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dermahrk says: We are being overtaken by the Pod People - the Mog Music Network. Bloggers who don't post tunes or videos, have nothing to say and say it endlessly, and don't interact. They suck. I have to agree. We seem to be overrun of late by self-aggrandizing links to posts of little or no interest. (to be fair, some of them are very interesting), but the point is.....I guess its becoming depersonalized or something. So many provide links to their works of w... MORE
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Its attractive and fitting title borrowed from the name of an old Alan Freed radio show, "Moondog Matinee" was definitely not the album that a majority of The Band's fans and critics were anticipating. The group had enjoyed mass success with their first three albums, but their fourth, 1971's "Cahoots," was undeservedly regarded as a disappointment. And when compared to the immense praise that went to those first three releases, it wasn't hard to see that The Band were quic... MORE
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The Band's unique experiences as roadhouse warriors with Ronnie Hawkins, and rock n roll icons with Dylan, helped shape an appreciation for many styles of music. And these myriad sounds from the heartland to the streets of New Orleans were echo'd in the Band's own music and the somgs they chose to cover. Rick Danko's reading of this Lee Dorsey nugget has that quavering, nervous, vulnerable element that so completements the lyric.Garth Hudson overdubs the horns, but the p... MORE
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Richard Manuel's haunting sad falsetto was one of the great sounds in rock n roll. His almost sublimnal humming adds an etheral eerie touch to the Band's Masterpiece "The Weight". A powerful, soulful vocalist with a natural growl as well as an angelic falsetto, he took the lead on many notable Band tracks. "King Harvest Has Surely Come", "I Shall Be Released", and so many other lyric were brought to life by Richard's evocotive vocal. By the Time of the Band's recording ... MORE
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Post Civil War America saw the first great internal migration in it's population. Southern populations, displaced or freed by the war were drifting north to feed the labor supply for the emerging industrial revolution.Farmers and farmhands and fieldworkers were trading in their horses and plows for the grind of the factory in the city.And the Country's various regional musical styles were meeting and interbreeding and mixing and matching and swirling and bubbling and formi... MORE
