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  Wednesday, February 03, 2010 – Permalink –

My One and Only Thrill

Melody Gardot


B001NESPHC
Verve April 28, 2009

Gentle. Almost from another time.


"The story of vocalist Melody Gardot is as remarkable as any who perseveres against abject adversity. Born in New Jersey in 1985, she took up piano and played as a youngster on the nightclub scene of Philadelphia, influenced by jazz, folk, rock and pop musics. At age 19 she was a fashion student at the Community College of Philadelphia. But, on a fateful day, while riding her bicycle, the driver of a Jeep made an illegal turn, hurdling into Gardot and leaving her in the street for dead. Hospitalized for months with multiple head injuries and pelvic fractures, her love for music was the best therapy she could receive.
Her music could be described as a cross between Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy, and Shania Twain, but goes deeper than mere pop convention. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide"








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  Saturday, December 26, 2009 – Permalink –

Garden Cities of To-morrow

Lullaby Baxter's Back


The quirky star of Capable Egg returns.





Rattled Little Clam

Montreal, 1997. Lullaby Baxter is waiting tables at Jello Bar. Coaxed on stage for an impromptu number, she sings Billie Holiday's signature song "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)". This, her first public performance since grade school, brings down the house.

She buys a green guitar and learns "Leaving On A Jet Plane". Someone at the Laundromat says, "Anyway, try writing songs."

Lullaby's Bio




Little Song
Also see:
Capable Egg



[Edited entry from 12/26/2006]




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  Thursday, March 19, 2009 – Permalink –

Nite Tide

(Uxoricide)


Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
ASIN B00004UDE3
Hightone Records August 15, 2000


About the Artist
"Hailing from Anaheim, California, Big Sandy (neé Robert Williams) draws from a number of influences--country, western swing, rockabilly, doo wop, R & B, and jump blues. The best Big Sandy songs are the sexy ones about seduction, innocent on the surface and a little dirty underneath. The retro appeal of the band is equivalent to a Model T or Vargas bombshell"



Recording Description
Groovin', jumpin', hot rods, Rock-a-billy.
One of the cuts -- When Sleep Won't Come (Blues for Spade) -- refers to the uxoricidal "Spade" Cooley.

Also see:
The Old Corral, b-westerns, Inc

A Nickel and a Fiddle

Contents
  1. Night Tide - Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
  2. Between Darkness and Dawn
  3. Tequila Calling
  4. When Sleep Won't Come (Blues for Spade)
  5. If You Only Knew - Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
  6. Give Your Loving to Me
  7. In the Steel of the Night
  8. Man Like Me
  9. Hey Lowdown!
  10. My Time Will Come Someday
  11. I Think of You
  12. Nothing to Lose
  13. South Bay Stomp
  14. Let Her Know

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  Saturday, November 29, 2008 – Permalink –

Fitness to Practice

Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin


Adam Kay & Suman Biswas
Media Hut 2004

"Adam Kay & Suman Biswas practice medicine with varying degrees of success, and have made time from their busy schedules of completing Critical Incident Forms to record this CD.

They first had a goat singing back in 1998, when they started writing songs to entertain doctors, medical students and physiothe rapists, and regularly perform their songs for puerile medical and non-medical audiences. This is the first time that they have done anal bum together and they hope you enjoy the songs."


(Their word spacing is intentional, or Bob's my uncle.)


Really really not ready for the workplace parodies

  1. Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin

  2. Nothing at All

  3. Finals Countdown

  4. Your Baby

  5. Disney Time

  6. Eternal Clerking

  7. The Menstrual Rag

  8. London Underground
    "Today I've got to take my bike
    Cos once again the tube's on strike
    The greedy bastards want extra pay
    For sitting on their arse all day
    Even though they earn 30k
    So I'm standing here in the pouring rain
    Where the f***'s my f***ing train?"

  9. Mr Burton

  10. Snippets

  11. Careless Surgeon

  12. Dorsal Horn Concerto

  13. The Drugs Song

  14. Always Look on the Bright Side

  15. A Letter to the Patient's GP Please, Angela


Amateur Transplants.com

Click on the Video and/or listen to the pieces online.

The cost is £6.30 (£10.30 outside the UK). Raising money for Macmillan Cancer Relief


[Edited entry from 9/15/2005]



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  Thursday, October 30, 2008 – Permalink –

The Golden Striker

By Ron Carter


ASIN 7243 5 90832 2 3
Blue Note 2003




About the Artist
Ron Carter on bass, Russell Malone on guitar, Mulgrew Miller on piano

"Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,500 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music's greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. He later toured Europe with Cannonball Adderley.

From 1963 to 1968, he was a member of the classic and acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet. He was named Outstanding Bassist of the Decade by the Detroit News, Jazz Bassist of the Year by Downbeat magazine, and Most Valuable Player by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

In 1993 Ron Carter earned a Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Group, the Miles Davis Tribute Band and another Grammy in 1998 for Call 'Sheet Blues', an instrumental composition from the film 'Round Midnight."


Recording Description
"Tasteful" jazz

Contents
1. The Golden Striker
2. On And On
3. N.Y. Slick
4. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio Theme)
5. Cedar Tree
6. A Quick Sketch
7. Parade
8. A Theme In 3/4
9. Autumn Leaves




See (and hear):
RonCarter.net
(If you want some jazz to fill in the spaces while you work, you can have continuous sounds from this site)




[updated entry from 8/13/2005]



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  Tuesday, April 01, 2008 – Permalink –

Minton Sparks

Could the air be any fresher . . .





"Sparks talks like Lucinda Williams sings; low, bed-headed and husky with sin, either remembered or imagined. In the syncopated monologues on her new spoken-word album, THIS DRESS, your gas-pumping mama, your fellow Baptists and your unmentionable relatives occupy every slot on the Waffle House jukebox, and when musical guests like Keb'Mos' and Maura O'Connell chime in, you can even dance to 'em.

---Jim Ridley Nashville Scene

With a voice born for gospel and a word artistry that makes you laugh and weep by turns, Sparks offers poems sorrowful and hilarious about the land of the double-wides.

---SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT-June 2005



Minton Sparks.com

RARWriter.com



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  Friday, February 01, 2008 – Permalink –

Capable Egg

By Lullaby Baxter Trio


ASIN B000046S0B
Atlantic 2000



About the Artist
Lullaby Baxter (Angelina Iapaulo) is neither fish nor fowl.


"Lullaby Baxter's story couldn't be better: A onetime topless DJ at a Toronto club, Baxter (Canadian-born Angelina Teresa Iapaulo) was discovered when she impulsively sang at an open-mic night.

Her backing band couldn't be better, either: The Oranj Symphonette .Baxter brings to her music torch-song gentility.

"Rooster In Love" is a barnyard-romance yarn that may not be metaphor, while "Mama (Should I Bake A Cherry Pie And Hide You Inside?)" is told from the perspective of a fretting child trying to save mom from some dire, rapidly approaching fate.

"Morty Mort-Morton Showstopper Calhoun," "Knucklehead," and "Ding-A-Ling" are teasing schoolyard chants, while "Mr. Powder-Blue Breadbox," "Horsey Don't Snore," and "The Chatterbox Chronicles" are full of surreal twists worthy of Lewis Carroll.

Capable Egg presents a strange world populated by even stranger people, but Lullaby Baxter Trio's grip on its eccentric material is remarkably restrained and mysteriously magnetic."




Recording Description
Good sound quirky lyrics.


Contents

1. Hopscotch
2. Anyway Song
3. Knucklehead
4. Rooster in Love
5. Mr. Powder-Blue Breadbox
6. Chatterbox Chronicles
7. Mama (Should I Bake a Cherry Pie and Hide You Inside?)
8. Ding-A-Ling
9. Morty-Mort-Morton Showstopper Calhoun
10. Spacegirl
11. Horsey Don't Snore
12. Lullaby
13. Ding-A-Ling (Reprise)


Also see:
Lullabyandgoodnight

Lullaby Baxter For Prime Minister

[edited entry from 5/28/2005]




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