Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Nick Lowe, Jim Keltner. The way too short lived Little Village.
Lyrics to “Solar Sex Panel” below, with a not-to-be-missed bonus tune.
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Category: Music Break
Music Break: Sarah Jarosz – Ring Them Bells
OK, this is the best live performance I’ve found on you tube, but do yourself a favor and immediately DL this from Itunes. Failing that, listen to the studio version here.
The reason you love the tune is because it’s a Bob Dylan song – one I’d not heard. Now read who the backups on the album are: Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Shawn Colvin, Punch Brothers, Vince Gill “and more”. Produced by Gary Paczosa, who also produced Alison Kraus and John Prine. Now you know why it sounds so damn good.
Music Break: I Dare You Not to Smile
Double dog dare you.
Music Break: Uravel, Unwind by The Spring Standards
These guys represent the best of the mini-folk boom that’s been ongoing for the last 5 or so years.
Music Break: Charlie Darwin by the Low Anthem
Haunting music. Haunting images. Take a break. God knows I need one.
The video for The Low Anthem’s “Charlie Darwin,” off their 2009 Nonesuch debut, “Oh My God, Charlie Darwin,” matches the band’s haunting music to poignant visuals, created by Glenn Z Taunton and Simon Taffe for End of the Road Films using stop-motion animation.
Lyrics below:
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Rachelle Van Zanten – My Country
From Rachelle Van Zanten – My Country
Inspired by images of Tahltan women blockading Shell in defense of the Sacred Headwaters in northern British Columbia, Rachelle wrote ‘My Country’.
She was invited to perform it for the Tahltan people at the Iskut Music Festival a year later, where we filmed this video.
One of the Klabona Keepers brought us up to the Headwaters, the birthplace of the Skeena, Nass and Stikine rivers and a traditional Tahltan territory. This area is critically endangered by a number of industrial mega-projects which threaten all 3 watersheds, affecting an area larger than Ireland.
One Love | Playing For Change | Song Around the World
We heard a lot about Ronald Reagan’s birthday over the last week. Future generations may very well point to his election as not only a national tragedy for America, but a key lost opportunity for humanity to begin transforming the fossil fuel economy, that Jimmy Carter had begun to chip away at, before serious global consequences became all but imminent.
I stumbled on a celebration of another birthday on youtube, a celebration that apparently 7 million other people found before I did – that of Bob Marley’s birthday, with a global, synchronous, multicultural version of “One Love”.
I’d be amazed if someone, somewhere in Tahrir Square in Cairo isn’t playing, singing, or humming this tonight.
That Icelandic Folk Song
Ok, go figure.
The number one thing people were interested in after watching this week’s video, judging by comments, was, “What was that SONG?”
Unfortunately, I didn’t have the link at first, because I lost track of it. Now I’ve found it, and although the name is of course, unpronounceable, it’s in the video description.
Enjoy.
Transatlantic Sessions: Aly Bain, Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas
You remember that story, that fairy tale, where there was a magic fiddle, and an even more magical man that could play it? The mysterious wizard who could charm the children and animals of the forest?
Aly Bain is that guy.
Oh yeah, the other guys are pretty good, too.
It’s Saturday. Meet a Songwriter you may not know.
Conservative, Christian, Right Wing, Republican…
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Todd Snider is a great songwriter, so good, that I had to tag on another one. A cautionary note. If you are sensitive to a little bit of foul language, or if the possibility of blowing hot coffee out your nose onto your keyboard puts you off, don’t click here.