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Preachin’ The Blues

April 27, 2008 6:06 pm

I was downstairs wrangling the laundry earlier today, and clicked on the radio to KEXP. Being Sunday morning, it was Johnny Horn. Man, this guy is great. Every week it’s nothing but the best soul and funk, and always Johnny picks the tunes that just flow so well together.

Today’s segment that I caught was just killer funky — I tuned in right at the beginning of a fantastic live version of “Having a Party” by Sam Cooke, followed up by a tune by a band called “Little Beaver”, and then a set of kick-butt tunes from an album called “James Brown’s Funky People 3” with some great singing from Lyn Collins. I turned it up loud and it made for a very entertaining laundry session…

You can listen to the streaming archive here, and I think they’ll have the show up for a couple of weeks.

P.S. you can always catch the live feed here, or on your mobile device here.

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Paul Pena

June 13, 2007 3:50 pm

FMGT turned me onto this guy, and after listening to his music and reading his biography, I realized that this is a guy that was so close to making it big, but life just didn’t have that in its plan for him. So good, and so sad. (in addition, now I know who wrote “Jet Airliner” popularized by Steve Miller…)

Paul Pena

Paul Pena (January 26, 1950 - October 1, 2005) was a multi-genre singer, pianist, and guitarist, who performed Mississippi Delta blues, jazz, flamenco, folk, rock and roll and Tuvan throat-singing. more…

[via FoxyTunes / Paul Pena]

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Music Update

May 3, 2007 4:33 pm

I’ve been scared reading about the copyright/internet radio legislation that is in the works, and so I’ve been listening to a lot of music off the web while it’s still legal. Here’s what I’m currently listening to:

Radio Paradise has been a long-time favorite, and I’ve donated on a number of occasions to them.
Pandora is another great place to hear new music, especially if you make a couple of stations from artists that you like, and then use those to create a combo-station. Nice!
Critical Metrics is new, and shows you the most popular tunes across a number of music review sites.
Hype Machine is not new, and shows you a ton of tunes across a variety of mp3 blogs. I like the Flash player.

Of course, I still use MusicIP Mixer to create playlists of the music I already have locally, and sometimes will use Orb to stream music from my home server.

What are you using?

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Everybody Hurts

April 18, 2007 2:41 pm

R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts

[via FoxyTunes / R.E.M.]

I heard this song on KMTT this morning, prefaced by Marty saying”the MTV video for this song is one of the most depressing videos of all time”. With that kind of hyperbole, I just had to watch for myself. So, off to YouTube via FoxyPlanet, and I have to say I don’t agree with that comment. Sure, life is depressing at times, but the song and lyrics are kinda anti-depressing. To me at least - ymmv.

Normally I wouldn’t blog something like this, but I’m trying out the “Blog This” capability from FoxyPlanet…

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MusicPlasma -> LivePlasma

February 21, 2005 11:10 am

Amazon Web Services Blog: Music Plasma becomes Live Plasma

I’ve always been a big fan of MusicPlasma, especially given my thoughts to integrate it with a playlist generator.

Now, Amazon reports that MusicPlasma has become “LivePlasma” - must check this out…