Oh When The Saints...

for All Saints Day of course


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Happy Halloween

also...


If you grew up in central or south Jersey, you grew up with the "Jersey Devil."

Here's a little musical Halloween treat from Bruce Springsteen.

Have fun!


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Rockpile

britishRoyalty
aZeppelin
to
MEmphis


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Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood

Lugano, Switzerland
7/5/2007


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Dragon Attack

Japan 1982


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1977

The Who
Summertime Blues / Shaking All Over
Gaumont State Theatre
Kilburn, London
15 December 1977


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Deerhoof

I f*cking love when I stumble upon cool music


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RIP Merl Saunders

Merl Saunders was born Merl Saunders Washington (he dropped the "Washington" for show biz purposes) in San Mateo, California on February 14, 1934; he passed away early this morning (October 24, 2008) at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco.

Saunders grew up in San Francisco and was a proficient piano player by age 10. He attended Polytechnic High School, Served in the Air Force and Attended University of Mainz in Germany. Saunders married Betty Crenshaw and leaves behind three children (Anthony Saunders, Merl Saunders Jr., Susan Saunders) and a number of grand kids.

Saunders became one of the preeminent Hammond B-3 player of his generation; beginning his long strange trip by apprenticing with the great Jimmy Smith. In 1970 Saunders began playing with Jerry Garcia in the Bay Area under bands called Legion of Mary and then Garcia/Saunders. The duo recorded a number of famous albums including Heavy Turbulence, Fire Up, and Live at the Keystone. Their 1990 collaboration, Blues from the Rainforest, was a Billboard Top 10 in the New Age category.

Saunders contributed to the Grateful Dead album Grateful Dead (1971), and in the mid-1980s worked with the band as musical director for the "Twilight Zone" television show.

He became known as the senior member of the jam band scene having played with Phish, Blues Traveler and Widespread Panic. He was instrumental in allowing young talent to play and record with him, giving first opportunity to the likes of Sheila E, Chris Hayes (Huey Lewis & the News), Bonnie Hayes (Billy Idol) and Bob Steeler (Hot Tuna).

In parallel to his rock career, Saunders worked as a jazz trio player, performing and recording with Harry Belafonte, Frank Sinatra, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, and Paul Butterfield. He also contributed to the scores of the films "Heavy Traffic" and "Fritz the Cat."


here's an exerpt from Blues From the Rainforest

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Isfahan

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tuna

Jorma and Jack

dats sum pickin'



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Carlos

and his band in new york


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Compared To What?

Les McCann, Piano, Vocals
Eddie Harris, Tenor Sax
Benny Bailey, Trumpet
Leroy Vinnegar, Bass
Donald Dean, Drums

Montreux 6/21/69


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The Pretenders

Boots of Chinese Plastic
2008

I've always dug a few of their tunes (Message of Love, My City Was Gone, Middle of the Road) but never owned an album. Heard this song on the radio last week and was blown away.


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AC/DC

They have a new album coming out next week and what I've heard so far sounds great (especially the track War Machine).

Here's an old one...

from almost 30 years ago with the legendary Bon Scott.

ROCK


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Rednecks

The best way to hear Randy Newman is alone. Hearing him at home with someone else snickering along to his jokes isn’t much pleasure. Hearing him live, with other people around you, is peculiar torture.

He’s an excellent torturer. Not that that he’s a bad performer, or that he makes bad art. It’s the opposite of bad art — done in fine strokes, with unreliable narrators, several kinds of irony and proud resistance to musical trends. Al Green hands out roses when he sings. Randy Newman distributes shame.

-from a N.Y. Times review of a Randy Newman show


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Willie Dixon

on 6-string acoustic


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Tijuana Lady

Ben Ottewell


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I Pity the Poor Immigrant

Fort Collins, Colorado
1976

"I pity the poor immigrant
Who wishes he would've stayed home,
Who uses all his power to do evil
But in the end is always left so alone.
That man whom with his fingers cheats
And who lies with ev'ry breath,
Who passionately hates his life
And likewise, fears his death.

I pity the poor immigrant
Whose strength is spent in vain,
Whose heaven is like Ironsides,
Whose tears are like rain,
Who eats but is not satisfied,
Who hears but does not see,
Who falls in love with wealth itself
And turns his back on me.

I pity the poor immigrant
Who tramples through the mud,
Who fills his mouth with laughing
And who builds his town with blood,
Whose visions in the final end
Must shatter like the glass.
I pity the poor immigrant
When his gladness comes to pass"


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WAYLON

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2 from Ryan Adams

2007




2007


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LKJ

Linton Kwesi Johnson
Paris 2003


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Passion, Grace & Fire

Paco De Lucia
Al Di Meola
John McLaughlin


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America the Beautiful

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MONK

1963


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New York City 1979

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Leo Kottke

12 string insanity!



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YYZ

There are no casual RUSH fans...

either you LOVE 'em or you don't.

I've been a fan for 25 years.

amazing players



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Ravi

Ravi Shankar, sitar
Ali Akbar Khan, sarod
Alla Rakha, tabla
Kamala Chakravarty, tamboura


The Concert For Bangladesh
MSG 1972



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The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines

1979



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Down In The Valley

soul



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Matt Guitar Murphy

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