The closest I have ever gotten to liking anything that might be construed as heavy metal was the hard rock of the 1970s like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and maybe the first or second outer rings into the 1980s like Motorhead. These were bands still rooted in the blues somewhat. And even Lemmy provides some semblance …
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.
Mark has posted some songs from the Nick Flynn/Buff Tom set a couple of weeks ago: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKS6h0KvjQo] Also, we have contributed a live track to this cause:www.righttracktunes.org Buffalo Tom “Thrown”live from the last Somerville Theater show, download for Target Cancer benefit. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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 …
[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