B.B. King and Joan Baez at Sing Sing
29/07/2015
It has commercials, but here you get to see how it was to go up the Hudson, and visit prisoners in 1974. Axé.
Category: Songs
Rezar y rezar
26/07/2015
Una piedra en el camino / me enseñó que mi destino / era rodar y rodar / rodar y rodar / rodar y rodar… That is from the most hilariously machista and probably gun-slinging song that could exist, but look what a beautiful voice Vicente Fernández had when he was young. The song comes to me … More Rezar y rezar
Bruce Cockburn
14/07/2015
This is The trouble with normal, a 1981 song lyric I did not know. I notice that Cockburn had the same insight I did, then. Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage Suddenly it’s repression, moratorium on rights What did they think the politics of panic … More Bruce Cockburn
Le chant des oiseaux
09/07/2015
Definitely listen to this. When I get my turntable, I will buy it on vinyl. Axé.
Haggadot
05/07/2015
We have not sung at all recently. Here is a beautiful video of fourteenth century songs from the exhibit on Haggodot, that ends in Barcelona today. See how Eastern it sounds, and how ancient. Axé.
Du levande
15/03/2015
Roy Andersson. Axé.
S o c o r r o, or, I shall be free
22/02/2015
If you know who I am and you are willing, send me mail at my regular address and I will send you an address. One of my high school friends is homeless in Stockton, CA and I am soliciting direct donations to her, yes. When we were in high school one of my friends’ fathers … More S o c o r r o, or, I shall be free
¡Ay, quán fermosa viene Doña Endrina por la plaça!
18/02/2015
It is Ash Wednesday, time to consider the battle between Lord Carnaval and Lady Lent, and I have found this really nice rendering one of the songs from the Libro de buen amor (1343). (An ad comes first, unfortunately — turn the sound down.) Axé.
Peruvian Psychedelic Rock
15/02/2015
“Telegraph Avenue was named after the street one of the band members stayed at in San Francisco during the summer of ’69.” He must mean Berkeley. Read the article and listen to the songs. Axé.
Mandolin Orange
14/02/2015
Axé.
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