Bonus video: The sun was shining today on the sycamores of Sweet Street today and I was able to capture a video of them. Today’s Celtic letter “F” is dedicated to Fall. On my way to GR while listening to pandora radio –it’s synching with my car’s blutooth again– I heard some…
Category: music
Coloring Club Plus — 10/27/19
First off, Happy Diwali! I went looking in my books and found one of the symbols connected with it. Not sure what it means, but it is like a teardrop mandala. Bird and Diz is a studio album by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. It was recorded primarily on June 6, 1950…
#SLS –The Stooges, Down on the Street
Jim Adams is the illustrious host of Song Lyric Sunday, which is sporting its new banner and newly-named guitar-playing, sombrero-wearing worm, Santana! Jim says: This week the prompt is Lost/Found/Hide/Seek. Try to find a song that fits the prompt, then write your post and since I won’t need to approve your pingbacks any more, this…
Coloring Club Plus — 10/26/19
The Carter Family: 1927-1934. Looking at amazon, I see that I have only disc 5 of a 5-disc set. The following is a “product description” by amazon: A foundation stone of the popular music of the twentieth century. Moving, fascinating and enjoyable! It’s not too much to say that in the late ’20s the trio…
Coloring Club Plus — 10/25/19
First off, I want to thank Stroke Survivor UK for posting a song by Shane MacGowan in this past Sunday’s Song Lyric Sunday, which led to a short conversation, which led me to borrowing one of The Pogues’ albums from my local library. The Pogues were an Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan…
Coloring Club Plus — 10/24/19 (no coloring but book illustration)
Gord’s Gold, Vol. 2 is a compilation album released by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot in 1988. Like the first Gord’s Gold collection, Vol. 2 features re-recordings of earlier hits alongside the contemporary material. On Gord’s Gold only the early songs that didn’t match Lightfoot’s 1970s sound (and whose original masters were owned by Lightfoot’s former…
Coloring Club Plus — 10/23/19
I chose this one from the album because it is the only one that Levon got writing credit for on it. Love for Levon: Benefit To Save The Barn was a concert held on October 3, 2012 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The concert was a tribute to the life…
