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Midweek Music Break: Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, with Warren Haynes,...
[Video from In Performance at the White House: Red, Hot, and Blues] [Original lyrics, by Etta James] I first encountered the name Derek Trucks within a few years after I’d moved down here. Some kid...
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Midweek Music Break: Benny Goodman Orchestra, “One O’Clock Jump”
Count Basie wrote this iconic Big Band number in 1937, and played it as his theme song for half a century. Almost every other band of the time recorded its own version; the one presented here made its...
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Weekend (Something Like) Music Break: The Lake House Band, “Five Dollar...
[Image: "laundry day," by user eleanor ryan on Flickr] You’d think a computer professional who got new computers both at work and at home within a few days’ time would be in a shuddery ecstasy of geek...
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Midweek Music Break: B.B. King, “To Know You Is to Love You”
I had this clever (well, okay: lame) idea to devote this Mid-Week Music Break to a playlist about gratitude of one kind or another, for one experience or another. But after riffling through the stacks...
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Midweek Music Break: Gary Moore, “Still Got the Blues (For You)”
[Lyrics] Like many — maybe most — Americans with an interest in music (blues or otherwise), I know very little about the Northern Irish singer-songwriter-guitarist Gary Moore. The little I do know...
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Something Beyond
[Image: “beyond, the river,” by a photographer whose name displays simply as “susan” (her full account name, though, is “bunchadogs & susan”). I found it on Flickr, of course, and use it here...
View ArticleWeekend Music Break: Eric Bibb and Jean-Jacques Milteau: “Good Night Irene”
My quest continues to clean up older music-related posts here whose little audio-player plugins are outdated (and hence won’t play in some browsers). This led me to a favorite series, called “What’s...
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