Dave Mason – Sad And Deep As You
An evening pause: Hat tip to Danae.
Tag: music
JJ Cale & Eric Clapton – After Midnight & Call me the Breeze
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
An evening pause: I love songs that tell great stories. This is a classic.
Note: As always, I am always looking for evening pauses and am very open to suggestions. If you want to suggest something, comment here, though please don’t post the actual suggestion. I will email you direct so you can forward it to me.
Sierra Hull – Someone Like You
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Abraham Lincoln – a tribute on his birthday
An evening pause: As I have done before, on Lincoln’s birthday it behooves us to remember him.
We should also remind ourselves, especially in this time of increasing anger, bigotry, and violence, of these words from his second inaugural address, spoken in the final days of a violent war that had pitted brother against brother in order to set other men free:
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale
An evening pause: Performed live, 2006, with the Danish National Concert Orchestra.
Hat tip Danae.
Emmylou Harris – Pancho & Lefty
A evening pause: Performed live, 1977.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Eleanor Powell – Hula
An evening pause: From Honolulu (1939). What I like about this is that everyone involved has no worries about offending anyone. They are free to take the native cultural music of Hawaii and embellish it as the whim takes them. They were free (to repeat that forgotten word) to be as creative as they like. The result is a pretty hot dance number.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gingold – I Remember It Well
An evening pause: Somehow this seems right for my 62nd birthday. From the 1958 classic movie Gigi.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Browns – Little Jimmy Brown
An evening pause: Anyone who has ever spent any time in the backwoods of the eastern United States will recognize the culture and social framework from which this song springs.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Hayley Westenra – Scarborough Fair
An evening pause: Hat tip Tim Vogel.
Itzhak Perlman & Janet Guggenheim – Two pieces
An evening pause: Who says classical music doesn’t rock?
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Madre Luna – Aelfheim
An evening pause: Some Viking pagan music, as a change.
The Seekers – I’ll Never Find Another You
An evening pause: For Diane on our anniversary.
Hat tip Danae. Performed live, 1993 in Melbourne.
Isn’t it Romantic?
An evening pause: From the 1932 film Love Me Tonight, starring Maurice Chevalier. Stay with it, because it gets quite entertaining. And don’t you want to know what happens next?
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Nanci Griffith – Love at the Five and Dime
An evening pause; Hat tip Tom Biggar, who made me realize that I had never previously posted any Nanci Griffith on BtB. Shameful!
Fourplay – Bali Run
An evening pause: Performed live at the 2008 Tokyo Jazz Fesitival. Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Karine Polwart – Follow the Heron home
An evening pause: Performed live 2009.
Hat tip Danae.
John Jorgenson – Red On Red
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Joe Cocker – The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress
An evening pause: In honor of Joe Cocker’s passing last month. No visuals, but the performance from his 1974 album “I can stand a little rain” is sterling.