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.

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Oh Well", #55 Pop, 3/14/1970 (Fleetwood Mac)

Covered by Black Pistol Fire, Toronto-by-way-of-Austin duo, from their eponymous  2011 debut album

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, March 15th, 1932: Arif Mardin, b. Istanbul, Turkey.

The man who wrote and arranged the string charts for Aretha's "You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman", about as sublime as music gets, he spent 30 years behind various recording consoles with guys like Jerry Wexler, and Tom Dowd, in the process creating "The Atlantic Sound" during Ahemt and Neshui Ertegun's reign at Atlantic Records.

[Angharad]

I appreciate these looks behind the scenes.

[Snagg]

[Angharad]

This is wonderful. I'd never heard Tinariwen or any Tuareg/Berber band, as far as I know. I saved and shared this. Thanks.

[Snagg]

The story of how North African musicians make music, share it through cell phone technology, and struggle against islamic fundaloonies should be an inspiration to Western musicians about what SERIOUS oppression and state-sponsored censorship looks like; Tinariwen used to have to take the long way around Syria when touring, because they were told that, if they flew through Syrian airspace, Assad would shoot down any plane they were on, and the hell with any other passengers. 

A US band that can't get their music played on American radio because it criticizes Trump, or Project 2025, or evangelical christianity, or ICE, IS a shitty thing to have to deal with here in the "Land of the Free", but I think that too many artists have no idea just how bad the state CAN crack down on them. There is no doubt in my mind that Trump and MAGA would LOVE to have a Pinochet / al-Sisi / Stalinist police state , where all protest against the Big Man In Charge can and will be dealt with permanently, and instantly.

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"I Got A Line ON You", # 25 Pop, 3/15/69 (Spirit)

Rambunctious cover by Athen's the Woggles, from their 2005 b-sides collection "Soul-Sizzling 7: Meltdown"

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, March 16th, 1967: Otis Redding and Carla Thomas release "King & Queen"

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Cover Of The Day:



"Everything I Do Gohn Be Funky (From Now On)" (Allen Toussaint); Never charted,; released 3/1970, by Don Covay

Hip-grinding cover by Big Easy standby Stanton Moore, from his 2017 album "With You In Mind: The Songs of Allen Toussaint" 

[Angharad]

Allen Toussaint, another multi-talented, influential, business savvy artist from New Orleans. I really admire how he rebuilt his world after Katrina.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, March 17th, 1967: Sheila Bromberg becomes the first woman to perform on a Beatles song, as she contributes harp, during the recording of "She's Leaving Home".