misstmuse: Music Theory Fun!!! provides a truly groanworthy extended music pun.
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Jan 112006
Music
Stuff about music, either mine or stuff I am listening to.
My Neighborhood
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Dec 142005
I thought it was time for another piece of music. This song is off of After the Flood, which is available right over there to your right. The CDs are for sale via CafePress, but I might re-release it under a Creative Commons license, since it is after all 6 years old (and never sold much anyhow!). We’ll see.
That said, CDs do make lovely Christmas presents, if you know someone who’s into blues and folk rock. 🙂
Dec 122005
Bear with me, this is about more than just music; but you’ll have to suffer through my extended analogy first.
Once upon a time, musicians had exclusively local followings. They were relatively mobile, so they toured the countryside in their usual routes, spreading news from place to place and singing songs that were aimed at a very particular audience. They’d pick up tunes and lyrics and adapt them via the folk process, changing them for their local tastes, playing a decades-long game of telephone that changed the words around until sometimes they made no sense. Was the guy’s name Tom Dooley or Tom Dula? Did it matter?
Memorial (guitar piece)
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Dec 042005
I’ve always felt bad that the only version of “Memorial” that was on the site was the godawful MIDI. It was at the wrong tempo, it sounded terrible, and it lacked all the lilt that the piece ought to have.
But now I have this nifty new WordPress plugin that will embed this Flash music player in this post. So you can hear a quickie take on “Memorial” the way it’s supposed to sound. Sorta, since it’s not all that nice a recording.
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Chris Whitley, 1960-2005
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Nov 282005
I leave Locus Online to read the obit of an SF writer I had never heard of, and see Chris Whitley’s name at the bottom of the list of obituaries.
He was only 45, and he died of lung cancer, and somehow, it’s exactly the right bluesy ending to another great bluesman, albeit one that most people don’t remember, or only know because of “Big Sky Country” playing in the background of a Chevy commercial.
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