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piercethevale
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One of the freshest sounds to come along in a long while...and it features a banjo played in a way that is unlike any I've ever heard before...and I've been playin' one of them things since 1972... or, more correctly, have been trying to play...
"Two Heads" by Coleman Hell ...from Toronto, Canada
http://indieobsessive.blogspot.com/2015/02/2-heads-by-coleman-hell.html
"Two Heads" by Coleman Hell ...from Toronto, Canada
http://indieobsessive.blogspot.com/2015/02/2-heads-by-coleman-hell.html
piercethevale
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From the soundtrack of the movie, "Woman In Gold", an excellent film by the way, starring the beautiful Helen Mirren... a true story, told with such respect and sensitivity... In my humble opinion, it has Oscar written all over it...also featuring the most lovely, Katie Holmes, Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth McGovern, Daniel Bruhl, Tatiana Maslany and Max Irons. Directed by Simon Curtis.
Forget what all the critics are saying, it is a beautifully crafted movie and the performances are truly stellar.
I do wish to be sparred a little tolerance at this juncture to speak on a matter I find to be important, if for no other reason than I feel that I owe a debt of gratitude and reciprocal respect of the highest kind.
It seems that it has now become fashionable to bash anything that has something to do with the Holocaust... I find this behavior to be of an atrociously insensitive display of both ignorance and inherited, or affected, prejudices. Yet, as much as I too have grown a bit weary of the subject, due in part, no doubt, to the fact that most of the Hollywood studios were controlled for many years by members of the Jewish faith and there have been quite a number of films on the subject or in which the subject was brought up, the subject is due only the most earnest respect and never the less this is such a touching film and it made me (if you'll pardon the expression which has become so cliche, but it fits this particular occasion, it really does...) laugh, cry and it truly moved me.
(...and please spare me any of the recently vogue nonsense that the Holocaust is a myth. I worked with two Jewish gentlemen that were in their 70's in the early 1970's. Both were from Poland and one was in the Dachau camp and the other at Treblinka and both had numbers that had been tattooed on their wrists or forearm. One, Oskar, saw his entire family exterminated and He was only kept alive for the reason that He was a painter and the Nazi's had him constantly painting at the camp.They were but two of the crew of painters, all Europeans, that worked under my fathers direction as paint foreman for the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills back in the day. [I worked there for a couple of years total time, between 1972 and 1976, as an apprentice.] It was one of only two hotels, in the United States, rated five stars by Michelin back then. The least expensive room was $160.00 per night in 1972 and it was hardly bigger than a walk in closet but there was a genuine Modigliani hanging on the wall and in many of the rooms one could find genuine paintings by artists of equal stature. All decor was handled by Don Loper or other interior decorators of equal status all marble work was installed only by Italian artisans whom returned once a year for a couple of weeks to handle any repairs or additions. The rest of the crew consisted of a German, a Portuguese, a Romanian, a Frenchman, an Irishman and an Englishman, whom also just happened to be Jewish as well, Sam Rose was his name and became a very endeared friend of my fathers' over the years. I was fortunate to have been able to work as an apprentice with them as for what all that I learned of the trade and about matters of life as well. From those two Jewish gentlemen, that were interred by the Nazis, I learned my greatest lessons in humility, perseverance and hope.)
I certainly digressed from the short simple post I intended to write ....haven't I? Again, thank you all for your tolerance and patience.
ptv
...now about that "Tune"...
"O Mary Don't You Weep" (Traditional American Negro Spiritual) ~ Deron Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3viwF3pz8U&list=LL_GIQVo2-N_jmBSEcHpj6Fg&index=8
The following information is from wikipedia and is therefore not subjected to copyright restrictions:
Mary Don't You Weep" (alternately titled "O Mary Don't You Weep", "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn", or variations thereof) is a Negro spiritual that originates from before the American Civil War – thus it is what scholars call a "slave song," "a label that describes their origins among the enslaved," and it contains "coded messages of hope and resistance. It is one of the most important of Negro spirituals.
The song tells the Biblical story of Mary of Bethany and her distraught pleas to Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead. Other narratives relate to The Exodus and the Passage of the Red Sea, with the chorus proclaiming Pharaoh's army got drown-ded!, and to God's rainbow covenant to Noah after the Great Flood. With liberation thus one of its themes, the song again become popular during the 1950s and 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Additionally, a song that explicitly chronicles the victories of the Civil Rights Movement, "If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus", written by Charles Neblett of The Freedom Singers, was sung to this tune and became one of the most well-known songs of that movement.
In 2015 it was announced that The Swan Silvertones's version of the song will be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for the song's "cultural, artistic and/or historical significance to American society and the nation’s audio legacy"
The first recording of the song was by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1915. The best known recordings were made by the vocal gospel group The Caravans in 1958, with Inez Andrews as the lead singer, and The Swan Silvertones in 1959. "Mary Don't You Weep" became The Swan Silvertones' greatest hit, and lead singer Claude Jeter's interpolation "I'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name" served as Paul Simon's inspiration to write his 1970 song "Bridge over Troubled Water". The spiritual's lyric God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water the fire next time inspired the title for The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's 1963 account of race relations in America.
Many other recordings have been made, by artists ranging from The Soul Stirrers to Burl Ives. Pete Seeger gave it additional folk music visibility by performing it at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, and played it many times throughout his career, adapting the lyrics and stating the song's relevance as an American song, not just a spiritual. In 1960, Stonewall Jackson recorded a country version of the song, where Mary is a young woman left by her lover on the wedding day to fight in the civil war, and he died in the burning of Atlanta; the song became a hit when it peaked at #12 in Country charts and #41 in Pop charts. In the 1960s, Jamaican artist Justin Hinds had a ska hit with "Jump Out Of The Frying Pan", whose lyrics borrowed heavily from the spiritual. Paul Clayton's version "Pharaoh's Army" appears in "Home-Made Songs & Ballads", which was released in 1961. James Brown rewrote the lyrics of the original spiritual for his 1964 soul hit "Oh Baby Don't You Weep". Aretha Franklin recorded a live version of the song for her 1972 album Amazing Grace. An a cappella version by Take 6, simply called "Mary", received wide airplay after appearing on the group's eponymous debut album in 1988. The song is sung briefly at the beginning of the music video for Bone Thugs N Harmony's 1996 "Tha Crossroads". In a pounding big group folk arrangement, it was one of the highlights of the 2006 Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour. The song also appeared on Mike Farris' 2007 album Salvation in Lights. Entitled as "Don't You Weep, Mary", this song is on The Kingston Trio compact disc Two Classic Albums.
There was also an adaptation of this song recorded in the Greek language. The title was "Mairi Mi Lypasai Pia", and was written and recorded by the Greek songwriter, Manos Xydous, on his 2010 album Otan tha fygo ena vrady apo 'do as well as on the collection Epityhies 2011.
In Denmark, the song was recorded in the sixties by the popular vocal group Four Jacks entitled "O Marie, Jeg Vil Hjem Til Dig". The subject was changed and turned into a comic story about a private in the Danish army who hated being a soldier and therefore was longing to return home to his sweet-heart, Marie. The single was very successful receiving a lot of airplay during the sixties, seventies and eighties.
Forget what all the critics are saying, it is a beautifully crafted movie and the performances are truly stellar.
I do wish to be sparred a little tolerance at this juncture to speak on a matter I find to be important, if for no other reason than I feel that I owe a debt of gratitude and reciprocal respect of the highest kind.
It seems that it has now become fashionable to bash anything that has something to do with the Holocaust... I find this behavior to be of an atrociously insensitive display of both ignorance and inherited, or affected, prejudices. Yet, as much as I too have grown a bit weary of the subject, due in part, no doubt, to the fact that most of the Hollywood studios were controlled for many years by members of the Jewish faith and there have been quite a number of films on the subject or in which the subject was brought up, the subject is due only the most earnest respect and never the less this is such a touching film and it made me (if you'll pardon the expression which has become so cliche, but it fits this particular occasion, it really does...) laugh, cry and it truly moved me.
(...and please spare me any of the recently vogue nonsense that the Holocaust is a myth. I worked with two Jewish gentlemen that were in their 70's in the early 1970's. Both were from Poland and one was in the Dachau camp and the other at Treblinka and both had numbers that had been tattooed on their wrists or forearm. One, Oskar, saw his entire family exterminated and He was only kept alive for the reason that He was a painter and the Nazi's had him constantly painting at the camp.They were but two of the crew of painters, all Europeans, that worked under my fathers direction as paint foreman for the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills back in the day. [I worked there for a couple of years total time, between 1972 and 1976, as an apprentice.] It was one of only two hotels, in the United States, rated five stars by Michelin back then. The least expensive room was $160.00 per night in 1972 and it was hardly bigger than a walk in closet but there was a genuine Modigliani hanging on the wall and in many of the rooms one could find genuine paintings by artists of equal stature. All decor was handled by Don Loper or other interior decorators of equal status all marble work was installed only by Italian artisans whom returned once a year for a couple of weeks to handle any repairs or additions. The rest of the crew consisted of a German, a Portuguese, a Romanian, a Frenchman, an Irishman and an Englishman, whom also just happened to be Jewish as well, Sam Rose was his name and became a very endeared friend of my fathers' over the years. I was fortunate to have been able to work as an apprentice with them as for what all that I learned of the trade and about matters of life as well. From those two Jewish gentlemen, that were interred by the Nazis, I learned my greatest lessons in humility, perseverance and hope.)
I certainly digressed from the short simple post I intended to write ....haven't I? Again, thank you all for your tolerance and patience.
ptv
...now about that "Tune"...
"O Mary Don't You Weep" (Traditional American Negro Spiritual) ~ Deron Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3viwF3pz8U&list=LL_GIQVo2-N_jmBSEcHpj6Fg&index=8
The following information is from wikipedia and is therefore not subjected to copyright restrictions:
Mary Don't You Weep" (alternately titled "O Mary Don't You Weep", "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn", or variations thereof) is a Negro spiritual that originates from before the American Civil War – thus it is what scholars call a "slave song," "a label that describes their origins among the enslaved," and it contains "coded messages of hope and resistance. It is one of the most important of Negro spirituals.
The song tells the Biblical story of Mary of Bethany and her distraught pleas to Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead. Other narratives relate to The Exodus and the Passage of the Red Sea, with the chorus proclaiming Pharaoh's army got drown-ded!, and to God's rainbow covenant to Noah after the Great Flood. With liberation thus one of its themes, the song again become popular during the 1950s and 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Additionally, a song that explicitly chronicles the victories of the Civil Rights Movement, "If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus", written by Charles Neblett of The Freedom Singers, was sung to this tune and became one of the most well-known songs of that movement.
In 2015 it was announced that The Swan Silvertones's version of the song will be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for the song's "cultural, artistic and/or historical significance to American society and the nation’s audio legacy"
The first recording of the song was by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1915. The best known recordings were made by the vocal gospel group The Caravans in 1958, with Inez Andrews as the lead singer, and The Swan Silvertones in 1959. "Mary Don't You Weep" became The Swan Silvertones' greatest hit, and lead singer Claude Jeter's interpolation "I'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name" served as Paul Simon's inspiration to write his 1970 song "Bridge over Troubled Water". The spiritual's lyric God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water the fire next time inspired the title for The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's 1963 account of race relations in America.
Many other recordings have been made, by artists ranging from The Soul Stirrers to Burl Ives. Pete Seeger gave it additional folk music visibility by performing it at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, and played it many times throughout his career, adapting the lyrics and stating the song's relevance as an American song, not just a spiritual. In 1960, Stonewall Jackson recorded a country version of the song, where Mary is a young woman left by her lover on the wedding day to fight in the civil war, and he died in the burning of Atlanta; the song became a hit when it peaked at #12 in Country charts and #41 in Pop charts. In the 1960s, Jamaican artist Justin Hinds had a ska hit with "Jump Out Of The Frying Pan", whose lyrics borrowed heavily from the spiritual. Paul Clayton's version "Pharaoh's Army" appears in "Home-Made Songs & Ballads", which was released in 1961. James Brown rewrote the lyrics of the original spiritual for his 1964 soul hit "Oh Baby Don't You Weep". Aretha Franklin recorded a live version of the song for her 1972 album Amazing Grace. An a cappella version by Take 6, simply called "Mary", received wide airplay after appearing on the group's eponymous debut album in 1988. The song is sung briefly at the beginning of the music video for Bone Thugs N Harmony's 1996 "Tha Crossroads". In a pounding big group folk arrangement, it was one of the highlights of the 2006 Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour. The song also appeared on Mike Farris' 2007 album Salvation in Lights. Entitled as "Don't You Weep, Mary", this song is on The Kingston Trio compact disc Two Classic Albums.
There was also an adaptation of this song recorded in the Greek language. The title was "Mairi Mi Lypasai Pia", and was written and recorded by the Greek songwriter, Manos Xydous, on his 2010 album Otan tha fygo ena vrady apo 'do as well as on the collection Epityhies 2011.
In Denmark, the song was recorded in the sixties by the popular vocal group Four Jacks entitled "O Marie, Jeg Vil Hjem Til Dig". The subject was changed and turned into a comic story about a private in the Danish army who hated being a soldier and therefore was longing to return home to his sweet-heart, Marie. The single was very successful receiving a lot of airplay during the sixties, seventies and eighties.
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CapAquaPis
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Ah yes 
, tonight is the blue moon (a month's 2nd full moon) under partly cloudy skies 
(monsoonal moisture returns to So CA) and I have this playing on my PC, from the latest Sailor Moon Crystal series. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Va228UhRs
, tonight is the blue moon (a month's 2nd full moon) under partly cloudy skies (monsoonal moisture returns to So CA) and I have this playing on my PC, from the latest Sailor Moon Crystal series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Va228UhRs
piercethevale
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"Distant cousins, there's a limited supply...
We're down to the dozens and this is why...
Big eyed beans from Venus...
don't let 'em come between us."
Captain Beefheart
"Big Eyed Beans From Venus" ~ Captain Beefheart (don't let 'em come between us.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF177Aj59C8
Captain Beefheart - Mirror Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBk20ujrZZU
We're down to the dozens and this is why...
Big eyed beans from Venus...
don't let 'em come between us."
Captain Beefheart
"Big Eyed Beans From Venus" ~ Captain Beefheart (don't let 'em come between us.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF177Aj59C8
Captain Beefheart - Mirror Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBk20ujrZZU
CapAquaPis
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From the 1970's educational musical short bumpers Schoolhouse Rock on ABC-TV Saturday mornings, Interplanet Janet shows us the planets of our solar system (yes, Pluto was mentioned, but this is from the 1970s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYVWJ82dQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYVWJ82dQQ
piercethevale
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Such an awesome song from Chris Cornell, formerly of Soundgarden. from the soundtrack of "Machine Gun Preacher" ....such an awesome tale, based on a true story.
The Lord moves in mysterious ways... that's for sure.
"Keeper of the Flame" ~ Chris Cornell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puinrmpdNnQ&index=1&list=LL_GIQVo2-N_jmBSEcHpj6Fg
...and I may have posted this before, worth a repeat if I did...
Nina Simone - "Revolution" {Live from the Harlem Cultural Festival 1969}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTNjeKqpEk&index=3&list=LL_GIQVo2-N_jmBSEcHpj6Fg
...and...
Gil Scott-Heron - Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Official Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw
The Lord moves in mysterious ways... that's for sure.
"Keeper of the Flame" ~ Chris Cornell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puinrmpdNnQ&index=1&list=LL_GIQVo2-N_jmBSEcHpj6Fg
...and I may have posted this before, worth a repeat if I did...
Nina Simone - "Revolution" {Live from the Harlem Cultural Festival 1969}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTNjeKqpEk&index=3&list=LL_GIQVo2-N_jmBSEcHpj6Fg
...and...
Gil Scott-Heron - Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Official Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw
Hephaistos
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Bewitching song by Lisa Gerrard (from the album Duality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iyx72CPCWo&list=PL2yhATACdIhtEK6aPtWufyJAu6Gsnnixi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iyx72CPCWo&list=PL2yhATACdIhtEK6aPtWufyJAu6Gsnnixi
It is an interesting title. It's the DCD and the sublime Ashes and snow lady. Which continent are you from?
Something to analyse all day long The Dead Weather - "Will There Be Enough Water" - live
Something to analyse all day long The Dead Weather - "Will There Be Enough Water" - live
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piercethevale
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As Venus is presently retrograde, people, just a word of advice...put so wonderfully to music by the incomparable Lenny Kravitz in the superb redition of his hit...unplugged, no less...well, kind of unplugged...
LET LOVE RULE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u_GLQEqZes
...and to me that just demands that it be followed by this ...as it was on the original cassette that I had of these tunes over 20 years ago...
also from the same "unplugged" session...
Mr. Cab Driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwlQv9FjUGw
LET LOVE RULE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u_GLQEqZes
...and to me that just demands that it be followed by this ...as it was on the original cassette that I had of these tunes over 20 years ago...
also from the same "unplugged" session...
Mr. Cab Driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwlQv9FjUGw
CapAquaPis
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13th Parallel, video filmed on location in I-515 in Vegas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXHdO93y_yw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXHdO93y_yw
It seems to me that the only thing I have learned during this Saturn in Scorpio transit period is to rediscover and value my own tradition.
Classic guitar meets timeless country's tradition to make ethereal music for the soul:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFwwIHw6nw&list=PLZRBVROW6b48ksUOkcU9ChKxWwkU15qkE&index=12
Classic guitar meets timeless country's tradition to make ethereal music for the soul:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFwwIHw6nw&list=PLZRBVROW6b48ksUOkcU9ChKxWwkU15qkE&index=12
Blaze
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I can't link it cause I'll get the ban hammer, but I'm listening to an artist named Mistro. His song "Let em loose" is very well done. As a fellow Vegan I would like anyone who cares to give it a listen.
I'm also listening to some Vamps music:
- I gotta kick start now
- Evanescent
I'm also listening to some Vamps music:
- I gotta kick start now
- Evanescent
multiple
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enjoying the latest stuff from everything everything. funny, surreal, epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESbE9OrB-8M
"oh baby it's alright to feel like a fat child in pushchair! old enough to run, old enough to fire a gun!"
I like the themes of their songs. another old favourite this one about potential;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FwTkuFkybc
for ambient moods, new thing from wolfgang voigt has had quite a few plays, nationalpark rückverzauberung 10. heres an excerpt;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJiiqQu4FiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESbE9OrB-8M
"oh baby it's alright to feel like a fat child in pushchair! old enough to run, old enough to fire a gun!"
I like the themes of their songs. another old favourite this one about potential;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FwTkuFkybc
for ambient moods, new thing from wolfgang voigt has had quite a few plays, nationalpark rückverzauberung 10. heres an excerpt;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJiiqQu4FiE