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Midweek Music Break: Deana Carter, “Did I Shave My Legs for This?”
[Image: Deana Carter, circa 1995] A bit of urban folklore which I sort of remember (and sort of don’t) from years ago, regarding a difference between the sexes: Boys roll; girls fold. The rolling-and-folding in question was (supposedly) of paper programs for events like football games, concerts, and church services. (I may have mixed up the [...]
Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, “Home”
Several of Running After My Hat‘s regular commenthood are overhauling what “home” means to them: Nance – and Mr. Mature, of course — are caught up in readying their house for a (dearly longed-for) sale. Marta — amongst writing a flash-fiction story every day this month, and competitive skating, and teaching, and the gods know what else [...]
Midweek Music Break: Cowboy Junkies, “Angels in the Wilderness”
[Image: Cowboy Junkies (from top: Alan Anton, bass; Margo Timmins, vocals; Peter Timmins, drums; and Michael Timmins, guitar)] Cowboy Junkies was the first band I ever listened two who’d been dubbed “alt”-anything. (It may have been alt-country, but I’m pretty sure it was plain old alternative rock.) This made me feel all, y’know, not quite dangerous, [...]
Midweek Music Break: Water Liars, “Dog Eaten”
[Image(s): Water Liars. You'd never imagine that a couple of guys who look like this would write, play, and sing so sweetly, would you?] I don’t know how the duo who call themselves Water Liars came up with that name. I do know, however, that it’s the title of the first story in a collection by [...]
Midweek Music Break: The Band, “Rockin’ Chair”
[The Band (circa 1969), left to right: Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson] I‘ve posted about The Band exactly once, and barely then — tacking “All La Glory” onto the end of a whiskey river Friday post in December, 2008. I’ve not been ignoring them offline; in fact, as with (to take [...]
Midweek Music Break: Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, with Warren Haynes, “I’d Rather Go Blind”
[Video from In Performance at the White House: Red, Hot, and Blues] [Original lyrics, by Etta James] I first encountered the name Derek Trucks within a few years after I’d moved down here. Some kid was doing a show at a club in town — an amazing blues guitarist, said the newspaper preview, and only [...]
Midweek Music Break: The Ramsey Lewis Trio, “The ‘In’ Crowd” and “Wade in the Water”
[Image: Ramsey Lewis, by Kagan McLeod. (Original here, at McLeod's blog of "music-themed ink drawings" called Oooh, and I Like It.) McLeod says in the comments there that he drew this "straight to ink," without benefit of pencil sketch; both this technique and the drawing per se, I think, parallel the experience of listening to [...]
Midweek Music Break Playlist: Windows to the Soul
[Image: girl, dancing, in giant eye costume. Note the hands: one giving "thumbs-up!" sign, one holding a cocktail. I have no idea if this is an advertising image or what; found it at a couple of places, never with any explanation.] (Note: The playlist goes automatically from start to finish, once you click the little [...]
Midweek Music Break: The Animals, “The House of the Rising Sun”
[Image: The Animals (original image doctored up by Jude Kane and found on Freakoutville Xpress). And they looked like such nice boys...] To get it out of the way right up front: no house in New Orleans called the “Rising Sun” ever existed.* Or rather, more precisely: never definitively, and no one establishment. Furthermore, it may [...]
The Calm at the Core of Disorder
[Lyrics] [Video: "Saints & Liars," by Pony Boy. See the note at the foot of this post for more information.] From whiskey river: There is tremendous power in unearthing, in recognizing distracted, scattered mind, the mind which would rather be anywhere but here, and spending some time there, with that mind. Rather than being an [...]
