more exciting?
Keith Moon, August 23, 1946-September 7, 1978
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The Who, “Young Man Blues,” live, Isle of Wight, 1970
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The man is a drummer.
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[N]othing had prepared me for the ferocious energy of The Who. . . . Pete Townshend’s hard, tense suspended chords seemed to scour the air around them; Roger Daltrey’s singing was a young man’s fighting swagger, an incitement to some kind of crime; John Entwistle’s incessantly mobile bass playing was like someone running away from the scene of the crime; and Keith Moon’s drumming, in its inspired vandalism, was the crime itself.
—James Wood, “The Fun Stuff,” The New Yorker, 11/29/10
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this just in
Scientists said Wednesday that the number of stars in the universe had been seriously undercounted, and they estimated that there could be three times as many stars out there as had been thought.
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