Entries Tagged as ‘Music’

July 2, 2009

Stand By Me

As covers go, pretty darn good.

March 16, 2009

Just Another Band from East L.A.

Good musicians play good music, no matter what style they may be known for or where it came from. These guys have been around for a long time, playing what they want and not necessarily what the commercial music industry wants to hear. Good for them.
Los Lobos (“The Wolves”) are an American rock band, influenced by rock and roll, Tejano [...]

January 15, 2009

Tommy Emmanuel

     

Tommy Emmanuel
Originally uploaded by Riru
I think, therefore I play
Tommy Emmanuel is one of my favorite musicians. From Australia, Emmanuel is a “Certified Guitar Player.” This is a big deal in the guitar world, being personally presented by Chet Atkins. I don’t go to concerts anymore, but he’ll be playing in Knoxville this month and if [...]

January 11, 2009

Clarence Turns 67

Everybody is getting older, even the Big Man from E Street.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clarence Clemons (born January 11, 1942) is an American musician, best known as the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
Biography
Clemons was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and raised in Norfolk County. He attended Maryland State College (now the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore) on a football athletic scholarship — he was a lineman with professional football aspirations until [...]

December 14, 2008

Tom Jones

Tom Jones is 68 years old.  I don’t know how that happened, we were both so young just a little while ago.  Excuse me while I have a Nick Nolte moment . . .
From Wiki
Sir Thomas John Woodward KBE (born 7 June 1940), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh pop music singer particularly noted for his powerful [...]

December 6, 2008

Fat City Reprise – Long Gone

This video isn’t really my kind of music so I can’t say if it is good or not.  But the video is absolutely amazing, considering it was made using 45,000 digital photographs.
[http://vimeo.com/2416897]

November 19, 2008

Jimmy on Lulu

Two of my favorites – for completely different reasons – are Lulu and Jimmy Hendrix. That Hendrix appeared on Lulu’s TV show just blows my mind. But thanks to YouTube, here is proof that it happened. Hendrix was kicked off the air for changing the song they were playing. You gotta love live television.
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November 8, 2008

Regrets

Here’s a little something I missed when I decided not to go with some of the kids around town to a “free” concert in New York. Figured if it was free, it wouldn’t be that good . . .

November 7, 2008

Guess Who?

How many of the people appearing in this video can you name?
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