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Tedeschi Trucks: The Storm (Live)

December 12, 2013

I’m the kind of person that will listen to a new CD over and over again until I know every line and every chord in the song.

A few years ago while living in Los Angeles, I had the pleasure of seeing Derek Trucks perform with Eric Clapton on his Road to Escondido Tour in 2007. I was blown away by Derek’s talent that night. It was soon after that show that Trucks went out to perform on his own and then merged his band with his wife, Susan Tedeschi’s band to form the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

I’ve spent a lot of time listening to Tedeschi Trucks latest CD, Made Up Mind and I can categorically say the best song on the CD in my opinion is The Storm. Derek Trucks raging guitar solo that covers Allman Brothers, Clapton and Hendrix guitar licks is simply psychedellic in its ultimate genre. It’s a masterpiece…

Enjoy!

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Inside Llewyn Davis on the Top of My Holiday Movie List

December 11, 2013

Alison Rosa/CBS FIlms
Alison Rosa/CBS FIlms

Inside Llweyn Davis, the new film by the Coen Brothers has been on the top of my must see movie list for a few weeks now. The radio station I listen to, WUMB, has been playing quite a few cuts from the soundtrack and the music has definitely sparked my interest in the film.

Apparently A.O. Scott of the NY Times feels Inside Llewyn Davis is also a must see movie for 2013:

The musical performances — especially from Oscar Isaac, who plays the title character — are hauntingly lovely, and they anchor Joel and Ethan Coen’s exploration, at once mordant and melancholy, of the early-’60s New York folk scene. A ballad of bad luck and squandered talent that already seems, like the music it celebrates, to have been around forever.

Inside Llewyn Davis is based on the Greenwich Village Folk scene of 1961 and loosely derived from Dave Van Ronk’s memiour: The Mayor of MacDougal Street. Read more about the film here.

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Nelson Mandela Dies at 95

December 5, 2013

The world lost a great citizen today… Nelson Mandela passed away today, he was 95. Mandela was a “freedom fighter, statesman, moral compass and South Africa’s symbol of the struggle against racial oppression,” who “emerged from prison after 27 years to lead his country out of decades of apartheid.”

U2 recently released this video for the film “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”:

Watch the trailer for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

The world mourns a very bright light that will shine forever in the heavens…

 

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Valerie June: “Pushin’ Against a Stone” (WFUV Live at City Winery)

December 1, 2013

Valerie June is one of my favorite new artists. Here’s a live version of the the title song of her new CD, Pushin’ Against A Stone:

Valerie June transcends a few different genres in her debut CD, roots, electric, blues, gospel to name a few. There is a whole lotta good on her CD… no bad.

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: Bound for Glory

November 28, 2013

Live from Atlanta…

Enjoy!

 

 

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Springsteen Live: Talk To Me

November 26, 2013

Great live performance of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band doing “Talk To Me”:

Springsteen wrote “Talk To Me” in and gave it to Southside Johnny, who had a hit with it on his Hearts of Stone album in 1978. I was a huge Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes fan back in the day…

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