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Ibrahima Faye ?Gudd Fann Live Long?
2008-01-29 00:45:00
Sometimes all I want to do is sit and think about where I’m going and where I’ve been. Sometimes I need to close to close my eyes and be transported to another place. That’s what Ibrahima Faye’s Gudd Fann Live Long does for me. Faye is heavily influenced by his Senegalese roots. He interweaves traditional and ... SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ibrahima Faye “Gudd Fann Live Long”", url: "http://stopandhearthemusic.com/2008/01/2 8/ibrahima-faye-gudd-fann-live-long/" });
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The Half of It ?The Half of It?
2008-01-25 19:08:00
The Half of It’s newly released self-titled CD has recently found its way into my CD collection. This Philadelphia based quartet’s brand of jazz fusion makes you sit up and take notice. I’m a writer and I usually listen to music while writing. Some music is good for that. This CD isn’t and that’s a good thing. When ...
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Talking Heads ?(Nothing But) Flowers?
2008-01-23 20:30:00
I bought the Talking Head’s album  Naked at a used record store. It was an LP so I could only listen to it at home on my nearly broken record player. The record player had gotten to the point where I had to tape a penny to the arm to keep the needle  from ...
More About: Flowers , Pop , Rock , Heads

Earth Wind & Fire ?All ?n All?
2008-01-21 18:24:00
In my sixties style orange mini-dress and large plastic beaded necklace, I was ready for the party. I was never very social but I went through a stage of wanting to go to every party no matter how painful I knew it would be. Parties are usually painful for the socially awkward like me. Getting ready for the party ...
More About: Funk , Earth , Wind , Soul , Fire

Gary Jules ?Mad World?
2008-01-18 16:25:00
I wasn’t going to post anything today but I saw this video and wanted to put it up. It’s better to do it now than wait until next week and forget.
More About: Pop , World , Rock , Gary , Gary Jules

Music Review Carnival 2
2008-01-16 16:44:00
old-wizard.com presents Old-Wizard.com / Music / Top 10 Bands of the Nineties posted at Old-Wizard.com. Amanda presents CD by John Fogerty - Revival posted at Pajama Mommy » Mommy Blogger Community. GrrlScientist presents Songs About Birds — Can You Name Some? posted at Living the Scientific Life. Mission Rock Star presents Brightwood?s Song, ?Sit Still? (lyrics) posted at ...
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Leonard Cohen ?Hallelujah? and ?Chelsea Hotel?
2008-01-16 05:34:00
I don’t know when or where this was recorded but it’s great. I love random television appearances like this. I don’t know what I love about this most–the lip syncing, the set, the people swaying in the archways, the smoke machine, or the leaves all over the floor. The people pretending to sing the hallelujah part are ...
More About: Chelsea , Hotel , Rock , Folk , Hallelujah

Tom Waits ?Innocent When You Dream (78)?
2008-01-14 21:50:00
You don’t normally think of a cemetary as a place to hang out, but Hope Cemetary was different. It was included in the area tourist brochures as a place to see. I used to go there sometimes alone, but mostly with friends. We’d wander amoung the tombstones–talk and take pictures. Snow crunched beneath our winter boots. That ...
More About: Rock , Innocent , Dream , Tom Waits

Kirk Adams ?Love a Lie?
2008-01-09 18:12:00
This is a video of a very serious man with a very serious face singing a very serious song. I think it’s seriously good.
More About: Love , Rock , Adams , Kirk

John Coltrane ?Dear Old Stockholm?
2008-01-08 02:46:00
I was sixteen when I moved out of my parents house. I started attending school at a small liberal arts college halfway across the country. I remember the day they dropped me off. They helped me unpack. My roommate had already moved in but was nowhere to be seen. She’d already covered the walls with ...
More About: Jazz , Stockholm , John , John Coltrane , Coltrane

Emiliana Torrini ?Sunny Road?
2008-01-02 22:05:00
This is a song that was on the Putumayo Presents: Women of the World - Acoustic CD that I mentioned in the previous post. I’d never heard of Emiliana Torrini before hearing this CD. Her voice is quite interesting. Sunny Road is on Fisherman’s Woman, which was released in 2005.
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Sandrine Kiberlain ?M?envoyer des Fleurs?
2007-12-31 20:28:00
I’ve been learning French recently and  I’m terrible. French pronunciation is impossible for me. I don’t know why it can’t be easier like Korean or Chinese. I bought one of those Berlitz language courses about a year ago. I tried to do it for a month. Then I gave up. A few months ago my husband decided ...
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Oscar Peterson ?Night Train?
2007-12-26 20:58:00
My father is a jazz pianist and he loves Oscar Peterson. I remember him listening to Oscar Peterson records when I was little. He?d tap his feet and hum along. ?Oscar can really swing,? he?d say. ?That cat can swing.?   I had an Oscar Peterson cassette. The album was called Night Train . I don?t ...
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John Lennon ?Happy Christmas (War Is Over)?
2007-12-25 02:01:00
I’ve never liked Christmas music. I guess I’m lacking the Christmas spirit I hear so much about at this time of year. Being the John Lennon fan that I am, this is the only Christmas song I can tolerate.
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The First Music Review Carnival
2007-12-20 05:12:00
Jamie Eilerman presents Album Review : Circa Survive “On letting Go” posted at rockademic. Amanda presents Review: John Hinson CD posted at Pajama Mommy » Mommy Blogger Community. Ian EBH presents Coliseum-No Salvation LP (Relapse, Auxiliary) posted at Going Through the Motions. Maria Fernandez presents Learn a foreign language - blog: Mecano - Hijo de la ...
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The Stop the Violence Movement ?Self Destruction?
2007-12-19 20:58:00
In college, I had a friend named Matt who was interesting to say the least. He didn?t have a car so I used to drive him around?to the store to buy cigarettes and to various yard sales. He loved yard sales. Once we got lost on some dirt roads in the mountains because we were ...
More About: Hip Hop , Destruction , Violence , Stop

The Charlie Hunter Quintet ?Right Now Move?
2007-12-17 22:58:00
For a long time whenever I got into my husband?s car Right Now Move was playing. I like this CD so it made riding in my husband?s car more enjoyable. Normally I don?t like his car. I especially don?t like driving his car. I?m not saying that his car is any worse than my car. ...
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Janis Ian ?At Seventeen?
2007-12-12 22:16:00
Most people that I know claim to have had a terrible high school experience. I’ve always thought that was funny, because when I was in high school it seemed like everyone else was having a great time. This is a good seventies song about high school.
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Soul Cycle ?Urban Organics?
2007-12-10 20:17:00
I recently got a new CD and was playing it while writing one of my blogs. “What’s this?” my husband asked when he came into the room. “This is good. What is it?” he asked again. I didn’t want to tell him. It is rare that I find music that he can’t identify, but thinks is good. After ...
More About: Jazz , Funk , Cycle , Urban , Soul

Heavy Tuba & Jon Sass ?Sagenhaft?
2007-12-05 22:05:00
I don’t know what kind of person wakes up one day and decides he’s going to learn to play the tuba. Most people are probably forced into it as children. When I was in elementary school, I played the clarinet. I complained bitterly on the days I had to take my clarinet to school for ...
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