This weekend brings the Newport Folk Festival, and Nat'l Public Radio will be streaming many of the performances live from the not-that-folky concert. This year, the Festival added acts not normally known as folk performers, so listen for sets from Richie Havens, Cowboy Junkies, Steve Earle, and Jakob Dylan (whose dad Bob got booed there in [...]~~
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--- - |- First, please accept our apologies for the random changes in the appearance of this site over the next few weeks. I'm trying to make it more interesting to look at, but since I am woefully ignorant of web design, things could get a little funky looking for awhile, while I tutorial myself through various issues. Any missing links will be shortly fixed, also.Now.I promised last week I...
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The Cowboy Junkies cover one of Dylan's lesser known gems. "License To Kill" is a beautiful tragedy, a poignant smoldering meditation on a world of technological nightmares & young souls fried in the Fat Of The Land. A timeless lament set in an anonymous but vaguely sparse landscape of small dreams & simple lives, the narrator struggles to see the world through the faceless woman's eyes but ...
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ok...that chat room was kind of lame...or i didnt like it anyway...so here is my Yahoo IM for anyone who wants it...i have just discovered they have this 'Doodle IMViorment' where you can draw pictures while you are chatting....it makes me so happy!!so I am xbwhx on the Yahoo IM thingy....i am not on often, but I will be on for awhile tonight, and I would love to hear from any of you...even Brit!
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"...but My Aim is Getting Better."That's the title of "*a book*":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671897500/mikewebersweberw which, for want of a better word, i'll call a screwball suspense novel, and it's also the title of the song that the heroine of the book is writing.*Sarah Shankman* (who has a series of mysteries about reporter Samantha Adams, as well) writes books in which *everyt...
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I had another one of those vivid soundtrack flashbacks yesterday in the car on the way to work. Michelle was dropping me off, we were listening to our favorite station 100.3 when "Sweet Jane" came on the radio. How I loved this song when I first heard it in high school. The Cowboy Junkies were my band. I tried telling everyone I knew about this band but they all knew me as the guy who likes "we...
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Aaahh sundayTV day weather you watch football, nascar, or like me, the travel channel. A cool bevrage and a heaping bowl of your favorite crunchable. Sunday Rocks! when all the relaxation gets too much you can always take a nap. cause after all this is the last day of freedom until next saturday. So with a mello half stoned kind of peace going on I dedicate this song to Sunday.
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I rediscovered the magic from the holy sessions when The Cowboy Junkies went back with Trinity Revisited last year. The Junkies invited Vic Chestnutt, Natalie Merchant and Ryan Adams to sit on the band and replay the songs from the original sessions in the same church where they recorded Trinity Sessions ten years earlier in 1987.One of the best songs from these new sessions is Ryan Adams takin...
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This is quite an amazing album. Recorded at a time when digital recording was coming to the fore, it's as crystal quiet and winter's night beautiful as anything I've heard. It was recorded live in a church with a single microphone, in one day. It's a mix of covers and original which should be required listening for each of us.
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The Cowboy Junkies return to the scene of the crime and re-record the album that put them on the map. Check out the new version of "I Don't Get It."
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I know everyones gonna come down hard on me for this one, but if this song doesn't define Grams life, I don't know what does, and you gotta admit, the song rocks! One of the best offerings from the cowboy junkies period!
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http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/exclusives/trinity/main_content.htmlCheck it out - 20 years after the original was recorded, they've reinterpreted it beautifully all over again with some assistance from Natalie Merchant and Ryan Adams. Loved their version of Sweet Jane 20 years ago, and it so good yet again.http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/exclusives/trinity/images/video_on.gif
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Lyrics ByRichard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart,"I only want to sayThat if there is a wayI want my baby back with me'cause he's my true loveMy only one don't you see?And on that fateful dayPerhaps in the new sun of MayMy baby walks back into my armsI'll keep him beside meForever from harmYou see I was afraidTo let my baby strayI kept him too tightly by my sideAnd then one sad dayHe went away and he di...
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As a latecomer to the whole iTunes thing, I've just finally started uploading my music collection over the past few weeks. And tonight, I finally hit the 1,000 song milestone! (Only 20,000 more to go....)The song that did it: The Cowboy Junkies' "Misguided Angel." Hm...does that mean my use of iTunes is misguided, too? I don't think so...in fact, after resisting it for so long, I'm surprised at...
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