Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
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in Video of the Week Tags: ian anderson, jethro tull, lou gramm
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in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: carlos vives, matilde lina
CarlosVives: “Matilde Lina” (1994)
Multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winner Carlos Vives specializes in the vibrant, uplifting sounds of Columbian vallenato music.
Like Juan Luis Guerra with the bachata and merange music of the Dominican Republic, Vives updates the traditional sounds with driving percussion, lively accordian, electric guitar accents and bold, full-throated vocals.
It’s music with a joyful energy, ideal for adding a splash of color to a playlist, or perking up your drab workday afternoon.
The Clásicos de la Provincia album sold 4 million copies worldwide and well over a million in Colombia alone.
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in General Posts Tags: maddy prior, steeleye span
(via The ARTery) uly 20, 2015 by Chris Braiotta
I want to talk to you about what it means to experiment. Let’s begin with the following sentence: “We did try a reggae ‘Spotted Cow’ and we weren’t terribly convinced by it, so we stopped doing it.”
You’ll be needing a little context for that. “Spotted Cow” is a song from around 1740. It’s about a woman who’s lost her cow. She complains about it to this guy she runs into. He’s like, “Lady, I am game to help you find your cow. Let us do this.” They go off to a field to find it. Obvious place to start, right? Before long … well, you know how fields are. Sexiest thing in nature. So they decide to do what comes naturally to a man and a woman in a field, which isn’t really looking for cows. From then on, whenever the lady’s looking for a bit of you-know-what, she finds some guy and tells him about her cow.
The speaker of that sentence was Maddy Prior, singer of the great English folk-rock band Steeleye Span. This is a band that she’s led since 1969.
So, to sum up: ‘70s English folk-rock band, cow used as cover story for Georgian booty call. And then: reggae.
“When you’re experimenting with things they can’t all be winners,” she says. “I’m pleased that we tried things.”
I don’t care how “out there” you think your favorite band is. This is what it means to be fearless. This is what experimenting is…
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