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Train Songs-Two Lists
Regular readers of this blog, follows of my twitter feed, and all my friends are aware that I’ve been collecting train songs for a few weeks. I wanted to post the list before National Train Day on May 8, 2010, but I didn’t get it posted. But here they are now, in two versions. Neither Rhapsody or iTunes has all the songs I need for the list, but between the two of them, I have almost nearly all the songs. There’s some overlap. Thanks to everyone who sent me suggestions. If you have more, keep them coming. Let me know the song and where you heard it or why you like it. Let me know what you think of these lists, too.
Train Songs
Here’s the Rhapsody List.
Train Songs
- Play A Train Song Todd Snider
- City Of New Orleans Steve Goodman
- Midnight Train to Georgia Gladys Knight
- Chatanooga Choo Choo Glenn Miller
- Last Train To Clarksville Cassandra Wilson
- People Get Ready Rod Stewart
- Take The “A” Train Ella Fitzgerald
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Google Doodles: Umm Kulthum, Jan Amos Komensky and Others You Never Saw.
Yesterday was the birthday of the great Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, at least as far as records in her home province indicate. The 30th of December is also cited sometimes, but Google took notice yesterday and marked the occasion with a Google Doodle on the Egyptian version of their site. Given her significance in Egyptian culture, indeed Arab culture as a whole, the tribute is appropriate. Indeed, she probably ranks among the best known and most loved singers the world has ever know.
I dare say, however, that few in America that are not of Arab descent have ever heard of Umm Kulthum. I certainly hadn’t until I was introduced to her by Middle Eastern television. To me that begs a question. Google Doodles are a learning opportunity, as the are accompanied by links to whatever the image represents. Of course Google wins points my honoring this great diva in Egypt and it also does its part in keeping her memory alive for a younger generation that, like young people all over the world, is becoming used to shorter pop songs, accompanied by slick video images.
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Heavy Rotation on my Music Playlist
Just an eclectic playlist of some stuff I find myself listening to a lot lately. Mostly pretty mellow stuff. There are a few of artists I’d like to single out:
- Elizabeth Cotten is a self taught left handed guitarist and banjo player from rural NC who was discovered while working for the Seeger family as a maid. She recorded here first album when she was in her 60s, and ended up recording quite a few
- Samantha Farrell‘s second album, Luminous, was produced by LeRoi Moore of DMB, and is a more interesting collection, but it is not available on Lala so I couldn’t include it in this widget. But I like this collection
too. Farrell is a talented musician with a rich voice, so I think she’d probably have to make an effort to produce a bad record.
- I’ve included a few songs from a benefit album for
Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. This is a great collection of songs. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is all about saving traditional style jazz from New Orleans. The album pairs them with some of the better known or critically acclaimed artists in contemporary popular music to sing some of the best known standards.
- Corpus Christi Bay is uncharacteristically mellow and lacking in irony for Todd Snider, but it was written by Robert Earl Keen. I like Snider’s voice on this kind of song. He should do more of them.
You probably know enough about all the rest of this stuff. Enjoy.
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Trombone Shorty's "Backatown"
I saw this guy and his band play during the French Quarter Festival last year in New Orleans. They were a lot fun. A unique and exciting style of fun and funky jazz.
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Tom Goss on "The Politics of Love"
Tom Goss is set to release a new EP, The Politics of Love and a DVD Live at Terry’s the first week in April, and the first stop on the tour to promote the disk is in Cambridge, MA on April 6. He’ll be joined by Jeremiah Clark and special guest Stewart Lewis. It starts at 9 pm at All Asia Cuisine and Cocktail Bar and promises to be a great show!
Recently I had the opportunity to interview Tom about the new releases, and the results are below. Through a technical glitch (Ok, I admit, I forgot to set the software to detect my mic as well as Tom’s) I only have his audio, so I’ve edited it together with voice over and some really awkward edits. But it will give you a sense of Tom’s music in advance of the show. It’s pretty good stuff, so check it out. Advance tickets only $5 at www.tomgossmusic/tickets
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Singer/Songwriter Tom Goss discusses his a new EP “The Politics of Love,” which deals with the issue of Marriage Equality in the United States.
Music I'm Listening to these Days
Every once in a while, I feel like sharing the music I’ve been listening to lately on this blog. Even in this age of iPods, I still believe music is meant to be enjoyed socially. So I’m sharing a few things here and would love to know what you think of them for better or worse.
This first set is a handful of videos from people I’ve seen live recently and have enjoyed or who are recent discoveries. Let me know what you think.
Saw Jamie Cullum at the House of Blues and he was brilliant. Much more of a showman than I thought he’d be, and much more of a piano virtuoso, too. HOB was a terrible venue though, at least in my opinion. Stupid rules about where you can stand; constant distractions from staff moving people around, according to the rules, yet being inconsistent about it; ATMs with $4 fees; terrible, cold concession food that is only available on the 1st floor which folks from the upper floors are not allowed to go down too except when the food is ready. It’s the most un-Rock and Roll rock Rock Rock Club that I have been to in a long time.
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We are the World I and II
This is the video for the 25th anniversary version of “We Are the World”, made for the benefit of earthquake victims in Haiti.
This is a noble project. The disaster in Haiti is certainly one of the worst in recent memory. As of February 10 the reported number of deaths was 230,000. Stalin once said “”A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,” and I confess that 230,000 is a difficult number for me to wrap my head around, so I went looking for points of reference. Comparisons are hard to find.
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"The '59 Sound" and Those Guys from Jersey
Just two comments on this video.
1) I was there!
2) It was awesome!
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