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it would be interesting to know just how many 'side projects' Jerry Garcia was actually involved in during his life because his name seems to crop up a lot.
like you Ruby, definitely not a 'deadhead'.
interesting take on the Stones' classic.
MH, ever heard of this group??
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I have
back in my record store days
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This has been an earworm all week for some unknown reason. Certainly not the weather - well, maybe one or two days! Cerulean skies and and turquoise water. I love the song, but it's also kinda weird being in two distinct parts that are completely different from one another. Nonetheless, a great example of that indefinable luminosity that accompanies certain pieces of music - a little bit of magic.
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Sometimes the simplest things are the best. This is from an album by Sandra Boynton that is geared for children but I don't care - there are some truly profound so-called children's songs. And it's never too late, so say the ubiquitous 'they'!
Ryan Adams has/had such a great voice - no idea what he's up to lately, I just know he lost his way a bit, but then maybe we all do in varying degrees - it's the human condition. There are three tracks that I really like on the Frog Trouble release and today, this is the one that's calling so here it is ...
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speaking of Ryan Adams Ruby
did you ever hear his cover of Taylor Swift's "1989" album in its entirety???
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^No - nor have I listened to the original! Guessing I should give it a try? I liked Heartbreaker and Gold.
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heres his version of Taylor's "shake it off" from his version of the album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwmXO0J-PAA
i guess if you like what he does with it you might like his version of the album
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^I listened to that song CH. Mmmmm - not sure. I will hear out the album at some point.
This week's song arrived courtesy of Firefall's Friends & Family - their cover of Fleetwood Mac's "World Turning" which is just perfect for right now! And whatismore, I think it's a stonking version of the song too. Not sure who takes lead vocal here, but it works!
The Fleetwood Mac original ...
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Unlikely as it may seem, Nad Sylvan’s newly released track “Monumentata” is my pick for this week. The song speaks of loss and memories – the death of his father, and the fact that no matter what age you are, when both parents have gone, it leaves you a little adrift in the world, even when, as in this case, the relationship was far from perfect. He’s looking back here and paying what homage he realistically can. And he is feeling a sense of his own mortality.
Sylvan’s birth name is Hugh Erik Stewart – his father was Hugh Wright Stewart, and he was a big tennis star in his heyday, hence the racket imagery throughout the video. What interests me especially is that this is an artist wearing their heart on their sleeve – showing a vulnerability. The beings that we are respond well to this kind of disclosure – this show of humanity – we feel we can relate, and I don’t find any pretense which is why it strikes such a chord. He tells us, reading between the lines, that having a sports star father while he was a more artistically inclined child, might have been a bit of a challenge for the parent, or that the child felt it that way - it's complicated, as are many family relationships and since the father lived to 96, he would have been very much of a certain era - that is the inference. The song is a sort of testament or monument - a way for him to process this event. Stewart Snr was half Hungarian which is where ‘tata’ comes in – it’s a diminutive of the word for father. Monumentata is an invention and is the title of his new album which will be out soonish – he says it’s personal this time - real, and that he has abandoned the somewhat gothic persona he had adopted for previous releases. He's getting on a bit and his voice is a little 'choked', for want of a better description but there's still something endearing happening, IMHO, and I will give it a whirl when it launches.
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Today’s pick is a no-brainer, except, unlike Ms Peebles, I really don’t mind the rain at all! Last month this time, we had balmy sunny skies and everyone was swanning about in short sleeves and cooling down in front of fans (mechanical - not ra ra, LOL), whereas right now, there is a deluge of biblical proportions. The vagaries of the southern hemisphere, CT in particular, which has also been known to produce all four seasons in one day!
Anyway – it’s all about the weather and Lowell George’s version is quite THE most funky, feelgood version, IMHO … impeccable pace and timing … the louder the better …
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