Category Archives: Music

>Look what I found

Posted on 11 February, 2010 by jb

> First of all, here’s Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris from 1987 with “To Know Him Is To Love Him” (“Teddybears”, written by Phil Spector) backed by the Crème de la crème of the West Coast session scene … Continue reading →

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>Rick Danko, Levon Helm & Paul Butterfield – Live at The Getaway, West Saugerties, NY 17 July 1985

Posted on 8 February, 2010 by jb

> The Getaway no longer exists. West Saugerties is only JUST there, with a pretty patchy historical documentation “There is evidence in West Saugerties of what appears to be an early 20th century logging industry”(!) What is well-documented, though, is … Continue reading →

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>The case for copyright

Posted on 6 February, 2010 by jb

> I’m not talking about the way Big Media sees it i.e. lock everything down tight and don’t even let people use a song to illustrate a story. I reckon that an artist’s copyright should extend to their being able … Continue reading →

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Downtrou

Posted on 3 February, 2010 by jb

Our teachers at Westlake Boys High in Auckland in the mid 1960s were a mixed bunch. Mostly our parents’ age and – like our fathers – mostly veterans from WW2. Rod McMillan, the headmaster, flew carrier-based Corsairs in the Pacific, … Continue reading →

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>Now, here’s a treat – reloaded

Posted on 16 January, 2010 by jb

> This turned up today. What a treat. Tobi Ruhland plays the hammered dulcimer. He’s a DJ on Zündfunk, a “youth/scene” focused program on ever excellent Bayern 2 radio.I’m wildly outside their demographic target market, but I listen anyway…. He … Continue reading →

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>The other jb

Posted on 7 January, 2010 by jb

> J A Bartlett “does weekends and fill-ins on the air at Magic 98, an adult-contemporary station in Madison, Wisconsin” He’s also the author of the excellent “The Hits Just Keep On Comin‘” blog and organiser of the Vinyl Record … Continue reading →

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>Fairytale of New York

Posted on 25 December, 2009 by jb

> Best Christmas song ever by a drunk man with bad teeth.

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>At least it’s for a good cause

Posted on 13 December, 2009 by jb

> “Must be Santa“, I can live with “O little town of Bethlehem” definitely not. This is the sort of stuff that turns normally good-natured people into Scrooges….

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Why can’t I help this stuff

Posted on 11 December, 2009 by jb

  At the Christmas exhibition at the local Craftpeople’s Guild. I look at the scarf draped around the cranium of the show window dummy and think: “Spoon. Gimme fiction” I also know where I bought the CD (great little record … Continue reading →

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Baby sitting

Posted on 10 December, 2009 by jb

  Or… “How to piss off a v. young-looking 49 year old” I’ve known Robby since she was 3. Her folks moved into our road in the early 1960s and they became Mrs jb and my best friends. No-one else … Continue reading →

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