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:

"Green Light", a track off of Sonic Youth's third album, 1986's "EVOL"

Beck covered it for the "MOJO 300 Anthology" compilation, in 2018

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, May 3rd, 1959: The first Grammy Awards are announced, beginning a long, looooooong tradition of embarrassing irrelevance, artistic ignorance, and grandiose cluelessness that persists to this day.

Far too many to list here, but a personal favorite of mine was the year the Grammys invented a "Best Spanish Language" category, just so they could give the award to industry darling Linda Ronstadt, for her first Spanish-language album -

While completely ignoring literally thousands of Spanish albums, released by hundreds of native Spanish-speaking artists, from not only that particular year, but for all the previous decades.(Los Lobos, for example, had been making Spanish-language albums since the mid '70's; Ronstadt's album won in 1989..)

In fact, the Academy later created the LATIN Grammys, not out of any particular respect for the music itself, but so the Academy could avoid accusations of prejudice - 

And, of course, to exploit the growing interest in Latin music. 

[Angharad]

I agree about the Grammys. It's all (bad) politics.

Yeah, I'd been listening to Latin artists since I was a kid in the 50s. The Brazilian guitar duo Los Indios Tabajaras and Segovia for my classical guitarist dad and brother, Chilean folk singers Violeta Parra and Mercedes Sosa, etc., during my protest years--hehe, and Los Lobos and a passel of others because it's great music. I remember shaking my head in disbelief when Linda Ronstadt won the Grammy. At least she can claim Mexican heritage, but she never spoke Spanish fluently, from what I understand.

[Snagg]

Rob Hirst's daughter Gabriella takes the lead vocal on this, his final recording.

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Cover Of The Day:

"Never No More", released May 1962, by Percy Mayfield

(Ray Charles liked Mayfield's songwriting so much, that Charles signed Mr. Mayfield to an exclusive composing contract for five years, brewing up "Hit The Road, Jack" and "In The Club", among many others.)

Los Lobos' version comes from their 2021 album, "Native Sons"

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Today, in Musical History, May 4th, 1938: Smooth soul man Tyrone Davis b, Greenville, MS

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Cover Of The Day:



"Pipeline", # 4 Pop, 5/4/63 (the Chantays), with a dash of the B-52's "Rock Lobster" added on, by one of hundreds of surf-revivalist bands, the Sandblasters, from their one and only album, "Jupiter Beach" -

Because, Why NOT ? 

[Angharad]

"Pipeline" always brings back endless sunny days of dragging my humongous surfboard over the seawall across from my house on Ocean Blvd. in Coronado, CA, to catch some waves before school. Kowabunga! Happy, happy days.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, May 5th, 1922: Joseph Denton "Jay" Miller, swamp pop and Cajun record and music producer, creator of dozens of genre-specific record labels, and songwriter, b,. Iota, LA...

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Cover Of The Day:



"Blind Willie McTell", recorded 5/5/83, during the sessions for "Infidels", but Dylan couldn't figure out where to put it - So it sat in the Columbia vaults until 1991, when it was released as a part of the "Bootleg Series, Volumes 1-3" box set.

Long recognized as one of Dylan's greatest songs, it's also a perfect example of how inspiration can strike an artist, at it's own time and place, generating something wonderful - even when it baffles the artist themselves.