Billy Gibbons – La Grange
An evening pause: The ZZ top song, performed live from Daryl’s House. Has a really interesting short interview with Gibbons near the end talking about guitar strings..
Hat tip Cotour.
Tag: music
The Ides Of March – Vehicle
Forty Fingers – Bohemian Rhapsody
An evening pause: This is really badly filmed, with the camera constantly moving in a very distracting way, never stopping to actually let you watch them play. Very annoying.
However, the music is still magnificent, and the guitar arrangement is brilliant. Turn it on and listen as you do something else. You’ll enjoy it more.
Hat tip John Jossy.
Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely
An evening pause: How many other well-known singers can you identify backing him up?
Hat tip Cotour.
Melanie – Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma
An evening pause: Performed live, 1971. Nice song and performance, but I often wonder why the 60s generation so often seems so unhappy. We were the most blessed generation ever born on Earth, with more wealth and prosperity ever seen by anyone ever.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Peter Bence – Africa Piano Symphony
West Point Band and Glee Club – Mansions of the Lord
A evening pause: For Memorial Day. 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.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Dani Wilde – Deeper than Black
LaLa Brooks – Then He Kissed Me & Da Doo Ron Ron
Luca Stricagnoli – Sweet Child O’ Mine
Peaches & Herb – Reunited
Eric Clapton – Layla
Rose Royce – Love don’t live here anymore
Tony Bennett – Fly Me to the Moon
Tommy James & the Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion
Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden
Taiwan timelapse
The Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See
April Yang – Tank Drum music
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
An evening pause: Performed live on the Johnny Cash television show, c1969.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Wartime Radio Revue – Bei Mir Bist Du Shein
An evening pause: A modern rendition of the classic Andrews Sisters wartime hit.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Ashley Campbell – Remembering
An evening pause: On Glen Campbell’s birthday, I think it appropriate to post Ashley Campbell singing a song written for her father in his declining years.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Claire Crosby – Can’t Help Falling In Love
An evening pause: A wonderful cover of one of Elvis Presley’s most beautiful songs. From the comments: “Elvis Presley looking down from heaven with tears in his eyes and his hand on his heart.”
Hat tip Tom Biggar, who wrote, “This is why we need to fight for our freedom – for them.”
I personally pray that she will be free, and that we will have the guts to make sure that happens.
The Knack – My Sharona
Pat Metheny – So May It Secretly Begin
An evening pause: Hat tip Rex Ridenoure of Ecliptic Enterprises.
Katica Illényi – Once Upon a Time in the West
An evening pause: Music by Ennio Morricone, played on the theremin with the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Eagles – New Kid in Town
Atom – The Great Gig in the Sky
Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite 2, movements 3-4
An evening pause: The first two movements are wonderful too, so if you want, start this from the beginning. I begin it at movement three only because that movement is to me one of the most powerful pieces of music I have ever heard. The mix of low and high notes I think creates vibrations that touch the soul. And the melody ain’t bad either.
Sean Altman – They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat
An evening pause: To put it mildly, there is practically nothing in this song that is correct about Passover, except the title and the humorous indomitable spirit of the Jewish people.
For tonight, the first Passover Sedar.