image link Eat a Peach is another one of those 25c at a yard sale CDs that I didn’t have a lot of investment going into it when I listened. I bought it because I recognized the song title from a CD compilation of various hits of the 70’s I used to listen to at…
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Renaissance — A Trip to the Fair
image link I had to take a work day trip to near Detroit yesterday. While driving I passed through/near two big college towns, Lansing (Michigan State U) and Ann Arbor (U of Michigan), which means college radio stations. Yes! Somewhere along the way yesterday, while channel surfing, I heard familiar piano chords. Despite it being…
River Run Red — Midnight Oil
One of the best riffs of any song I’ve heard. From 1999’s Midnight Oil’s, Blue Sky Mining. One thing I love about this band is their acute caring for Mother Gaia. The whole CD is a work of beauty and caring for precious things. the daily prompt — riff
The Daily Prompt — Black — Soil and PJ
image link The first thing that comes to mind with the word Black is Eddie Vedder mournfully wailing about his lost love. More about that later. The next thing is soil. Connected to yesterday’s prompt, neophyte, before I knew anything about gardening, my belief was that the blacker the soil was the better it was…
Musician of the Day — Steve Earle
image link I first “met” Steve when I bought one of his CDs at a yard sale for 25c. I’d never heard of him before but his name as well as the title had a twanginess to them that had me hoping it would be old school country. The investment was a quarter. The CD…
Day 31 — OctWriPoMo — Pearl Jam
image link Today is the final day of the 31 days 31 poems challenge of OctWriPoMo. My choice of form is the acrostic, and the subject is one of my favorite musical groups, Pearl Jam. The words used are all PJ song titles. Present tense, push me, pull me Even flow, Amongst the waves, animal,…
“1952 Vincent Black Lightning,” by Richard Thompson
image linkimage link Years ago a friend of mine gave me a mix tape with this song on it. It tells a burning love story that has no end. The kind of love that usually crashes and burns. One day in 2006 I met my “young James”. ‘Tis true, my heart did thump at remembering…
Tao-Talk 