Tuba Skinny – Jubilee Stomp
An evening pause: Performed with real joy, on the streets of New Orleans.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Tag: music
Marilyn Maye – You’re Gonna Hear From Me/Cabaret
An evening pause: Performed live 1967.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Kansas – Dust in the Wind
An evening pause: Performed live c2011. While I consider the music of this song truly beautiful, I personally despise the nihilist sentiments of the lyrics. There is more to life and existence than dust and nothingness, even if we as humans can’t quite figure it out. For this reason I have for years refused to post this song as an evening pause when others have suggested it.
I decided this time to finally let it play, mostly because the violin solo here is so well done.
Hat tip Chris Petty.
West Point Band and Glee Club – Mansions of the Lord
An evening pause: For Memorial Day, a repost from 2020. The words:
To fallen soldiers let us sing
Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
To the Mansions of the Lord
No more bleeding, no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
Just divine embrace, eternal light
To the Mansions of the Lord.
Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard though the angels sleep
Through the ages safely keep
The Mansions of the Lord.
Muse – Starlight
An evening pause: Performed live c2013.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Lorin Hollander – 1st movement Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1
An evening pause: Performed live on television, 1963.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Wallflowers & Bruce Springsteen – One Headlight
An evening pause: Performed live 1997.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
The Carpenters – Rainy days and Mondays
An evening pause: I hope your Monday doesn’t get you down.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
David Allan Coe – Tennessee Whiskey
An evening pause: How one man found a better way to spend his weekend.
Hat tip Cotour.
Ilia Laporev & Estevao Gomes – Bach’s Air on a G String
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Warning – Enter Sandman
In 2017 I posted an evening pause of this band playing this same song, when Daniela (on guitar) was 14 years old, Paulina (on drums) was 12 years old, and Alejandra (on bass guitar) was 9 yrs old. This version is from their 2025 tour in Mexico (where they are from). To put it mildly, they are a bit older.
Hat tip Richard Reese.
Canadian Brass – Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in D minor
An evening pause: Written for the organ, but it works I think even better in brass.
Hat tip Willi Kusche.