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Classic Springsteen Live: Tenth Avenue Freeze Out

Part of the soundtrack to my life… An epic live version of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing Tenth Avenue Freeze Out live in NYC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qbTSENLK_o

Enjoy!

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Melody Gardot – La Vie En Rose

Melody Gardot’s La Vie En Rose was initially recorded exclusively for luxury jeweller Piaget and is now available on the deluxe edition of her new album ‘The Absence‘. I usually prefer to post live performances but this video is a fun little romantic slice of Melody Gardot…

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R.I.P. Woodstock Legend Richie Havens

The great “folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens, who opened the 1969 Woodstock music festival, died Monday at age 72, his talent agency, the Roots Agency, reports.”

Fin Costello / Redferns file via Getty Images Richie Havens in concert in 1973.
Fin Costello / Redferns file via Getty Images
Richie Havens in concert in 1973.

Havens career spaned decades but he is perhaps most remembered as being the opening act for Woodstock with a 2 hour performance that included “improvising the song “Freedom” based on the old spiritual “Motherless Child.””

Here’s one of my favorite Richie Havens tunes: (more…)

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Loreena McKennitt – All Souls Night

From Nights From the Alhambra: Loreena McKennitt performs All Souls Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6LbxBFtT9k

Happy Halloween.

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Loreena McKennitt: Huron ‘Beltane’ Fire Dance (Live)

The festival of Beltane is celebrated on May 1 in the Celtic tradition. It is marked as the midpoint between spring and summer.  Starting the night before, fires were lit and it was a time of celebration, with dancing around the fire, invoking this as a time for renewing fertility and abundance, as crops were planted.

When I listen to Loreena McKennitt, I can envision the ancients dancing around the fire to music much like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNknNe3JWH8

Enjoy…

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Springsteen: “American Skin (41 Shots)” Live in Tampa, FL

From his new Wrecking Ball tour, Springsteen is performing an updated version of “American Skin (41 Shots)”.  “This is for Trayvon,” Springsteen said last night in Philly…

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