http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcVcwwo8QFE Can’t sleep, but finding great stuff while in the throes of insomnia is an acceptable tradeoff. This is Jeanne Moreau singing a twee little ditty from Jules et Jim.
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Sophie Madeleine
http://sophiemadeleine.bandcamp.com/ My StumblePals always know what I’ll like. Thanks, Frannyy.
02 The Tallest Man on Earth | The Gardener
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5DyCIdYfpA A lovely video for a lovely song. Sent to me, fittingly, by a tall gardener.
The Hillbilly Gypsies – “Devils Dream”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX1joQgf6Tg Man, say what you will about YouTube, but I’ve spent the past hour looking for “obscure” 17th century folk tunes, and I’ve found every one. This rendition of The Devil’s Dream is particularly jiggy, in the 17th century sense of the word…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY “The man and the hour had met.” In this case, though, it was the woman and the song: A Scottish spinster – who looks not unlike my grandmother and comports herself like a Glasgow keelie – sashayed onstage at Britain’s Got Talent, and proved that it certainly did. I’ve watched this five times and […]
Four Hands Guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4BYMvVvMg0 True talent is a compound: Without a love of what you do, there is no joy in the expression. These two guitarists have both talent and joy, and are an absolute pleasure to watch.
The Declaimers : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/05/16/050516crmu_music Typically excellent review by the New Yorker about a typically excellent “band”, the Mountain Goats (which is really just one guy, John Darnielle). The Sunset Tree is one of the few albums I’ve heard in the last 10 years that is a full album – absolutely worth getting every track. Darnielle’s songs are usually […]
Music That Makes You Dumb?
http://beatcrave.com/2009-03-03/music-that-makes-you-dumb/ SAT scores as related to the listeners’ favourite musicians. See that gap between Sufjan and Beethoven? That’s where The Lucksmiths go.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090216/en_nm/us_simon_2 Huge music fan that I am, I go to surprisingly few concerts. This one, though, makes me wish I’d had tickets: Paul Simon in concert would be a treat. Paul Simon singing some of his less-played (but some of my favourite) songs is icing on the cake. Paul Simon ending the evening with some […]