Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
28 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: amantes', greeicy, mike bahia
Greeicy featuring Mike Bahia: “Amantes” (2017)
Colombian actress/singer Greeicy Yeliana Rendón Ceballos transitioned from TV acting to a career as a singer in 2017. The duet “Amantes” (“Lovers”) was her second single release and first time hitting the charts (#3 in Colombia and #1 in Mexico).
She’d later go on to multi-platinum success and Grammy nominations.
17 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: alice cooper, elvis presley
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in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: middle brother
Middle Brother: “Middle Brother” (2011)
Super group? Nah. Middle Brother, the side project comprised of the lead singers of Dawes, Deer Tick, and Delta Spirit (Taylor Goldsmith, John McCauley, and Matthew Vasquez respectively) feels more like a rollicking bit of fun, with no lofty ambitions beyond mutual musical commiseration over female troubles.
“Middle Brother”–the song, the album and indeed the band–present an irreverent brand of alt-country folk with a skewed sense of humor, and it makes this listener wish these guys had followed up one of the best Americana albums of the last decade or two.
Middle Brother bring to mind another similar collective, Tripwires, whose work can be found elsewhere on this blog.
16 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: lady mary, the sallyangie
The Sallyangie: “Lady Mary” (1969)
The Sallyangie were a British folk duo comprised of a 16-year-old Mike Oldfield and his 21-year-old sister Sally. Their single LP, the gently ethereal Children of the Sun, will be either musical balm or emetic depending on your affinity for fey Lord of the Rings-inspired Renaissance Faire soundtrack music.
Some critics have panned the sound quality, the singing, Mike’s musicianship and the dated, naive fairytale-cum-hippy essence of the music, but its inclusion here tells you what I think of their appraisals. Of course, I’ve read Tolkien’s trilogy five times and attend the Ren Fest yearly…
Of undeniable quality are the arrangements contributed by one David (now Dee) Palmer, whose brilliance graces some of Jethro Tull’s greatest and most complex work.
Mike Oldfield is best known for a tune about as far removed from Children of the Sun as it could possibly be: “Tubular Bells” a.k.a. the theme from The Exorcist.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2021/04/07/songs-you-may-have-missed-688/
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2022/07/03/songs-you-may-have-missed-732/
16 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: david bowie, john lennon
(via Guitar Player) by Elizabeth Swann
In 1974, David Bowie was fresh off his reign as the glam-rock’s biggest act. After his breakthrough success that began with Ziggy Stardust and continued through Diamond Dogs, he was about to make a turn toward soul and funk with his next album, Young Americans.
Despite his success, he could still be in awe of his idols. When the opportunity to meet John Lennon arose that year, Bowie was beside himself.
Like millions of teens in the 1960s, he had been a Beatles fan. His own career began to take off in the mid 1960s, during which time he flirted with influences ranging from the Rolling Stones to the Who to Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd. But while Bowie never dabbled in the Beatles’ style of pop, but he was enamored of the group, and John Lennon in particular.
“Oh hell, he was one of the major influences on my musical life,” Bowie said in an interview recorded in the 1980s. “I mean, I just thought he was the very best of what could be done with rock and roll, and also ideas.
“I felt such kin to him in as much as that he would rifle the avant-garde and look for ideas that were so on the outside, on the periphery of what was the mainstream — and then apply them in a functional manner to something that was considered populist and make it work. He would take the most odd idea and make it work for the masses…
Every Moment Has A Song 