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:



"Six More Miles To The Graveyard", another Hank Williams weeper, released September, 1948, as the B side to "I Saw The Light"

Covered by SoCal wiseasses Camper Van Beethoven, a leftover that was eventually released on their 1993 odds n' ends collection, "Camper Vantiquities"

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, September 6th, 1972: Dave Sitek, musician, producer and arranger, b. Columbia, MD

Sitek has worked with TV On The Radio, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Weezer, Foals, and dozens of others; he gets around.

This song comes from Sitek's 2010 solo album, calling himself "Maximum Balloon", with his TVOTR pal Tunde Adebimpe.

[Angharad]

I didn't think anybody was born in Columbia, MD. Nice.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Give Peace A Chance", #14 Pop, 9/6/1969 (John Lennon)

Johnny Harris, a Scots composer, musical director and producer, he did arrangements for performers such as Petula Clark, Tom Jones, Lulu, etc, etc, and took a swing at Lennon's plea for peace, from Harris' 1970 album "Movements"

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, September 12th, 1956: Barry Andrews, songwriter, singer and musician, keyboardist for XTC, the League of Gentlemen, Restaurant For Dogs, and Shriekback, b. West Norwood, London, England

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Settin' The Woods On Fire" (Fred Rose / E.G. Nelson), released 9'/12/1952 (#4 C&W, 11/1/1952), Hank Williams

Little Richard does what he always does, on his 1971 album, "King Of Rock & Roll"

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, September 13th, 2010: Robert Plant releases his 12th solo album, named after his pre-Zeppelin, Black Country psychedelic band of the '60's, "Band Of Joy".

Mostly an album of radically reinvented covers, there were a few originals, such as this song, composed with Buddy Miller:

[Angharad]

I love it when Mr. Plant does American roots music. 

[Snagg]

[Angharad]

My kind of one-man-band.