Posted in music on August 16, 2012| 7 Comments »
Take that, toaddog trolls!
I hope you losers know that you’re getting me more hits now than I’ve had in months.
Thanks a bunch!
Watch that blood pressure!
Posted in music, tagged Levon Helm, The Band on April 19, 2012| 1 Comment »
RIP, Levon Helm.
This is probably the song for which he was best known:
The Band was three Canucks, and one guy fro Arkansas.
Levon was the fellow from Arkansas. I don’t think they have names like that in Canada.
Posted in music, tagged Van Morrison on April 3, 2012|
I believe this was performed in Dublin in 1979:
Posted in music on November 19, 2011|
This is the original version, but I prefer the various bluegrass covers.
It’s so much better in bluegrass that one would have thought it would have started out as a bluegrass song.
It didn’t.
Posted in music on August 14, 2011| 9 Comments »
Van Morrison + The Band = good
It’s from The Last Waltz concert, which was the last performance The Band did together. Martin Scorsese directed a documentary using the footage from this concert. There are tons of clips from this documentary on Youtube.
Today, we would be singing about the Roma or Romani in their caravans, but I think that Van Morrison actually wrote this song about Irish Tinkers or Travellers, which are sometimes called Gypsies. They aren’t Roma. They are nomadic ethnic Irish people. They just happen to live like the Roma.
Posted in music on June 29, 2011|
Posted in Absolute Piffle, dog breeds, music, working dogs, tagged Australian kelpie, Bob the Kelpie, kelpie, working kelpie on January 10, 2011| 1 Comment »
Kelpie song:
Posted in music on January 10, 2011| 1 Comment »
Remember, I don’t listen to much music that is newer than about 1980.
Don’t read too much into it. It’s just a good song.
Posted in music on January 7, 2011|
Another good one from Dick Gaughan
Posted in music, tagged Altai, Khakassia, khoomei, München, Mongolia, Munich, throat singing, Tuvan on December 30, 2010| 2 Comments »
Amazing performance. I don’t know if these performers are Tuvan, Mongolian, from the Altai or Khakassia. If someone knows, please enlighten me.
BTW, did you see the golden retriever walk by?
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