Blast IT

[caseyjo]

Whats the last song, Tv Vid, or on-line tune you listened to?..If you cant remember, what do you feel like listening to & if you dont feel like listening to anything, what is one of your all time favorite tunes?..Take your pic.....It's Blast it  time in the old TBd music room tonight.... So hit it peeps This is what I just listened to......It's actually on my profile right now.

[Angharad]

Jack Black just chillin'. Hehehe

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He might be just a shade too subtle for the song.

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Today in Musical History, August 16th:

1962: Pete Best out, Ringo Starr in

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So long, Lucky...

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Cover of the Day:

"Silver Wings", B of "Workin' Man Blues" (#1 C&W,m 8/16/69, Merle Haggard & the Strangers

Marshall Crenshaw, from a various-artist tribute to Merle Haggard, "Tulare Dust"

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Today in Musical History, August 17th:



1959: MIles Davis releases "Kind Of Blue", literally inventing a new musical genre, and forever changing jazz.

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Cover of the Day:



"The Shape I'm In", released on "Stage Fright", 8/17/1970, The Band

The Sadies, with Garth Hudson, from a 2010 various-artist tribute album, "Garth Hudson Presents: A Canadian Celebration Of The Band"

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Today in Musical History, August 18th:

Edith Frost, gentle Texas psychedelia, b. 1964, San Antonio, TX

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Roky Erickson, not-so-gentle Texas psychedelia

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Cover of the Day....It's Monday.



"Morning Dew", Never a single; Debuted by Bonnie Dobson at the Mariposa Folk Festival, Orilla, Ontario, 8/18-19/1961...Many, many covers since then....

The Third Mind, like at KEXP 90.3, Seattle, 1/10/2024

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Today in Musical History, August 19th:

1955: NYC radio station WINS 1010 AM, then home base of that rascal Alan Freed, announces that they will never play white artists' insipid, watered-down covers of songs by black artists.

(Apparently they do not go so far as to add that "Pat Boone can just go out and get a REAL job.")