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…
Category: music
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…
“Habit” by Pearl Jam
photo credit link The photo is the CD cover for Pearl Jam’s 1996′ No Code. When I saw the daily prompt was “Inhabit” my first thought was the cut on this CD called, “Habit”. You might say wait the word is INhabit, so what’s the connection. The way PJ uses habit here is similar to…
“The Queen of Hearts” album Offa Rex
I was blessed enough to buy this LP (and MP3) and have been listening to it steadily ever since. The voices, the melodies, the instruments, the lyrics, every bit is exquisite. Go out to youtube and check out more cuts, but if you want to do yourself a favor, buy this CD and get ongoing…
“Hold Your Head Up,” by Argent
For some reason this song popped into my head this morning. I love the throbbing beat of it, the vocals, and the groovy keyboard work. That said, I have no context for this hit, which compelled me to look further. Here you go, this is what I found. In case you don’t know the song…
Tao-Talk 