[Post Pop Depression] discuss[es] issues of what happens when your utility is at an end, and dealing with your legacy. – Iggy Pop Hello everyone. It is a real honor and pleasure to be invited to Hans’ song draft. Being a person who likes patterns and order, I was trying to figure out how to…
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Friday Favorite Feature 32 “Lady Blue” by Lions in the Street
Lions in the Street (image from their website) This is a band I found on SRR and the more I listen to the band the more I like it. They have great vocal harmonies, good guitar work, and lovely progressions in their melodies. Their discography includes their eponymous debut in 2009, On the Lam EP…
MMB Week 18 (was Women Music March 2022 – Day 20 –) Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens. click on link to take you to a PBS interview Rhiannon Giddens (b. 2/21/77) is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country, blues and old-time music band Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she is the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player. Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina,…
MMB 2024 Week 17 — Mr. George Jones
George Jones (click on link to George’s biography in the Country Music Hall of Fame) Anyone who has read my blog for awhile knows that George Jones is my favorite country singer. There is something about not only the range of his voice but the genuine passion with which he sings that has nobody else…
#MMB week 16 — John Hiatt, “Icy Blue Heart”
John Hiatt John Robert Hiatt (b. 8/20/52) is an American singer-songwriter. His parents were Robert and Ruth Hiatt. He is the sixth of seven children in a Roman Catholic family from Indianapolis, Indiana. When he was 9 years old, Hiatt’s 21-year-old brother Michael died by suicide. Two years later, his father died after a long…
dVerse — Q199 — Every Day is Friday
Every Day is Friday For awhile Fridaysmeant something to me:–school week’s end–date night–party night–work week end;Then things changed to:–graduated–married–divorced–four-day work weeks;Now:–retired–every day is Friday. De Jackson aka WhimsyGizmo is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De would like us to write a quadrille (44 words total, not counting title) using the word Friday.
Friday Favorite Feature 29 — “Balu” by Elbow
Elbow Elbow are an English rock band formed in Bury, Greater Manchester in 1997. Elbow’s musical style has been described as alternative rock, indie rock, indie pop, Britpop, art rock, progressive rock, dream pop, post-rock, and post-Britpop. Elbow have cited a number of influences on their music, including Genesis (in particular the progressive rock years…
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