Tag: music
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Entropy Circus, strawberries and popsicles
Earlier was having a very nice time sitting here eating strawberries and listening to Entropy Circus’ The Goats & The Peacock from Open Source Audio. I came across it through doing a search for Caruso. And there was Entropy Circus, because it incorporates Caruso in one of the tracks. I started listening and pretty much…
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Idyllopus scans "Roy Smeck’s Modern Method for Hawaiian Guitar"
Idyllopus scans “Roy Smeck’s Modern Method for Hawaiian Guitar”. Why? Because I can and I’ve a long-abiding love for Hawaiian guitar back to when I was about eight years of age at least, and god only knows where I got the door through which the interested entered, but the interest entered, as best I can…
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Lotsa Poppa
I noted yesterday that Marty played for years with singer Lotsa Poppa. Mostly at Blind Willie’s but also at such clubs as the venerated Royal Peacock, and the Libra Ballroom, on the same bill as people lilke Bobby “Blue” Bland. I used to have the greatest rainbow-colored posters of those dates but one day had…
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Wild Women Sing the Blues at the Atlanta History Center
Marty Kearns is on keys backing up Heaven Davis last night and tonight at the Atlanta History Center. The program is called Wild Women Sing the Blues. In the band are Marty’s old friends Kenny Kilgore on guitar and Roger Gregory on bass. Roger just moved back to Atlanta after his house was demolished in…
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Koto! and other studio news
I never post studio news and I ought to. Marty’s going to be recording jazz pianist Takana Miyamoto and koto legend Junko Takeo. And that’s exciting. From elsewhere on the web: Junko Takeo is one of the most appreciated and talented Koto (Japanese traditional instrument) players in the world. She has been playing this magnificent…
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Pointer to Living in the Heart of Chocolate City
Check out the song Living in the Heart of Chocolate City. There’s a sample available, and the full tune can be downloaded for $1.39. 50 percent of the publishing proceeds will go to NOLA’s Habitat for Humanity. Marty got the call to do production on it last week. Recorded by Gato Mahdi and The Whole…
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The Show Must Go On (not, but seems to be)
“Pinocchio, you’ve returned!” And here am I, the first decent morning I’ve had in a while, the whale’s mouth opening a crack. H.o.p. is running in to yell, “The garbage truck is here! The garbage truck is here!” Bang, boom, crash. He sits back down at the computer to draw some more of the marvelous…
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Wacom and plainchant
This is going to take some getting used to, but, oh yeah, Wacom! Listening to madrigals and drawing with the new Wacom, a fine way to spend an evening. Except I don’t have any madrigals, for which reason I’m at Amazon clicking over and over again on offered selections. And as it turns out, H.o.p.…
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Displaying a few musician genes
“That song is done with an accordion, isn’t it? And a piano. That’s really cool. I didn’t know that a piano could make it sound like something was about to happen in the darkness or in the big city. They had an accordion in the movie called Madeline. And that’s Russian music, isn’t it.” He…
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I fail on the song meme
Tild hit me with the following song meme. It doesn’t matter what genre they are, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs in your blog. Then tag five other friends to see what they’re…
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Thumbs Carllile
With a nod to Dharma Bums who got me started thinking about it. Rexroth’s Daughter wrote a beautiful post on the how and why she is a collector of handshakes and her passion for it is a beautiful one unsullied by dropping-name ambitions, each handshake opening to the worlds of those others and the people…
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Wabanog
I was going to make a post. I had made a post. But it is all screwed up in IE so I have to figure out tonight what’s going on in IE means starting over from scratch on this template and rebuilding it again and seeing what’s going on. In the meanwhile I’m going to…