PATTI SMITH - Because the Night
Patti Smith ~ Because The Night (Live 2007)
Happy birthday to Patti Smith, born in Chicago, Illinois on this day in 1946
Monday, December 30, 2024
“Ain’t I a Woman?” Who said that? The Sojourner Truth Project
I thought this was interesting and I always believed the transcription I read . . . turns out it was horse doody! and the worse kind of racism rather than out n out blatant stuff the supposed well meaning white woman who penned this garbage was guilty of the most scurrilous misrepresentation!
Who Knew?
Well we SHOULD have !
Read the two versions side by side linked below and Sojourner Truth will gain even more in our estimation
Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that Truth said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims Sojourner was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).
Frances Gage
Shocked and yet don’t s’pose I should be but compare the two articles here!
Be warned the attempt at pidgeon is deeply offensive in my view and I am a sad old white man!
https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/
The Long Ryders - I Had A Dream (1984) | Guess I’m Dumb
The Long Ryders - I Had A Dream (1984)
Last tune on their debut LP, and maybe the best thing they ever did.
I had a dream last night
Nobody’s crying, nobody’s frightened
Still some hope in sight, that was last night
I love this . . . .
Dexys Midnight Runners - Let’s Make This Precious (BBC Version) (1982) | Guess I’m Dumb
Dexys Midnight Runners - Let’s Make This Precious (BBC Version) (1982)
"Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is one of my faves, and in between that LP and their big hit LP Too-Rye-Ay, Dexys Mk II recorded an number of singles and a BBC session. Let’s Make This Precious later reappeared with the fiddles and whatnot, but I much prefer this rendition, which retains a lot of the sound of their first LP."
No, not those guitars, they’re too noisy and crude
Never the Dexy’s biggest fan but this is FAB!
Drowning In The Sea Of Love - Joe Simon (1973) | Le Ramasseur De Mégots
Drowning In The Sea Of Love - Joe Simon (Drowning In The Sea Of Love, 1973)
Le Ramasseur De Mégots
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know - Live du Grand Journal [Canal+]
Don’t quite know how I missed this one (it IS on French TV!?!) but this live version from Lily of her cover version of Keane's 'Somewhere Only We Know' from her album Sheezus is just beautiful, at once strong and vulnerable and also as she is always delightfully honest! We loved (love?) Lily and I was turned onto her work by my daughter around the time her first music broke but I had been a fan of her Dad for years a truly great and fascinating and slightly daunting actor who developed a niche spot quite unique in British acting . . . . . . (we like her Mum too!)
Lily Allen performs live 'Somewhere Only We Know' from her album "Sheezus" The artist gave a wonderful live performance on the set of the TV show "Le Grand Journal" on CANAL+. Check out the full show of "Le Grand Journal" on http://canalplus.fr/legrandjournal
with added Marion Cotillard ( 'Midnight in Paris’ ) moved to tears I think
This to take you to your bed and I may be away from the keyboard again tomorrow as another appointment at hospital beckons . . . . . . .wish me luck! What me worry!?
The Best From Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass | Voodoo Wagon - a draftervoi special
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Dee Jay Sampler - The Best From Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Dee Jay Sampler - The Best From Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass
A&M Records LP 9004
Ah, jeez...the BACK cover says LP 9004 (MONO),
the front cover has SP 19004, and the discs have LP-9004
DRAFTERVOI HE SAY:(LP-9009) and LP-9004 (LP-9010)OF NOTE...these are all MONO MIXES(Back to MONO I say!)
01 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)
02 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - South Of The Border
03 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Mexican Shuffle
04 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - A Taste Of Honey
05 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream
06 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
07 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Zorba The Greek
08 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Cabaret
09 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Tijuana Taxi
10 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - What Now My Love
11 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - If I Were A Rich Man
12 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Mame
13 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Work Song
14 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Casino Royale
15 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - A Banda
16 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - This Guy's In Love With You
Okay, gang, here's the story on this one.A few years ago, I found a stereo version of "The Lonely Bull." The stereo is weird, they push all the instruments to one channel, and dump the trumpet into the other, and it lacks the punch of the original mono mix. It just sounds wrong. I tracked down a mono version and all was right for the world.
But it wasn't the end of it: A friend of mine is a trumpet player and studying for a degree in music (at the grand old age of 68...hi Gary!). That led us into discovering that the mono mixes of the Herb Alpert records are often slightly different from the stereo mixes, so of course I had to track them down.
This led me to discover that a "Dee Jay Sampler" of the mono mixes had been issued in 1969, so I bid on a copy on Ebay, digitized it, cleaned up the clicks and pops, applied some fade ins and outs between tracks, and tightened up the silence between tracks. Eight seconds before the next song? In the future, we don't have as much patience as in 1969.
This is LOADED with songs that were lurking in the charts when I was a child; all but two of them hit the Billboard Hot #100 ("South of the Border," and "If I Were A Rich Man" didn't chart).
HIPSTERS TAKE NOTE: Mr. Alpert played the wild trumpet part on reggae group UB40's "Rat In Mi Kitchen.” It’s troo!
Anyway...long story short, these are MONO versions, from a reasonably clean copy of the LP. I'll probably clean this one and try again in a few years but for right now...this is pretty good.Yeah, it's not rock and roll, it's not weird be-boop jazz, it's just pop verging on Muzak, and yeah, my dad would FINALLY approve of something I posted (were he alive), Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï says,"Give it a spin."Seriously, this stuff is fun music.
We LOVE Herb!
We’re Hip we know what cooks, easy listening or no this is the master trumpeter hisself!
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
And a Christmas message from Art From The Future
Washboard Pete - Christmas Blues
and the ubiquitous mudwerks
Washboard Pete | Christmas Blues (1948)
Savoy Records 1948 B/W Neighbourhood Blues Ralph Willis (Guitar/Voc),Washboard Pete (Washboard)
From FLOPPY BOOT STOMP | THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP - BBC Sessions Volume 2 (1966-1967) | An XRay Special
THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP - BBC Sessions Volume 2 (1966-1967)
from Xray at FLOPPY BOOT STOMP
THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP
BBC Sessions Volume 2 (1966-1967)
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