Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Wayfaring Stranger
An evening pause: Performed live 2018.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Tag: entertainment
Victory Boyd – The Star Spangled Banner
An evening pause: Victory Boyd was supposed to perform the national anthem at the opening game of the NFL’s 2021 season. They canceled her because she has refused to get vaccinated for religious reasons. She responded with this performance made available to all. The NFL should burn in hell.
Her passion in singing the last two lines of the anthem are important. The words, “The land of the free, the home of the brave,” are meant to remind us that you can’t have the former without the latter. Right now, every time I see someone mindlessly wearing a mask I wonder if the latter still exists.
Sing it! Believe it! Make ’22 the year that freedom and courage return to America.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Mike Rowe -The One Percenters
A mid-day pause: It’s a holiday today, so I guess a mid-day pause is okay.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Alison Krauss & Union Station – The Lucky One
An evening pause: Performed live 2005.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Linda Ronstadt – Tumbling Dice
An evening pause: From the film FM (1978).
Hat tip Dan Steele.
Lainey Wilson – Things A Man Oughta Know
An evening pause: Unlike yesterday’s song, this song should be the anthem for today’s generation, especially the men. The chorus:
How to know when it’s love
How to stay when it’s tough
How to know you’re messing up a good thing
And how to fix it fore it’s too late
And yea I know a boy
Who gave up and got it wrong
If you really love a woman you don’t let her go
Yeah I know few things a man oughta know
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp – This is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr
An evening pause: This could be the anthem of anyone younger than 20 after their experience during the past two years. Masks and fear-mongering and lies, lies, LIES. It breaks my heart to know that these lies have robbed a whole generation of hope and faith in the greatness that is possible in all humans. And without hope or faith in doing the impossible, not even the possible will be easy.
Note too that Hedy Lamarr proved in her life that the impossible was possible.
Hat tip Wayne Devette.
Raymond Crowe – Shadow puppets
An evening pause: Performed live, 2011, to the song, What A Wonderful World, sung by Louis Armstrong.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
B-52s – Rock Lobster
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Cheap Trick – Stop this Game
An evening pause: Performed live 1980.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Tracey Thorn – Why Does the Wind?
An evening pause: Performed live 2010.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Nana Visitor – Fever
An evening pause: Another musical gem from the sixth season of the Star Trek series, Deep Space Nine.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Amy Macdonald – Let’s Start A Band
An evening pause: Performed live 2017.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Turbo – Happy Birthday
An evening pause: I dare you not to smile. Or even laugh.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Cure – Why Can’t I Be You
An evening pause: Boy, is he having fun singing this. From 2019.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Heart – Alone
An evening pause: Performed live 1987. I posted a pause of this group performing this song, with full orchestra, one year ago. This performance is more intimate with just the band. It also was done thirty years earlier, so they are younger and more intense.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Punch Brothers – Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
An evening pause: Performed live March 2022 in Boston, where it appears things might finally be going back to normal.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Belinda Carlisle – Leave A Light On
An evening pause: Performed live 1990.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Doctor Who – The Master Summons the Sea Devil
An evening pause: I never watched Dr. Who, so I have no idea if this clip is a typical representation of the show. Its schlockiness however is quite impressive.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Brothers Comatose & AJ Lee – Harvest Moon
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.