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MasonJar

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over 2 years ago

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      Songs You Should Be Listening To

      • Killing the Blues by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
      • Your Long Journey by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

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      • Mogger Since

        July 17, 2007

      • Age

        42

      • Whereabouts

        Darn near Boulder, CO

      • Currently Reading

        Anna Karenina

      • Why the hell am I reading Anna Karenina

        Like Mt. Everest, it was there

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      • Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez

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      Coleman Hawkins Channels "Mood Indigo"
      about 1 year ago

      With all of the jazz albums out there that have titles like "Such-and-such Meets Such-and-such" — "The Count Meets the Duke", "Lionel Meets the Duke", "Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson", "Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins", etc., etc. — I'd like to see something a bit out of the norm, something like "Duke Ellington Meets Dwight D. Eisenhower". There would be the famous photo of Ike, bef

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      Isaac Hayes-styled funk
      about 1 year ago

      Isaac Hayes, along with David Porter, was responsible for about 165% of Stax Records' brilliant output in the 60s. Without those Stax records, the world would be a not-as-good place. Along those lines, the world just might be a tad less funky without Isaac Hayes' 1969 album Hot Buttered Soul. The whole album is tremendous, but "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" is the tune that most mesmerize...

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      Actually, I can stand the rain, and I love this song.
      about 1 year ago

      Old School C posted a fantastic version of "I Can't Stand the Rain" by Ann Peebles, which instantly started Cassandra Wilson's version playing in my head. She's accompanied solely by the National steel guitar of the late Chris Whitley. The combination of Wilson's almost mournful phrasing and that sound of Whitley's National guitar played with a slide gives this version a nearly haunting quality.

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