An older fella like me gets excited about stuff like this: I recorded, trimmed, an uploaded this video to my blog all from the iPhone. Someone requested this one. Make a donation to a charity. Please. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev5p7ic-XV8] – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
As I touched on in this post way back when, music is about the closest I get to religion. But when its hits me, it gets me deep and brings me to church. There might not be a more perfect distillation of this feeling than Van Morrison’s “In The Garden,” this week’s CoTW.
June 2010 No big essay/diatribe/rant this week. I’ve been mostly in negativeland and do not wish to sew bad vibes. I do enough of that. And anyway, I wrote a bit about the author of this week’s cover, Jesse Winchester, back in this post. Buy the record for chrissakes. I also have a great version …
Man, it’s been a bad week. Seeing Scott Brown take over the Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for over 40 years was tough to watch. But it was also inevitable, I suppose. Boston is not completely unique in this respect, I suppose, but as an outsider (I have only been here for over 27 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …