Avedon has YouTube links to four (4!) versions of Steve Winwood’s Can’t Find My Way Home, including two by the man himself from the Blind Faith album. The other two are live versions performed by (boggle) Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, and Nathan East. Here’s the Winwood pair (both acoustic and electric):
Over at My Left Nutmeg mr B got the same Republican National Committee survey I just did. It’s got some really misleading questions in it. For example, under “Homeland Security,” this question: Should we do everything we can to stop the Democrats from repealing critical border and port security legislation? Well now. My memory is …
Anybody see the Gershwin Award show Wednesday night? Here’s the honoree singing Graceland in Central Park.
What can we conclude from the demise of the immigration bill and the SCOTUS school decision today? Why, that the conservative party of this country really does want to move society back to a time when black and Hispanic people were invisible at best and a troublesome minority to be trampled at worst. I liked …
Curse you, Lance! 1. All right, here are the rules. 2. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. 3. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves. 4. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. 5. At the end …
If faithless love is a principal theme of traditional music, why did it take until 1976 for somebody (J.D. Souther) to write a song with that title?
Has there been a product introduced in the past five years with more hype than the iPhone is getting? I’m thinking Segway, but other than that. . .
Here are today’s SCOTUS decisions in a nutshell, from the WaPo Court watcher (all four links in the block are pdf): Conservatives go 4-4 today at the Supreme Court Legal and political conservatives hit for the cycle Monday morning when they “won” four long-awaited rulings from the United States Supreme Court. The Justices further chipped …
The other day we learned of the schizophrenic idea that the Vice President thinks his office is not subject to rules which govern either the Executive or Legislative branch. By now you may have heard of the WaPo’s ongoing four-part series about our illustrious Vice President. Part Two was published today. If you haven’t got …
For my money, Linda Ronstadt did a better job of selecting songs suited to her voice than any other woman in the 1970s. This one’s “It’s So Easy,” written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty. She’s still active, by the way: her latest album is a 2006 collaboration with Ann Savoy entitled Adieu False Heart. …