Music recommendations

[Long Run]

Been out for awhile, but best song I've heard tonight:

[Sue U]

I like those last two, LR, cool picks.

[RayThom]

SueU, Jacob Banks has become a playlist favorite on WXPN / 88.5FM -- UofP, in Philly.

You can see/hear him tomorrow for the "Free At Noon at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia" concert.

Check it out.
http://www.xpn.org/events/free-at-noon/ ... acob-banks

[Gob]

[Sue U]

SueU, Jacob Banks has become a playlist favorite on WXPN / 88.5FM -- UofP, in Philly.

You can see/hear him tomorrow for the "Free At Noon at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia" concert.

Check it out.
http://www.xpn.org/events/free-at-noon/ ... acob-banks

I couldn't make it over there today because work, I am disappoint. Although XPN is still on my pre-set radio buttons, I haven't listened to them except occasionally in years, since they went primarily "adult contemporary" (or whatever they're calling it). They were once my go-to station (along with WKDU); I was huge fan back in the day, when they had groundbreaking shows like YNMT with Lee Paris, the best DJ what ever spun a disc:

https://soundcloud.com/djrobertdrake/le ... -ynmt-wxpn

I think I went to about half of the shows he's announcing in this clip. (I think I even still have my backstage pass for the Cramps show at Emerald City.)

Oh, and Gob, I like that Robert Vincent clip, he sounds like someone who's been around forever (or at least the style has), kinda like Roy Orbison crossed with Neil Young singing songs written by Tom Petty; nice use of pedal steel too.

[Sue U]

So my son took me out Saturday night to see this band at a bar in Philly; they're pretty new on the scene and are really quite good, if you're into that proggy jazz-rock fusion kinda thing.



This video shows a stripped-down version of the band. They had a really good sax player and an additional percussionist at the show.

[Gob]

The fourth track on Gwenno Saunders’ second album raises a question about whether lyrics really matter. Saunders narrates the verses of the brilliant Eus Keus? in a monotone, before the sung bursts into colour at the chorus, a euphoric series of chords with Saunders suddenly urgent over the top. She’s singing in Cornish – after the Welsh language of her debut album, she’s switched to her second mother tongue (English is her third language) – and one wonders quite what she’s singing about: something vital and urgent, surely?

Then one checks the lyric translation. The verses are a roll call of Cornish towns and that thrilling chorus actually runs: “Is there cheese? / Is there or isn’t there? / If there’s cheese, bring cheese / And if there isn’t cheese – bring what’s easy!”

Is the song diminished by being a lyrical throwaway, the way the Smiths’ Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others was? No, because you can imprint your own meaning on it. That’s not to say there isn’t seriousness of purpose behind Le Kov (which translates as “The Place of Memory”). It’s an exploration of Cornish identity, from feelings of post-Brexit-vote isolation, to calls to arms, to the status of minority languages. But casual listeners are unlikely to pick up on those themes (and the lyrics are sufficiently allusive that you need Gwenno’s explanations to get the point). It’s the melodies that will keep people coming back: purposeful and direct, but deliciously blurry, reminiscent of Broadcast in their creation of a psychedelia that looks backwards and forwards simultaneously.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/ ... h-identity

[Long Run]

[Burning Petard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IUjc8XHIHg

We argued where to place the blame, on one man's hate or the nations's shame,
Some sickness of the mind or soul, and how the wounds might be made whole
But no words could say what must be said for all the living and the dead.
So on that day in that place, my president sang Amazing Grace.

So different less than a year ago when there was death in Charlottesville, Virginia,
and POTUS said "'there are good people on both sides."

snailgate

[Long Run]

[Sue U]

Nice one, LR.

[Jarlaxle]

Heard this on my Pandora feed...not sure why, but I loved it.

[Jarlaxle]

Reba makes a fairly nasty song into a sad, almost wistful one...

[Jarlaxle]

Jimmy Buffett is very underrated as a lyricist...

[Jarlaxle]

I challenge any father to not tear up a little at this one. Astoundingly...it was written by a 17 year old Kenny Loggins.

[Jarlaxle]

This is jaw-dropping.

[Jarlaxle]

Excellent cover...and a song that always makes me think of cheerleaders.

[Jarlaxle]

Never heard this version until today...

[RayThom]

I hope he's one of the good Irish priests.

[Sue U]

Stumbled upon this rendition of the second Bach Cello Suite the other day and I can Not. Stop. Listening. Here's the Prelude and OMG it is without question the most beautiful thing in the world today.