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Sunday, January 25, 2026
Mark Knopfler And Emmylou Harris - Arena Di Verona, Verona, Italy June 3rd 2006 | Floppy Boot Stomp
ADVERT BREAK | WAR CHILD
HELP(2) - Album Trailer - War Child Records
SUNDAY LESSONS : Thought of The Day | Hitch on Mother Theresa!
All Chris Hitchens bits from the Penn and Teller TV show on Mother Teresa
GUESS I’M DUMB - a statement
It isn’t every day that the music blogs cover politics. Friends out in the blogosphere let me know often what their persuasions and beliefs are but this was the latest post from the brilliant Guess I’m Dumb earlier on . . . . .just this
I found it worth sharing here . . . . . .
Talk Talk - It’s Time [The Colour of Spring] | jt1674
. . . . . . time for some more Mark Hollis (sorely missed)
Blues Myths - Will Howard | DANGEROUS MINDS
This is really worth a read . . . . . . I guess it never really struck me before that Robert Johnson’s disappearance and much lauded return suddenly 9sic) able to play like a master being from a meeting with the Devil and a pact struck down at the crossroads being a marketing ploy was so much better than the days [months years?] spent learninging to master his instrument and that it should enter the popular zeitgeist and became a central part of the myth still popular today. The death of legendary blues man Blind Lemon might also be such . . .spread to encourage sales by person or person unknown and this never occurred to me either. read on here

Did Blind Lemon Jefferson die from poisoned coffee?
Birthdays : Dr John Cooper-Clarke
Happy birthday to John Cooper Clarke, born in Salford on this day in 1949.
Let him be your vacuum cleaner, breathing in your dust.
"What kind of creature bore you?Was it some kind of bat?They can’t find a good word for youbut I can . . . . . . "
V.A. - Tom Waits covers, Volume 4: 2013-2023 | Albums That Should Exist |Paul and Fabio!
Covered: Tom Waits, Volume 4: 2013-2023
Paul says: Here's the fourth and last album in the Covered series celebrating the songs of Tom Waits by collecting cover versions.
Once again, I have to thank Fabio from Rio for being the prime mover behind putting these Waits albums together. He selected a large number of songs, and I narrowed it down to a reasonable amount. And one again, Fabio was nice enough to do the write up. So, take it away, Fabio:
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Waits released his last studio record to date ("Bad as Me") in 2011. His later works revisit all earlier phases in fragmented, refined form. Waits alternates tender ballads with abrasive rhythm experiments, presenting a distilled, self-aware summary of his artistic language rather than a new stylistic break.
This last volume with performances from the 2010s and 2020s is mostly filled with female voices, hinting that, musically, Waits has become something of a ladies' man — at least for a younger generation of singers.
Here again we have a wild range of different styles, from forties-like doo-wop (Ice Cream Man) to eighties-drum-machine-electro-pop ("All Stripped Down"), from jazz and blues rock ("Fumblin' with the Blues", "Shore Leave") to americana and alt-country ("Walk Away", "Blue Skies").
We will also find adult contemporary ("In-Between Love"), dark cabaret ("Little Drop of Poison", "Starving in the Belly of a Whale"), R&B ("Such a Scream"), and confessional ballad ("Martha") in the mix.
Tom Jones makes "Bad as Me" his own. "Emotional Weather Report" is a deep cut taken from the little-known jazz and spoken-word Waits seventies album "Nighthawks on the Radio", which highlights Tom Waits' deadpan humor.
Other standouts are Rosanne Cash's "Time" and Aimee Mann's version for "Hold On" - which kind of reminded me, in spirit if not in sound, of the acappella version sung by Emily Kinney as Beth Greene in "The Walking Dead" - one of the most poignant moments of the entire series(*).
(*) You can check it out (along with Tom Waits' original version) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNeGLUAUbgQ&list=RDGNeGLUAUbgQ
This album is 55 minutes long.
01 Walk Away (Steel Wheels)
02 Bad as Me (Tom Jones)
03 Emotional Weather Report (Marissa Mulder)
04 All Stripped Down (Lisa Bassenge)
05 Ice Cream Man (Hazelnuts)
06 Blue Skies (Lisa Bassenge)
07 In Between Love (Jennifer Porter)
08 Such a Scream (Good Paper of Rev. Rob Mortimer)
09 Fumblin' with the Blues (Natascha & the Spy Boys)
10 Little Drop of Poison (Ellie Gunn and the Firethornes)
11 Hold On (Aimee Mann)
12 Time (Rosanne Cash)
13 Starving in the Belly of a Whale (Belladone)
14 Martha (Jackie Greene)
15 Shore Leave (Nickel)
