#Janie Orlean

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Here we go again ....

I started this blog almost exactly 10 years ago.  I had just arrived in New Orleans to embark on a four month adventure and research exercise.  At the time I was just entering the data collection stage of my PhD and my focus was on the Krewe of Muses, an all-female Mardi Gras krewe.

As a Canadian, Mardi Gras parades and parade culture were a pretty foreign concept and an even stranger subject for a doctoral thesis at a Canadian university.  What started as a feminist investigation became a much broader look at the important role that art and creativity play in community building, community identity, and friendship.  

When I returned home to Canada, I wrote a number of different versions of my dissertation but never defended.  The version that resonated with my research participants, did not resonate at all with my dissertation committee.  

‘Complicated” is one of the most common words writers use to describe New Orleans.  It is a city of contradictions, which all make total sense when you are here, but are almost impossible to explain and to understand if you have never visited or had to opportunity to wander the streets to explore and experience all the city, and its people have to offer.

Last night I heard author Janis F Kearney read from her recent book Only on Sundays at Octavia Books.  She spoke that as a writer, you need to “speak your truth”.  I think that is the reason I never defended my thesis or received my PhD.  I needed and wanted to speak the truth that the female members of the Krewe of Muses shared with me.  I wanted to capture the spirit, the sense of magic, and excitement they shared with me.  The experience of riding in Muses, glittering shoes, or watching the parade hoping to catch one of their coveted shoes or specialty throws did not fit neatly within a framework of critical race or feminist theory.  It was complicated!

So here I am 10 years later, temporarily returning to the Irish Channel, the neighbourhood I called home a decade ago and ready to revisit a project that was shelved but not forgotten.

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Books Read 2023

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations / Mira Jacob

A Grief Observed / C. S. Lewis

Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader / ed. Brian Carpenter & Tom Franklin

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure / Dorothy Allison

Weather: Air Masses, Clouds, Rainfall, Storms, Weather Maps, Climate (A Golden Nature Guide) / Paul E. Lehr, R. Will Burnett, Herbert S. Zim ; Harry McNaught (ill.)

Improbable Memories / Sarah Moon

Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery / Adam Clair

The Difference Between / Billy McCall

The Submissive (The Submissive #1) / Tara Sue Me

Last Night at the Casino [v. 1] / Billy McCall

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing / Marie Kondo ; Cathy Hirano (tr.)

Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov

My Heart Is a Chainsaw / Stephen Graham Jones

"Waltz of the Body Snatchers" / Alfred Bester, in Andromeda I: An original SF anthology / ed. Peter Weston

Blue Highways: A Journey Into America / William Least Heat-Moon

The Stars My Destination (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series) / Alfred Bester

Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov

Man and His Symbols / Carl G. Jung

Mysteries of the Unexplained / ed. Carroll C. Calkins

The Westing Game / Ellen Raskin

The Seven Ages / Louise Glück

The Wild Iris / Louise Glück

Vita Nova / Louise Glück

Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds: A 50-Year Treasury of Art and Design / Stephen Nicholas & Mike Tucker

Where's Waldo? (Where's Waldo #1) / Martin Handford

Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey (Where's Waldo #3) / Martin Handford

Doctor Who 50 Years #3: The Doctors / ed. Marcus Hearn

Rabbit, Run / John Updike

Mother Night / Kurt Vonnegut

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) / Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, in collaboration with The Policy Standards Office of the Library of Congress

"Descriptive Bibliography" / Terry Belanger, in Book Collecting: A Modern Guide / ed. Jean Peters

The Essential Doctor Who #2: The TARDIS / ed. Marcus Hearn

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited / Vladimir Nabokov

Chicago: City on the Make / Nelson Algren

Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 / Gilles Néret

American Gods: A Novel / Neil Gaiman

Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968: Art as Anti-Art / Janis Mink

The Empathy Exams: Essays / Leslie Jamison

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families / James Agee & Walker Evans

Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction / ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg

Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project / W. Eugene Smith ; ed. Sam Stephenson

Twilight / Gregory Crewdson ; Rick Moody

Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World / N.E. Thing Enterprises

Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams / Steve Horton & Michael Allred ; Laura Allred (ill.)

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path / Jack Kornfield

The Gin Closet: A Novel / Leslie Jamison

The New Kid on the Block / Jack Prelutsky ; James Stevenson (ill.)

A Book of Common Prayer / Joan Didion

Mariette in Ecstasy / Ron Hansen

Camp Damascus / Chuck Tingle

The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak (Public History in Historical Perspective) / Tammy S. Gordon

Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas / Rebecca Solnit & Rebecca Snedeker

Other Voices, Other Rooms / Truman Capote

Fabulous New Orleans / Lyle Saxon ; E.H. Suydam (ill.)

Weird Pennsylvania: Your Travel Guide to Pennsylvania's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets / Matt Lake

Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence (Griffin & Sabine #1) / Nick Bantock

Sabine's Notebook: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues (Griffin & Sabine #2) / Nick Bantock

The Golden Mean: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes (Griffin & Sabine #3) / Nick Bantock

Breath, Eyes, Memory / Edwidge Danticat

Last Night at the Casino, v. 2 / Billy McCall

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions / Randall Munroe

Collection-Level Cataloging: Bound-with Books (Third Millennium Cataloging) / Jain Fletcher

Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) / Barbara Johnstone

My Misspent Youth: Essays / Meghan Daum

Slender Intuition: Essays on Artist's Block / Brian Hitselberger

The Mister / E L James

Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place / Scott McClanahan

The Transcriptionist: A Novel / Amy Rowland

Explanations/Opinions below the cut:

Ok so I have several reading lists/stacks that I rotate through: my to-read spreadsheet (which has almost 300 titles listed in chronological order by date added, with the oldest being from 8/22/2014), my to-read bookcase/nightstand (which holds ~50 books I’ve acquired over the past few years but haven’t yet read), a stack of oversized unreads that don’t fit on the nightstand shelves (this gets its own list bc I need to read them and find a permanent home for them before the stack gets too tall), and “interruptions” (books that override the list order bc I didn’t want to wait to read them, for whatever reason).

Maybe it’s weird that I’m so attached to reading things “in order”? Idk. I’ve always been like this. It’s only a mild compulsion – obviously, I am perfectly capable of ignoring what’s supposed to be next on the list, in favor of reading something that catches my interest more strongly in the moment, but in general, I like to read things either in the order I added them to the list, or the order I personally acquired a physical copy (if I went by the list only, I’d be drowning in unread books [yay, college town thrift stores], so I gotta stay on top of that pile pretty regularly). So that is why I am often reading things that I first became aware of/added to my list nearly 10 years ago. Sometimes this practice results in feelings like, “Dang, I wish I would’ve actually read this 10 years ago,” but also sometimes, “WOW, I’m so glad I’m reading this RIGHT NOW, as opposed to 10 years ago when I first heard about it!”

I think my favorites this year were Mariette in Ecstasy; Other Voices, Other Rooms; Crapalachia; and Speak, Memory.

Mild disappointments were the essay collections by Leslie Jamison and Meghan Daum, two authors I’m pretty sure I discovered via popular and relateable quotes reblogged on tumblr ca. 2014, but the collections taken as a whole just had too many moments of cringe – casual classism, arrogant self-absorption, and other annoying and unrelateable qualities typical of privileged 20-something writers (this tone definitely appealed to me when I was a naïve and melodramatic snotty 20-something, so there’s that).

As a kind of memorial, Rachael and I read David’s three favorite books: The Stars My Destination, Mother Night, and American Gods. In all the time I knew him, including all the times we used to sit on the porch together, reading quietly while he drank whiskey, I never thought to ask him his favorites. I kept looking for pieces of him in the stories, wondering what lines stood out, what made a book memorable, what did it say about him that these were his favorites.

Being an elder Millennial, I’m in the stage of nostalgically re-acquiring important artifacts from my childhood, so that’s why there are some children’s books on my list. Where’s Waldo? was one of the most coveted books in my grade-school library! There was always a list of people waiting to check it out, but usually, whoever actually had the book that week would let the other kids gather around and look together.

My Heart Is a Chainsaw was a recommendation from my goth teenaged birthdaughter <3 which I probably read too much personal symbolism into but maybe not!

I thought John Updike was overrated, lol.

Favorite photography book: W. Eugene Smith’s Dream Street. His pictures made me so homesick, and it was wild because he took them from 1955-1957 but they still really, REALLY, to me, looked like the Pittsburgh of my ‘80s/’90s memories (bc Pittsburgh doesn’t change, and also the “idea” or “brand” of Pittsburgh in the ‘80s/’90s was ofc consciously referencing its industrial working-class past). He took over 10,000 photos but was never able to “finish” the project to his intense, obsessive standards of perfection (I KNOW THAT FEEL) and felt it failed to capture the multifaceted essence of the city. WELL, not in my opinion at least!

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Ji Ho is singing ‘Bobby McGee’ by Janis Joplin

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Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train When I's feelin' near as faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained And rode us all the way into New Orleans

I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana I's playin' soft while Bobby sang the blues Windshield wipers slappin' time, I's holdin' Bobby's hand in mine We sang every song that driver knew

From the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun There Bobby shared the secrets of my soul Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done Yeah, Bobby baby, kept me from the cold

One day up near Salinas, Lord, I let him slip away He's lookin' for that home, and I hope he finds it But, I'd trade all of my tomorrows, for one single yesterday To be holdin' Bobby's body next to mine

Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose Nothin', and that's all that Bobby left me, yeah But feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues That feelin' good was good enough for me, mmm-hmm Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee

Well, I wanna call him my lover, call him my man I said, I call him my lover, did the best I can, come on Hey now, Bobby now, hey now Bobby McGee, yeah Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, oh Hey-hey-hey, Bobby McGee, Lord

Oh my, creating this post made me cry. And Ji Ho was so amazing.

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Janis Joplin ~ Me And Bobby McGee 

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train I was feeling near as faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained And rode us all the way to New Orleans

I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues Windshield wipers slapping time, I was holding Bobby's hand in mine We sang every song that driver knew

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free, now now And feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues You know feeling good was good enough for me Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee

From the Kentucky coal mines to the California sun Hey, Bobby shared the secrets of my soul Through all kinds of weather, through everything that we done Hey Bobby baby kept me from the cold

One day up near Salinas, Lord, I let him slip away He's looking for that home and I hope he finds it But I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday To be holding Bobby's body next to mine

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose Nothing, and that's all that Bobby left me, yeah And feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues Hey, feeling good was good enough for me, hmm hmm Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee

La la la, la la la la, la la la, la la la la La la la la la Bobby McGee La la la la la, la la la la la La la la la la, Bobby McGee, la

La La la, la la la la la la La La la la la la la la la, hey now Bobby now Bobby McGee yeah Na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na na na Hey now Bobby now, Bobby McGee, yeah

Lord, I called him my lover, I called him my man I said called him my lover just the best I can and come on And and a Bobby oh, and a Bobby McGee yeah Lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo Hey hey hey Bobby McGee, lord La da la la la, la da la la la la la Hey hey hey, Bobby McGee yeah

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Don't Look Up - Movie Review

Don't Look Up - Two astronomers go on a massive publicity tour to warn people about an incoming comet that will destroy planet Earth

Hello and welcome to the Cinemagic Recaps. Today, we'll watch Don't Look Up, which will be released in 2021. In the movie "Startup," Kate Dibiasky, a doctoral candidate at MSU, uses the Subaru Telescope in Michigan to find a previously unidentified comet. Dr. Randall Mindy, her professor, gave the comet Kate's name, and the calculations that followed It will collide with the Earth in approximately six months, according to her lecturer Dr. Randall Mindy, and it is big enough to wipe out the entire globe.

The chief of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe, accompanies Kate and Mindy as they deliver their findings to the White House when NASA validates their findings. President Janie Orlean and her son, Chief of Staff Jason, do not respond to them.

Teddy implores Kate and Randall to inform the media about the situation, which they do on a morning talk program. Kate loses her cool and shouts about the threat when hosts Jack Bremmer and Brie Evantee approach the subject lightly. The general populace approves of Randall's appearance. Actual information regarding the comet's threat receives little public attention, and Jocelyn Calder, the director of NASA in Orlean and a major supporter to the city with little astronomical training, dismisses the warning.

When information about Orlean's sexual relationship with her Supreme Court nominee Sheriff Conlon comes to light, she uses the scandal to her advantage by verifying the threat and revealing a plan to use nuclear weapons to strike and redirect the comet.

The expedition is launched successfully, but Orlean abruptly cancels it after learning that the comet contains rare-earth metals worth trillions of dollars from Peter Isherwell, the millionaire CEO of BASH Cellular and another major supporter. The White House consents to employ BASH-proposed technologies in an unreviewed plan to fragment and recover the comet from the water in order to economically exploit it. Orlean appoints Randall as the National Science Advisor while ignoring Kate and Oglethorpe.

Kate makes an effort to organize public opposition to the plan but gives up when Orlean's government threatens her. Randall establishes himself as a leading voice in favor of the comet's business potential and starts dating Evantee.

There are three main schools of thought in the world: those who see the comet as a serious threat, those who reject alarmism and think that mining a destroyed comet will provide jobs, and those who reject the comet's very existence. When Kate returns to her Illinois home, her parents throw her out, and she starts dating Yule, a teenage shoplifter she meets at her retail job. Randall's wife leaves him behind and heads back to Michigan after confronting him about his affair.

Isherwell becomes enraged when Randall asks whether his technology will be able to disintegrate the comet. Finally snapping and ranting on live television, Randall finally loses it with the administration, questioning humanity's indifference and condemning Orlean for downplaying the imminent disaster.

As the comet begins to be seen from Earth, Randall makes up with Kate after being cut off from the administration. In an online protest, Randall, Kate, and Teddy urge people to "Just Look Up" and urge other nations to carry out comet interception operations. Orlean launches a "Don't Look Up" anti-campaign at the same time. Russia, India, and China prepare their own combined deflection mission after Orlean excludes them from the comet mining contract, only for their spacecraft to explode. Everyone realizes that humanity is doomed when BASH's attempt to shatter the comet also fails.

Inadvertently leaving Jason behind, Isherwell, Orlean, and other members of their elite group board a sleeper starship intended to locate an Earth-like planet. Randall declines Orlean's offer of two spaces aboard the ship in favor of one last evening with his friends and family. As predicted, the comet collides with Earth off the coast of Chile, resulting in a global catastrophe and an extinction-level event. Everyone in Randall's house perishes when the shockwave hits the building.

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Today's compilation:

Get Hot Or Go Home: Vintage RCA Rockabilly '56-'59 1988 Rockabilly / Rock & Roll

Look, folks, I am by no means a huge fan of rockabilly music, but this comp from Country Music Foundation Records—which was an extension of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville at some point—still has some real bangers on it. I appreciate rockabilly for serving as a vital step towards the eventual explosion of rock & roll, but, in hindsight, a lot of that 50s stuff can feel pretty monotonous, formulaic, linear, and threadbare, which most of this comp happens to be.

But when the singer gets raucous, the band gets noisy and fast, and the sound gets a bit thick, I am definitely 100% on board.

So, back in '88, Country Music Foundation Records got access to the RCA label's mid-to-late 50s rockabilly vaults, and they ended up fashioning a comp that was comprised of a bunch of musicians who probably aren't very well known outside of rockabilly circles, except for Roy Orbison. And on that comp, you can also find a good deal of songs that had previously gone either unreleased in the U.S. or unreleased entirely. And it's all of good sound quality too, so, regardless of how I personally feel about 50s rockabilly, if that's your jam, you're gonna wanna listen to this whole album, just to hear some of these rarities alone.

Now, this thing was originally released as a double-LP, and the first one is taken up by only two artists: New Orleans' Joe Clay and Atlanta's Ric Cartey. And for me, it's Clay who is inarguably the star of not just that first LP, but this whole entire release. I really don't find his first five songs to be very gripping, but the next four are the ones that bring that loud and brash, energetic rock & roll attitude that I'm after. And it comes as a bit of a surprise too, since he is so much more reserved in the previous five songs. But tunes like "Get on the Right Track" and "You Look That Good to Me" feature Clay gravelly shouting, with his backing band *really* turning it on for the solos. And before this album came out, the only places you could hear "You Look That Good to Me" were on a couple German releases. Go figure!

Unfortunately, though, the second LP ends up leaving a lot more to be desired than the first, but we still get a good one from "The Female Elvis," Janis Martin, who was one of just a few pioneering female rock & rollers back in her day. The full-on clanging clamor of the guitar solo on her "All Right Baby" is very satisfying, and then, later on, we're treated to Jimmy Dell's "Rainbow Doll," which chooses to eschew a guitar solo for a completely unexpected, greasy, sleazy, and bawdy sax one instead. Fantastic stuff there.

So, while I found the vast majority of this collection of 50s rockabilly from RCA to be pretty bland, the small slice of tunes that do happen to stand out are still *super* tasty 😋. And if you really love 50s rockabilly, then you'll probably end up enjoying this full 33-song set a whole lot more than I did.

Highlights:

Joe Clay - "Get on the Right Track" Joe Clay - "You Look That Good to Me" Joe Clay - "Cracker Jack" Joe Clay - "Did You Mean Jelly Bean (What You Said Cabbage Head)" Janis Martin - "All Right Baby" Jimmy Dell - "Rainbow Doll"

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Audition songs for Hermes in Hadestown?

For Hermes, I’d suggest I Don’t Need No Doctor by Ray Charles, Goin’ Back To New Orleans by Dr. John, Think (About It) by Lyn Collins, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Right Place Wrong Time by Dr. John, What Is Success by Allen Toussaint, Hit the Road Jack by Percy Mayfield, Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding, Try a Little Tenderness by Otis Redding, Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog, and Kozmic Blues by Janis Joplin.

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BYWATER CALL. Nuevo disco del huracán de rock & soul canadiense

BYWATER CALL

Hoy 9 de agosto se publica finalmente 'Shepherd', el esperado tercer largo del septeto canadiense Bywater Call, que el pasado mes de mayo anticiparan en una exitosa gira nacional. Un compendio de poderoso soul, rock sureño y sonidos añejos que hará las delicias de los fans de la Tedeschi Trucks Band o Bonnie Raitt.

Bywater Call son un poderoso colectivo de siete músicos de Toronto, Canada, formado en 2017, y dirigidos por la poderosa voz de Meghan Parnell y la guitarra de Dave Barnes. Un exuberante híbrido de rock, blues, funk de Nueva Orleans, R&B y southern soul. La feroz pero gentil garganta de Meghan suena como un cruce entre Susan Tedeschi y Bonnie Raitt, con el rugido aterciopelado de Janis Joplin, Joan Osbourne y Joe Cocker. A sus espaldas llevan ya varias largas giras por Europa, que les han catapultado a escenarios importantes como el del Moulin Blues Festival holandés y el crucero Keeping the Blues Alive de Joe Bonamassa, donde Meghan ha sido alabada como una de las mejores cantantes de blues y raíces de la actualidad. Sus dos discos, el debut homónimo de 2019, y su continuación de 2002, 'Remain', son poderosas demostraciones de ese estilo sureño que hace las delicias de los fans de The Band, los Black Crowes o Little Feat. Algo que se concreta en 'Shepherd', su nuevo álbum, 10 canciones que demuestran su exploración de nuevos caminos dentro del clasicismo del soul y el rock sin obviar un sonido contemporáneo. Auroeditado y autoproducido, 'Shepherd' es un paso de gigante que repasa las experiencias humanas, con sus altos y sus bajos; el amor, la pasión, el arrepentimiento, la paciencia, la reconciliación, la rabia, ya sea con sentidas baladas o arremetidas de guitarra en el terreno de raíces, sonando jovial, funk y exuberante. 'Colours', su nuevo single, una historia sobre el final agónico de una relación, se lanza acompañando al álbum como último vídeo del mismo.

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06/05/24 Mondo Radio Playlist

Here's the playlist for this week's edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds", featuring the San Francisco Sound and more. If you dig it, don't forget to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

Jefferson Airplane - 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds - The Roar Of Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane - Go To Her - The Roar Of Jefferson Airplane

Hot Tuna - Sea Child (Live) - Live At New Orleans House: Berkley, CA 09/69

Hot Tuna - Come Back Baby (Live) - Live At New Orleans House: Berkley, CA 09/69

Quicksilver Messenger Service - The Fool - Anthology

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Edward The Mad Shirt Grinder - Anthology

Danny Davis And The Nashville Brass - Country Disco (Live) - Live! In Vegas

Moby Grape - Omaha - Rock: The Train Kept A Rollin'

It's A Beautiful Day - Wasted Union Blues - It's A Beautiful Day

Big Brother And The Holding Company Feat. Janis Joplin - Combination Of The Two (Live) - Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968

Big Brother And The Holding Company Feat. Janis Joplin - I Need A Man To Love (Live) - Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968

Janis Joplin - Tell Mama (Live - 7.28.70) - The Pearl Sessions

Janis Joplin - Move Over - The Pearl Sessions

Grateful Dead - Casey Jones - Workingman's Dead

Country Joe McDonald - Blowing Down That Dusty Road - Dylan, Cash And The Nashville Cats: A New Music City

Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band - Workingman's Dead

Steve Miller Band - Living In The USA - The Best Of 1968-1973

The Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head - Groovies' Greatest Grooves

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues - Vincebus Eruptum

Steve Miller Band - My Dark Hour - The Best Of 1968-1973

Santana - Jingo (Live) - Live At The Fillmore '68

Santana - As The Years Go Passing By (Live) - Live At The Fillmore '68

Sly & The Family Stone - Underdog - A Whole New Thing

Ace Of Cups - Interlude: Transistor - Ace Of Cups

Sly & The Family Stone - Only One Way Out Of This Mess - A Whole New Thing

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A Breath of Fresh Air Feb 20

A Breath of Fresh Air With Sandy Kaye bombshellradio.com Tuesdays 1pm EST and Fridays 8pm EST Archival shows : bombshellradiopodcasts.com John Hall is a founding member of the band Orleans and one of the main instigators of the No Nukes and MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) movements. He’s been intimately involved in promoting social change and environmental advocacy, both as a private citizen and as an elected representative in Congress. John was studying piano at 5, playing French horn, guitar bass and drums by 12. He started playing in the clubs of Greenwich Village by 18 and at 21 wrote and directed music for a Broadway and Off-Broadway play. He then worked on numerous projects including Seals and Crofts’ album Down Home. He toured with Taj Mahal and when he came home, started the band that would become Orleans in 1972. Moving to Woodstock NY with his wife Johanna, the pair began writing together. They had major hits ‘Dance With Me’ and ‘Still The One’, songs that have garnered 9 million terrestrial airplays and hundreds of millions of streams. John has also co-written songs for Janis Joplin, Millie Jackson, Bonnie Raitt, Chaka Khan and Chet Atkins among others. He co-founded the group Musicians United for Safe Energy and helped organise the 1979 No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden. His song Power was its anthem, performed and recorded there by the Doobie Brothers with James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Carly Simon, Nicolette Larson, Phoebe Snow, and many more. That song was also sung by Peter Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger and others. John’s guitar playing was featured on albums by Browne, Raitt, Carly Simon, Little Feat and more. In the 90s the John Hall Band recorded two LPs: Search Party and All Of The Above, which contained the AOR and MTV staple Crazy (Keep On Fallin’). Environmental activism led John to serve on several boards. In 2006 he was elected to the US House of Representatives and also served on the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Returning to private life in 2011, John continued to perform and record with Orleans and as a solo artist. During the pandemic, he wrote and recorded songs for his latest CD “Reclaiming My Time.” Sandy Kaye sandy@abreathoffreshair.com.au Read the full article

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John Hall is a founding member of the band Orleans.

Orleans had major hits ‘Dance With Me’ and ‘Still The One’, songs that have garnered 9 million terrestrial airplays and hundreds of millions of streams.

John has also co-written songs for Janis Joplin, Millie Jackson, Bonnie Raitt, Chaka Khan and Chet Atkins among others.

His song Power was its anthem, performed and recorded there by the Doobie Brothers with James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Carly Simon, Nicolette Larson, Phoebe Snow, and many more. That song was also sung by Peter Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger and others.

John’s guitar playing was featured on albums by Browne, Raitt, Carly Simon, Little Feat and more.

During the pandemic, he wrote and recorded songs for his latest CD “Reclaiming My Time.”

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SEPTEMBER 15th NEW ARRIVALS!!

Lots of cool records from my big recent score hit the bins tonight for tomorrow's diggins'. Pictured highlights include a great original copy of Janis Joplin & Big Brother classic - Cheap Thrills, both volumes of Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers, a couple of great Billie Holiday LP's including Music For Torching, a rare original Dr John New Orleans Voodoo masterpiece - Babylon, an original copy of Here's Little Richard, a great copy of an Ike & Tina Turner LP River Deep Mountain High (produced by Phil Spector), and original copies of T-Rex - Electric Warrior, Kiss Alive and Getz/Gilberto. Lots more killer LP's to be discovered in tomorrow's hunt. So come and get 'em!

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Today’s compilation:

Storytellers: Singers & Songwriters 1987 Singer-Songwriter / Folk / Soft Rock / Folk-Rock / Country-Folk

Here's a brilliant release from Warner that sort of traces an evolution of soft, moving, intimate, and lyrically poetic music, with tunes from the 60s folk movement as well as the more commercially viable 70s singer-songwriter era that succeeded it. On Storytellers, you'll find chart-busting hits from the likes of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Maria Muldaur, and Gordon Lightfoot, along with signature songs and killer tunes by gifted musicians that either didn't chart very high or didn't chart at all. And what's particularly important about this specific release is that it actually marks the first time that a lot of these songs ever appear on compact disc! 😯

So, let’s start with the pair of tunes that very nearly brought me to tears: John Prine's "Sam Stone" and Phil Ochs' "When I'm Gone." Prine's offering is a poignant country-folk gem from his 1971 debut album that tells a tale about a war veteran who returns home with a Purple Heart and a drug addiction that winds up leading to a fatal overdose. Prine seems to purposely not say which war it was that Sam participated in, possibly as a way of pointing out just how many US conflicts his story could needlessly be applied to.

And folk music legend Phil Ochs' contribution comes off his deceptively titled 1966 album, Phil Ochs in Concert—much of which wasn't actually recorded live. "When I'm Gone" is a quiet anthem that implores its listener to continually fight for the things that are right and just in this world because life has a way of being both unpredictable and short. And tragically, Ochs' own words would end up serving as a self-fulfilling prophecy, as he would choose to take his own life about a decade later at the age of 35 😔. Awful.

Linda Ronstadt's "Love Has No Pride" is on here too. It was the lead single off of her first album for Asylum Records, 1973's Don't Cry Now, which preceded her landmark ascendancy into superstardom with Heart Like a Wheel. "Love Has No Pride" only made it to #51 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, but Ronstadt *really* flexes the true power and dynamism of her voice on it. It's included on her Greatest Hits album, but it definitely deserved more recognition upon its initial release.

And Judy Collins' "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" is simply terrific. She originally heard a demo recording of it by UK folk-rocker Sandy Denny and then made it into an epic, swelling, and tender bit of folk-rock of her own soon after. It was never featured as the A-side on a single, and instead served as the backer to "Both Sides, Now" in 1968, but as far as pure musicality goes, I think it might be the most impressive tune of this whole Storytellers bunch.

And lastly, here's an amazing fact: Janis Ian was only 14 years old when she completed "Society's Child," a song that would end up serving as her debut single. It tells the story of a relationship between a white girl and a black boy, which was a big taboo subject when this tune was on the airwaves in the mid-to-late 60s. Herself being white, Ian went to a predominantly black-attended school, so this song appears to reflect some of her own observations and experiences from time spent there. It went to #14 on the Hot 100, and was a big hit in a bunch of different cities, but there were still a number of stations who refused to play it, including, most notably, Chicago's WLS. For shame.

For the most part, this is a very important set of tunes here, and not just because a lot of them hadn't appeared on CD before, but because many of the songs themselves are both very good and have something to say that's worth hearing. Necessary listening for any 60s and 70s folk and singer-songwriter novice out there. And hats off to whoever was responsible for compiling it!

Highlights:

Joni Mitchell - "Help Me" James Taylor - "Fire and Rain" Arlo Guthrie - "City of New Orleans" Linda Ronstadt - "Love Has No Pride" Steve Goodman - "Banana Republics" John Prine - "Sam Stone" Judy Collins - "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" Janis Ian - "Society's Child" Jerry Jeff Walker - “Mr. Bojangles” Phil Ochs - "When I'm Gone"