Jeb Loy Nichols: “Heaven Right Here” (2000)
Sitting around in your yard never sounded like such a great idea.
Songs You May Have Missed #85
16 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: heaven right here, jeb loy nichols
Songs You May Have Missed #84
16 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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Freelance Whales: “Hannah” (2010)
The only working band who, apparently, play a cardboard TARDIS.
Songs You May Have Missed #83
16 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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Poco: “Rose of Cimarron” (1976)
If I were to assemble a compilation of my favorite 70’s country rock songs, this beauty would be the perfect leadoff track.
Poco rose from the ashes of Buffalo Springfield (Richie Furay and Jim Messina were members of both bands) to enjoy a 20-year chart run, despite many personnel changes.
Poco served as a sort of farm team for the Eagles, with both Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmit moving on from one band to the other. In fact Schmit, who sings the verses here. replaced Randy Meisner in Poco in 1969, then in 1977 he replaced Meisner again, this time in the Eagles.
My favorite YouTube comment regarding this song follows:
“another arm of the Troubador days going the Eagles way, after Gram Parsons…its all good, all them boots and guitar dudes…..shit Im loaded”
Spam Snacks: This Blog’s Most Baffling Recent Comments
16 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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Joy in the Congo: The Inspiring Story of the Only Symphony Orchestra in Central Africa
15 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7404678n&tag=contentBody%3bstoryMediaBox
60 Minutes’ remarkable story of the Symphonic Orchestra Kimbanguiste, an orchestra unlike any you’ve seen.
Travelling on foot 90 minutes each way to rehearse six days a week on a salvaged instrument to prepare for an unpaid performance…these people feel the joy of music a little more than most of us. Inspiring stuff.
Madonna’s MDNA on track to set record for biggest second-week sales drop ever
14 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
Last week Madonna’s latest album, MDNA, conquered the Billboard albums chart by selling 359,000 copies in its first week. Those sales figures were goosed quite a bit by CDs being bundled with concert tickets for Madonna’s upcoming tour, a practice that allowed Prince’s Musicology to go platinum back in 2004. About half of Madonna’s first-week sales, or 185,000 records, came from being sold as part of a ticket package.
As MDNA heads into its second week, the album appears headed for a major tumble, with Forbes reporting that sales dropped a whopping 88 percent, down to 46,000 copies. That’s the biggest second-week drop ever, a tumble that’s been attributed to the album’s lack of successful singles and Madonna’s limited promotion via TV appearances and live shows. [via Rolling Stone]
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Not a big fan of manipulating chart and sales performance with gimmicks such as bundling album sales with concert tickets. It muddies the waters forever after in terms of determining what was truly the most popular music of a given time. Madonna’s concert tickets are still a hot item, so there is still demand for her live performance. The precipitous drop of the second, unbundled week’s album sales, however, suggests fans are buying the tickets to see her perform older material, and the public have responded to her latest work with disinterest. As much as she tries to fight slipping into irrelevance (she seems, pathetically, to be going for a younger image with every new photo and video I see) she’s slowly becoming an oldies act. She ain’t the Beach Boys just yet, but neither is she any threat to Rihanna or Ke$ha at this point, either.
