January 2010 I get the feeling that the crowd-pleasers of these covers and non-covers so far have been the songs from the not-so-distant past – alternative rock songs from Buffalo Tom and our most immediate influences or contemporaries. At least, that is what I get from the more vocal feedback. Clearly, though, this is a …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uKGWpqnS8E] Check out Jesse Winchester on Elvis Costello’s Spectacle. Jesse might not be everyone’s cup of tea. Some my find him too straightforward or sentimental. To those I say: hey, there’s no accounting for the taste of such cold-hearted wretches like you who can’t recognize brilliant songcraft when it is staring you in your sad …
Some folks requested this one over at Facebook. Had a few minutes, so here you go, a bonus non-CoTW. I was a bit more dolled up than the “Porchlight” clip in below post. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo9xFericNw] http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
My friend Vincent T. — the close friend of my recently deceased Uncle Vince — called me this morning and let me know that Vince’s cell phone is still on. He was not the first to try it. But he and others who have called it told me the same thing: It was therapeutic to …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfedjztKkRs] I don’t care how self-serving this is, I am re-posting this because it makes me happy. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
For those of you not on Facebook, here are some links to galleries of old photos I recently scanned: Facebook 1 Facebook 2 Facebook 3 http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
December 2009 I should have graduated UMass in 1988 but coming down with mono and picking up a couple of minors (and a girlfriend) along the way necessitated an extra semester. And really, why leave the Happy Valley in January? So I stayed around waiting for my girl (later my wife) to finish up her …
Covers of the Week 61 & 62 Red and Grey and Mallo Cup Read More »
December 25, 2009 I was saddened to hear of the passing of the great American singer/songwriter, Vic Chesnutt, who passed away last night or early today. Vic’s records had a huge impact on me. I brought out all of the following CDs while we were touring back in the mid-‘90s: West of Rome Little About …
As noted in the below post, the PTMOR blog has been getting around — to the Alps in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland, e.g. I see, via Google Analytics — an amazing tool, by the way — that I have been getting page visits from 44 countries in the past month. We would love to …
Hey all — I did an interview with Swiss radio about the CoTW project. You can listen in. Details below: From Andrea Ragazzo: Sunday, December 13th, at 15:00, and Thursday, December 17th, at 17:00 PM, both Boston time. The channel is: Rete Tre – RSI (Switzerland) (you can listen to it on streaming on this …