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]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 13th:

1942: James Carr one of the great soul shouters, b. Coahoma, MS

 

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[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 14th:

1931: Autry DeWalt Mixon, AKA Jr Walker, b. Blytheville, AR

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[Aggie]

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Today in Musical History, June 15th:

1843: Edvard Grieg, composer and pianist, b. Bergen, Sweden-Norway

"I am sure that my music has a taste of codfish in it." - Edvard Grieg

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 16th:

1965: "Like A Rolling Stone" has a difficult birth; Dylan spent several days tearing his hair out, grinding out over 30 takes while trying to bring the song together during unusually chaotic sessions at Columbia Studios -

Until Al Kooper came up with the organ riff, the song went from 3/4 time to 4/4 time, and BOOM - "The Greatest Song Of All Time", according to Rolling Stone magazine, and quite a few people who supposedly know about such things.

[Angharad]

Classic. Love the backstory.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 17th:

1805: Christian Friederich Ludwig Buschmann, b. Friederichroda, Thuringia. Buschmann is credited with - or blamed - for inventing the accordion, sometime in 1822.

There does not appear to be any scholarly research into why the accordion is so polarizing; So many people hate it, while a much fewer percentage are okay with it, or actually enjoy it, Personally, I suspect that it has something to do with accordion music's long association with countries and cultures that seem to lean towards fascism - the Germanic / Prussian regions, Russia, and 1950's America, as well as countries with occasionally unsavory reputations to the American ear: France, Ireland, the Scandinavian countries; countries seen as snooty, fusty, backwards, hidebound, and generally Not Cool.

I myself was no fan of the accordion, until I discovered the musics of Mexico, Louisiana and others who recognized the instruments' value as an ingredient, a seasoning, and not as the main meal itself.