Angel City Chorale – Africa
An evening pause: I posted a different and great performance back in 2014. This performance is I think even better.
Hat tip Doug “Space” Plata.
Tag: music
Bee Gees – Too much heaven
Theresa Andersson – Birds fly away
An evening pause: With some creativity, one can do so much with modern technology.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Dave Koz & Keiko Matsui – Beneath the Moonlit Sky
Bobby Goldsboro – Honey
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – She’ll Change
Jonny Lang – Rack ’em up
The Strawbs – The Winter Long
Lesley Gore – You Don’t Own Me
Paweł Zadrożniak – The Floppotron 3.0
Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Wayfaring Stranger
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.
Alison Krauss & Union Station – The Lucky One
Linda Ronstadt – Tumbling Dice
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
Cheap Trick – Stop this Game
Mister Rogers – Garden of Your Mind
An evening pause: As a kid, I could never stomach Mister Rogers. The most I could ever watch him was about ten seconds before becoming totally bored. Thus, I was initially very doubtful about scheduling this video — until I watched it. It takes the things Rogers said and did and turns it into a really good rap video!
Hat tip Tom Wilson, aka t-dub.
Tracey Thorn – Why Does the Wind?
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
The Cure – Why Can’t I Be You
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.
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
The Brothers Comatose & AJ Lee – Harvest Moon
Freedom Toons – Jordan Peterson sings Evanescence
An evening pause: I don’t know why, but to me this cartoon, which puts the fundamental words of Jordan Peterson to the tune of a rock song, with appropriate but light-hearted visuals, seems perfect for this year’s Memorial Day. From the song:
You cannot escape the suffering that comes with life
Carry all your pain
Become hero archetype
The past generations who sacrificed their lives for our civilization, whom we are supposed to honor and remember today, understood these words and didn’t need a teacher to explain them. Today’s generation, badly taught by my 60s generation, needs to hear them and think about them. If they do, the future will be bright indeed.
Hat tip Geoffrey Carman.