#Chris Eldridge

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Mighty Poplar - “Chico River” (Live, 2023)

Mighty Poplar summoned the power of quietude to deliver a devastating performance of “Chico River” at the 2023 Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots festival.

Now out on professional video, the bluegrass supergroup’s rendering of Mapache’s number is astonishing in its finesse as mandolinist Andrew Marlin, guitarist Chris Eldridge and bassist Greg Garrison climb to the top of their ranges on the chorus:

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The mic into which they sing also serves as the band’s amp, to which fiddler Alex Hargreaves, then Marlin, then banjoist Noam Pikelny move closer so their respective, pre-chorus solos can be dispersed to the audience.

It ends with Marlin and Eldridge weaving a soft, delicate tapestry that flirts with silence. It leaves the audience hushed and the band smiling in quiet, hard-earned, self-satisfaction.

Grade card: Mighty Poplar - “Chico River” (Live, 2023) - A+

3/18/24

[jazzdailyblog]

Julian Lage: A Contemporary Virtuoso Redefining the Language of Jazz Guitar

Introduction: In the vast landscape of contemporary jazz, where innovation and tradition intersect, Julian Lage stands as a beacon of virtuosity and musical curiosity. Born thirty-six years ago today on December 25, 1987, in Santa Rosa, California, Lage has carved a unique niche for himself in the world of jazz guitar, captivating audiences with his astonishing technique, deep musicality, and a…

[lauraepartain]

A portrait of my pal Chris Eldridge | Oct 2021

[leadandblood]

Terror cast photos (from various social media)

I can't 100% match where most of these come from. But! First one is from Chris Corrigan, second from Richard Sutton and the last two are from Gordon Morris.

[rangersgirl73]

i love everything about this picture

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Julian Assange is a rapist

Cherno Biko is a rapist

Neil Gaiman is a rapist and child pornography defender

Jian Ghomeshi is a rapist

Johnny Depp is a rapist and wife beater

Eli Erlick is a rapist

Donald Trump is a rapist and child rapist

Bill Clinton is a rapist

Joseph Biden is a child molester

Bill Cosby is a rapist

Harvey Weinstein is a rapist

Meredith Stroud is a rapist

Dr. Luke is a rapist

Hugo Schwyzer is a rapist and attempted murderer

Marilyn Manson is a rapist and wife beater

Marion Zimmer Bradley is a child molester

Armie Hammer is a rapist

Kyle Payne is a rapist

Tourmaline Fialkowski is a rapist

Chris Chan is a rapist

Kevin Spacey is a child molester

Roman Polanksi is a child rapist

Louis CK is a sexual harasser

Aziz Ansari is a rapist

Eldridge Cleaver was a serial rapist

Tupac was a rapist

Hugh Hefner was a rapist

David Bowie was a child rapist

John Lennon was a wife beater

Your heroes, your favourite actors, singers, filmmakers, authors, comedians, politicians, activists, teachers, and journalists are rapists. I don't give a shit. You want to side with (mostly) men in power over their victims, then just fucking do that and say they get to do whatever they want to anyone they want. Because you're essentially saying that anyway when you pick apart the behaviour of their victims.

[downthetubes]

Artists Assembled! An amazing anniversary montage of classic British comic artists art

Artist Mike Perkins has kindly shared a smashing image featuring art by Ron Smith, Mike Western, Chris Weston and others

Back in 1994, comic artist Mike Perkins was just starting out on his illustrative career and was represented through Patrick Kelleher of Temple Rogers Artists’ Agency, aka Temple Art Agency. At the time, Pat was celebrating 40 years in the business and, as a surprise, fellow artist Jon Haward rounded up some of his artists to contribute to this illustration for Pat. Featured in this terrific…

[reasoningdaily]

The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered]

This FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD is from THE BLACK TRUEBRARY

The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered]

A collection of essays written by scholars and former Panthers incorporates participant-observer perspectives in an exploration of the party's organization, gender dynamics, and legacy

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Here is a searing, illuminating and unapologetic look at the Black Panther Party, whose 1966-1982 history is one of the most controversial and dynamic political dramas of our time.

Georgia State University African American studies professor Jones uses original writings from insiders, including former officials like former communication secretary Kathleen Neal Cleaver (who now teaches law in N.Y.C.), who writes about the Algerian exile she and her then-husband Eldridge Cleaver experienced during that era; and rank-and-filers like Steve D. McCutchen, whose Panther-era diary makes engrossing reading. The 18 chapters include original essays and memoirs by, and interviews with, former Panthers.

Contributors include scholars of Panther history like Stanford's Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, Nakhil Pal Singh of N.Y.U., Clarence Lusane of American University and Trayce Mathews, a Chicago-based political activist whose dissertation explores gender dynamics in the Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakland, Calif., by Bobby Seale and the late Huey P. Newton to promote armed self-defense of the black community from an allegedly brutal police force, the Panthers soon grew into a national force.

The Panthers, argues contributor Chris Booker, "embodied the highest aspirations of a generation of radical African American youth." These essays are mainly sympathetic to the Panthers' aims, and there lingers among some of them a bit of uncritical nostalgia. But contributors also critically investigate the party's complex attitude toward violence (police reprisals and inner-party conflict killed over two dozen Panthers from 1967 to 1969), inner-party gender relations, the consequences of the unstable membership mix of political activists and quasi-criminal types, and the group's romantic notions of social revolution.

From Library Journal

Revisiting the revolutionary reputation of the Black Panther Party (BPP) of the turbulent 1960s, political scientist Jones (African American studies, Georgia State Univ.) contributes a six-part, 18-chapter probe of the reality behind the rhetoric and the substance behind the much-maligned Panther image.

The anthology mixes interviews with analysis, reflections, and recollections. Former BPP members such as Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Regina Jennings, and Melvin E. Lewis and others delve into the contextual landscape of the BPP's founding in October 1966, recruitment of rank and file, organizational and gender dynamics, decline, and complex legacy.

This work provokes serious thought about how authority in government and media manipulate public perception of black protest. But even more, it unfolds dimensions of the BPP as a base of black nationalism and a bridge to intercommunalism, signaling a move beyond mere memoir to helpful scholarship on the BPP's integrity and interactions.

THIS BOOK IS PROVIDED FREE COURTESY OF THE BLACK TRUEBRARY here on Tumblr

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Mighty Poplar - “Grey Eagle” (Live)

“Content to only steal the show,” as his bandmates put it, fiddler Shad Cobb proves himself much more than a standin for Alex Hargreaves on Mighty Poplar’s live rendering of “Grey Eagle.”

Captured on professional video during the bluegrass supergroup’s appearance at the 2023 FreshGrass festival in Massachusetts, the clip may feature Cobb’s sawin’ prominently. But Noam Pikelny’s banjo pickin’, Avdrew Marlin’s mandolin fannin’ and Chris Eldridge’s guitar stylin’ are not inessential ingredients, as evidenced by the explosion of applause that follows each musician’s turn in the spotlight.

Grade card: Mighty Poplar - “Grey Eagle” (Live) - A+

11/22/23

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.31

Beer Birthdays

Johanna Heileman (1831)

Theo Flissebaalje (1949)

Michael J. Ferguson (1953)

Five Favorite Birthdays

James Coburn; actor (1928)

Van Morrison; Irish singer (1945)

Frank Robinson; Baltimore Orioles OF, manager (1935)

Glenn Tilbrook; English singer, songwriter (1957)

Gary Webb; journalist (1955)

Famous Birthdays

Richard Basehart; actor (1914)

Julie Brown; comedian, actor (1954)

Agnes Bulmer; English poet & author (1775)

Caligula; Roman emperor (12 B.C.E.)

Eldridge Cleaver; activist (1935)

Roger Dean; English illustrator, artist (1944)

Lowell Ganz; screenwriter (1948)

Richard Gere; actor (1949)

Debbie Gibson; pop singer (1970)

Arthur Godfrey; actor (1903)

Buddy Hackett; comedian, actor (1924)

Georg Jensen; Danish silversmith (1866)

György Károly; Hungarian poet and author (1953)

Foghorn Leghorn; cartoon rooster (1946)

Alan Jay Lerner; lyricist (1918)

Helen Levitt; photographer & cinematographer (1913)

Bernard Lovell; English astronomer (1913)

Fredric March; actor (1897)

Jean-Paul-Égide Martini; French composer (1741)

Maria Montessori; educator (1870)

Edwin Moses; olympic runner (1955)

Itzhak Perlman; violinist (1945)

Hugh David Politzer; physicist (1949)

Amilcare Ponchielli; classical composer (1834)

William Saroyan; writer (1908)

Montgomery "Scotty" Scott; Star Trek character (2222)

G.D. Spradlin; actor (1920)

Anthony Thistlethwaite; English saxophonist & bassist (1955)

Chris Tucker; actor (1972)

Bob Welch; singer & guitarist (1945)

Herbert Wise; Austrian-English director (1924)

Raymond Williams; Welsh author (1921)

[lauraepartain]

Another frame of Bluegrass Guitarist Extraordinaire Chris Eldridge! | October 2021 

[duncebento]

WHERE IS MY FOLLOWER WHOS UNCLE IS CHRIS ELDRIDGE i told him that ur my follower.

[houseofloveconcerts]

Kristin Andreassen & Chris Eldridge, Jefferson Hamer, Lucas Miller & Dressler Parsons. Wednesday, June 21st!

[scotianostra]

Brian Connolly, lead singer with glam rock band The Sweet was born on October 5th 1945 in Govanhill.

Usually my disclaimers about dates and birthplace are for more historical posts but sometimes they throw ones like this at me, so the dates are either 45 or 49, some sources say he was born in Govanhill others tell me 20 odd miles away in Hamilton.

His mother was a teenage waitress, Frances Connolly, who left him in a Glasgow hospital as an infant whilst he was possibly suffering from meningitis. The identity of his father was never made public he was in care until he was two, when he was fostered by Jim and Helen McManus of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire who already had three born-to children. Brian was given the name McManus which he used until he was 18, when he discovered that he was adopted and changed his surname to his mother´s, Connolly.

In a radio interview, Connolly reported that singing was a large part of growing up since there was no television, and that he was regularly called upon to sing for family and friends. Connolly has credited the Everly Brothers as being his earliest musical influence.

At the age of twelve the family moved to Harefield, Greater London, where he attended the local Secondary Modern school. In his mid-teens he joined the Merchant Navy.

On his discharge from the Merchant Navy in 1963 he returned to Harefield and played in a number of local bands, including Generation X, from mid-1965 until about October 1966. The group recorded four tracks but these were not commercially released. The lineup featured Connolly on vocals, Chris Eldridge and Lee Mordecai on guitars, Mark Conway (bass) and drummer Martin Lass. Connolly eventually replaced singer Ian Gillan (later of Deep Purple fame) in a band called Wainwright’s Gentlemen, which included drummer Mick Tucker. Tucker and Connolly left Wainwright’s Gentlemen in late 1967 and recruited guitarist Frank Torpey, and bassist Steve Priest, naming their new band The Sweetshop.

On the eve of releasing their debut single, Slow Motion, in July 1968, the band shortened their name to The Sweet. They recorded a further three unsuccessful singles; Andy Scott joined the line-up in late 1970, just before the release of their first hit single “Funny, Funny”

Their second single “Co Co” reached number 2 on the charts and they released the albums Gimmee Dat Ding, Sweet Fanny Adams and Desolation Boulevard followed.

The Sweet had 15 top 40 hits between 1971 and 1978, including the aptly named number one Blockbuster! As well as that The Sweet reached number one with various songs all over Europe, two number ones in Australia and a handful of hits in the U.S.

Connolly announced that he had left the group in 1979. He pursued a solo career to get into country music, released the album “Let’s Go”, which was only semi successful.

During January 1997 Connolly had another heart attack and he was hospitalised in Slough, he discharged himself after a week but was readmitted before the fortnight was up. This time there was little more that could be done. Connolly died late on the evening on 9 February 1997, from renal failure, liver failure and repeated heart attacks, attributed to his previous chronic alcoholism. Connolly was 51 years old.

A wee add on is  that numerous sources have asserted that he was a half-brother of the late Taggart actor Mark McManus I must admit I have said this in previous posts, but I did further research and this is not the case. The confusion lies in the fact that his foster brother was named Mark, but there was also a cousin named Mark McManus - who grew up to become the actor who played Taggart in the Glasgow television police detective series.

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I keep forgetting that Sailor Eldritch exists. And Chris often goes by his surname Eldridge when it comes to business.

It's gotta be so confusing having two sailors with similar-sounding names both running ferries out of Canalave. Locals probably know the difference because they're wildly different people, but tourists and newcomers get the two mixed up. Would work out well though, since the two would basically be promoting one another.