Some Albums really stood out for one reason or another, but never seemed to get the recognition they deserved. This is one.
Naturally, this is an open thread too.
Hey, it's songday. Today I pick a song that I believe warrants it and publish an assortment of the covers of that song by various persons and or groups. Pick a few that a new to you and have a listen. It is also, of course, an open thread to talk about anything you feel like.
Today's song is: Smokestack Lightning.
Howlin' Wolf 1956
Welcome to Street Prophets Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. First off thanks to Ojibwa for getting coverage for my Coffee Hours while I was struggling to get well. Not 100% but doing better.
Honey, you lied...and I had no reason to doubt you
All this talk of fake news reminds me of my own list of "don't trust 'em!!"
Washington Post
New York Times
HuffPo
Esquire
dKos
NPR
MSNBC
Salon (!)
Digby (!)
Michael Moore (woo-hoo!)
Shaz and I are having computer problems (means we $#%$ed up a bit) so I'm going to use something I originally posted at Wimpy Badger in 2007. I'll update some of it!
In my intermittent ongoing OT series on visual populist? art I have now arrived at the beginning point that triggered both this series and my graphic art so called career. The Russians are coming! Not now but then. So I was sick of being a waitress and went to art school as I was a half ass good artist who wanted to make a buck or two.
This, then, is about Graham Nash, a guy from Manchester, England who's gotten fairly famous.
First music, then politics.
As we all know, the history of music began in 1956. However there was music before then. We've been able to figure out what it sounded like, thanks to rock carvings.
Today we'll talk about some of this pre-historic music... the Western Civ kind.
A lute, a flute and ...
