Kelly Boesch : PRETTY THINGS

 "PRETTY THINGS"

Kelly Says: 

‘Pretty Things’ is an intimate look at the struggle between the body and the soul. I wanted to write something that ignores the mirror and instead judges worth by the invisible...the ‘pretty things’ we say and the messy, beautiful chaos of the brain. It’s not about being okay; it’s about being heard.

One of my favorite things to do with ai is come up with interesting characters. I was playing around with puppets. I actually love puppets and puppet shows. Having the ability to make my own puppets is magical. I am really a child at heart and still love fairytales and stories. I hope to give people the dreamy feeling of a fairytale like story with my videos. I put a lot of thought into these videos and personal feelings. I’ve not been posting daily as I used to so I can have some time between each video to really be thoughtful about what I post. I have also been extremely busy and making sure I don’t burn out is important. :-)Thank all of you for your continued support and beautiful, uplifting comments. They mean the world to me.

Lyrics written by me, Kelly Boesch. Music created under my creative direction with assistance from Suno.

Kelly Boesch 

Leonard Cohen - Let’s Sing Another Song, Boys (Take 1 edit) |

Sing Another Song, Boys [Take 1 Edit]

Leonard Cohen

Unreleased studio version, 1970

Sing Another Song, Boys [Take 1 Edit]Leonard Cohen

Unreleased studio version, 1970

 . . . . . and this one . . . . Maestro

let’s sing another song boys this one has grown old and bitter. . . . 

 HERBERG DE KELDER

Kramer & Bill Frisell - Porpoise Song [The Brill Building Book 2] | jt1674

  . . . ooh we like this

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/808710856695267328/kramer-and-bill-frisell-porpoise-song

Today’s story from Will at DANGEROUS MINDS is worth a read

 

Alicia Machado: the Miss Universe winner who was bullied by Donald Trump

Will Howard

Sun 15 February 2026 21:00, UK

Donald Trump owning the Miss Universe Organization should be as absurd and foul a concept as Jeffrey Epstein running the Girl Guides.

Paul Brady - For it Being a Christmas Morning | Tigh Matt Molloy | Geantraí na Nollag 2009 | TG4 | ARTHUR McBRIDE

Paul Brady - For It Being a Christmas Morning | Tigh Matt Molloy | 

Geantraí na Nollag 2009 | TG4 

For Dave Sealyman!

Dave dropped by to chat about the last version of this great song I posted by Paul Brady Arthur McBride on Dylan’s 80th Birthday (go seek it out) and all t’others as well [especially the filmic version with his promo vid when he first released it as a single]. and I mentioned this version which annoyed me for the reasons discussed below but I couldn't wait until next Christmas to post this version so this is here and mostly for our Dave who has always been a long standing and much appreciated supporter

Now this annoyed me . . . . . but how do you expect folks to find a particular song by an artist if you can’t even title it correctly . . .and an Irish source to boot!?

Paul Brady favourite especially at Christmas I couldn’t find this one to post on December 25th!

Why? Because it is a traditional Irish song called 'Arthur McBride' sometimes 'Arthur McBradie and the ?Sergeant' or even 'Arthur McBride and The Soldiers' . . . nowhere is it referred to as “It Being A Christmas Morning’which is a line from the first verse and that alone as far as I can tell here

Consequently I couldn’t find this wonderful version on Irish Television from channel TG4 in 2009

Nowhere on the header or titling is Arthur even mentioned! Now that is Irish!

It’s called blarney!

Art of The Day : Don Van Vliet - One Step From The Jungle | Gary Lucas

Don Van Vliet

"One Step From The Jungle"

1988

oil on canvas

Gary Lucas

The Angry Bee! Stevie Martin & Will Collier | The Horne Section

Song For A Monday - The Horne Section!

The Angriest Duet From Stevie Martin & Will Collier | The Horne Section TV Show

START THE WEEK with HARRY!

Harry Sacksioni that is . . . . for a laugh watch this with sound down first and then again with the sound UP!

Made me smile!

For all my guitar playing obsessed guitar monkeys like me!

UB40 - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert Brixton Academy London UK 1998 | Albums That Should Exist

 

UB40 - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Brixton Academy, London, UK 12-20-1998

Paul said : I was looking through my music collection the other day, and noticed some albums I thought I'd posted but I'd somehow missed. This is one. Between 2022 and 2025, I posted five albums of UB40 performing for the BBC, all of them from the early 1980s. This sixth BBC album is a concert from well over a decade later, in 1998.

Personally, I like early UB40, but I feel they went downhill after finding mainstream success. Be that as it may, I found this concert, and I didn't have to edit it much, so I figured I might as well post it. It came right after the release of their studio album "Labour of Love III." Like the two previous albums in that series, it consists entirely of cover versions. So if you don't like later UB40, this actually mostly consists of covers, plus early songs, like "Tyler" and "King." 

There also were two special guests: Ken Boothe and Winston Groovy. Boothe was a big reggae star in the 1960s and 70s. He had tons of hits in Jamaica, and also two big hits in Britain in the 1970s: "Everything I Own" and "Crying Over You." The latter song was performed here. Groovy also was a big reggae star in that same general time period. His best known song, "Please Don't Make Me Cry," was covered by UB40 on their 1983 album "Labour of Love," and was a hit for them. He performed the song with them here.

As far as edits go, I only made one alternation, but it was a big one. It turns out the lead vocals were really low in the mix. I used the UVR5 program to bring those up to normal levels.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 56 minutes long. 

01 Come Back Darling 
02 Homely Girl 
03 Here I Am [Come and Take Me] 
04 talk
05 Crying Over You (UB40 with Ken Boothe)
06 Kingston Town
07 talk
08 Tyler 
09 King 
10 I'll Be There 
11 Wear You to the Ball 
12 Red Red Wine 
13 Love It When You Smile 
14 Can't Help Falling in Love 
15 Please Don't Make Me Cry (UB40 with Winston Groovy)

All tracks UB40 except where noted  

and Paul posted this (accidentally?) on Ali Campbell’s birthday!!!

Amongst My Top Ten Albums of ALL Time? Crawfish Fiesta - Professor Longhair

 Start the week with this if nothing else! . . . . . . 

Crawfish Fiesta

I discovered the Fess through Dr John and started collecting everything I could find live boots everything and when this ‘New’ album just came out (produced by Mac) only to find the album had a stamped message on the cover that Fess had died and then after watching the first music programme on the UK’s newest channel, Channel 4 [Piano Players Rarely Play Together featuring Fess, Allan Toussaint and Tuts Washington] documentary profile film shows The Professor’s funeral and New Orleans wake as he died during it’s making . . . . . it stood for years as one of my top three albums of all time and is always in my top ten I would say

Play this at my funeral!