Corporations are Human | Tom Neilson | Oasis Acoustic, Volume XI, #11
Hot Frogs on the Loose Intro | Fred Small | Everything Possible
Hot Frogs on the Loose | Fred Small | Everything Possible
Bullies | David Rovics | Har, Har, Har - Songs about Pirates, Penguins, and Punk Rock Babies
Together | David Rovics | Har, Har, Har - Songs about Pirates, Penguins, and Punk Rock Babies
Step by Step | The Last Internationale | Oasis Acoustic, Volume XI, #12
Walkin’ in the Wilderness | Kim and Reggie Harris | Rock of Ages
The Clock Ticks On | Blackmore's Night | Stand and Deliver - A Medieval Music Compilation
Forever and Ever | Professor Louie and the Crowmatix | Whispering Pines
Iain Ghlinn' Cuaich | Battlefield Band | Line-Up
I Would | Ruth Hill | The River Beneath Me
Pastures of Plenty | The Gawler Sisters | Oasis Acoustic, Volume XI, #6
Soon It’s Gonna Rain| The Serendipity Singers | Serendipity/The Many Sides Of
Jimmy-O | The Serendipity Singers | Serendipity/The Many Sides Of
Butterflies | Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion | Bright Examples
Beautiful Monday | Spottiswoode & His Enemies | Wild Goosechase Expedition
Nice to Be Here | Sam Bush | Moody Bluegrass TWO…Much Love
Have a Good Time | Smithfield Fair | Every New Day
Walk Tonight | Hal Walker with Alice Moss | Oasis Acoustic, Volume XI, #6
The Train of Change | Doug MacLeod | Brand New Eyes
Untitled | Mulebone | Bluesville Sessions
People who will be playing in the area:
Old Man Dancing | David Jacobs-Strain | Stuck on the Way Back
Alash | Alash Ensemble | Alash
North Country Waltz | John Kirk and Trish Miller | Quicksteppin’
Mairi’s Wedding / The Flower of Edinborough | Seamus Kennedy | A Smile and A Tear
Something Fine | Jackson Browne | Solo Acoustic vol. 2
Love is Strange / Stay | Jackson Brown and David Lindley | Love is Strange
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Best albums, June 2011
Of the albums that arrived at WRPI in June, 2011, my favorite was To the West by Coty Hogue. She has a strong voice, but I didn't like it that most of the songs were sad.
I was happy to receive Each Other's Story by Atwater-Donnelly, because I really like their previous album, The Weaver's Bonny. However, it turns out that I did not like this one as much as I liked The Weaver's Bonny. Each Other's Story is an album of original songs. For the most part, the songs alternate between those written and sung by Aubrey Atwater and those written and sung by Elwood Donnelly. The album ends with a bonus track, which sounds very different from the rest of the songs on the album. It is a 1966 recording of a song by a band called The Lonely Things, featuring Elwood Donnelly on lead vocal.
I really enjoyed the song "Love is Made of Work," by Lost Pines, on their album Sweet Honey. This song is about a relationship based on farming together side by side.
I was happy to receive Each Other's Story by Atwater-Donnelly, because I really like their previous album, The Weaver's Bonny. However, it turns out that I did not like this one as much as I liked The Weaver's Bonny. Each Other's Story is an album of original songs. For the most part, the songs alternate between those written and sung by Aubrey Atwater and those written and sung by Elwood Donnelly. The album ends with a bonus track, which sounds very different from the rest of the songs on the album. It is a 1966 recording of a song by a band called The Lonely Things, featuring Elwood Donnelly on lead vocal.
I really enjoyed the song "Love is Made of Work," by Lost Pines, on their album Sweet Honey. This song is about a relationship based on farming together side by side.
At the farmer's market today
It was an exciting day at the farmer's market today because there were two good musical performers.
First I listened to the Hill Hollow Band. Or at least, some subset thereof. Their style is generally country/bluegrass/traditional folk.
Then, down on the other end of the farmer's market, I listened to Thaddues Gaffer Venar.
It was interesting to note that they had different styles of interacting (or not) with the audience. The Hillow Hollow Band looked at us and smiled at us, and seemed to really enjoy it when people were visibly enjoying the music by dancing. They said "thank you" whenever someone put money in their guitar case, even if it was in the middle of a song. But when it came to deciding what song to play next, then conferred amongst themselves. Gaffer on the other hand, said, "What mood?" and then went on to explain, "I don't do much from that last 100 years. If I ask people what song they want to hear, they say Freebird, but if I ask them what mood, they never say Freebird." He also expanded on the question by saying, "What mood can I help you manifest?"
When one person answered his question with "excited," he said he would try to think of what would be exciting to other people, because what was exciting to him might not be exciting to others. After he decided what to play, he said, "These were the top four dance hits in London in 1450. That's exciting to me."
Before each song, he would talk about it a bit, explaining about its history and meaning.
Even though he said he doesn't do much music from the last 100 years, he did two from that time period that I really enjoyed: "What a Wonderful World," and "Dream a Little Dream of Me." Often, when someone covers a song made famous by someone else, I tend to think their rendition is not as strong as the version I am accustomed to hearing. But that was not the case for these songs. The famous version of "What a Wonderful World," has never really appealed to me that much, but it became a beautiful song when Gaffer did it.
First I listened to the Hill Hollow Band. Or at least, some subset thereof. Their style is generally country/bluegrass/traditional folk.
Then, down on the other end of the farmer's market, I listened to Thaddues Gaffer Venar.
It was interesting to note that they had different styles of interacting (or not) with the audience. The Hillow Hollow Band looked at us and smiled at us, and seemed to really enjoy it when people were visibly enjoying the music by dancing. They said "thank you" whenever someone put money in their guitar case, even if it was in the middle of a song. But when it came to deciding what song to play next, then conferred amongst themselves. Gaffer on the other hand, said, "What mood?" and then went on to explain, "I don't do much from that last 100 years. If I ask people what song they want to hear, they say Freebird, but if I ask them what mood, they never say Freebird." He also expanded on the question by saying, "What mood can I help you manifest?"
When one person answered his question with "excited," he said he would try to think of what would be exciting to other people, because what was exciting to him might not be exciting to others. After he decided what to play, he said, "These were the top four dance hits in London in 1450. That's exciting to me."
Before each song, he would talk about it a bit, explaining about its history and meaning.
Even though he said he doesn't do much music from the last 100 years, he did two from that time period that I really enjoyed: "What a Wonderful World," and "Dream a Little Dream of Me." Often, when someone covers a song made famous by someone else, I tend to think their rendition is not as strong as the version I am accustomed to hearing. But that was not the case for these songs. The famous version of "What a Wonderful World," has never really appealed to me that much, but it became a beautiful song when Gaffer did it.
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