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Grex > Music2 > #289: NP #7: Music to Conference By | |
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raven
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response 366 of 420:
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Jul 23 03:38 UTC 2001 |
Is that new Bjork? How is it?
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orinoco
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response 367 of 420:
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Jul 23 04:34 UTC 2001 |
"No Quarter" does have some pretty kick-ass hurdy gurdy.
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raven
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response 368 of 420:
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Jul 23 13:06 UTC 2001 |
Orin you are on the last couple of days, any sentence that contains hurdy
gurdy and "kick ass," is a keeper. :-)
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krj
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response 369 of 420:
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Jul 23 19:35 UTC 2001 |
Makes sense to me, but I used to collect hurdy gurdy albums.
NP: Runrig, "The Stamping Ground." Their new album, out for a couple
months. Getting dropped by their major label (Chrysalis) seems to have
done them a lot of good; as usual with Runrig there are a couple of
slow ballads I can skip. (Ah, for those who don't know the band:
Scottish arena rock band with a small amount of folk influence:
some songs use bagpipes, and some songs are in Gaelic.)
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tpryan
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response 370 of 420:
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Jul 23 22:51 UTC 2001 |
Billy Joel, the Millenium concert, two CD set. I am glad I
bought it at a discount price (look for it at Borders Outlet for $9.99)
instead of the original $30 or more. Just not a treat for me as
much as other live releases (CD/VHS).
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krj
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response 371 of 420:
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Jul 24 01:38 UTC 2001 |
"Triki 1: Diatonic Dynamite." Anthology of the accordion & tambourine
folk style of the Basque region, with some pop influences on some of
the recordings. Probably for accordion fans only.
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ea
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response 372 of 420:
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Jul 24 22:58 UTC 2001 |
(where is the Borders Outlet)
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ea
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response 373 of 420:
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Jul 24 22:59 UTC 2001 |
(add missing ? at end of last response)
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krj
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response 374 of 420:
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Jul 25 16:13 UTC 2001 |
Xose' Manuel Budino, "Paralaia." Spanish/Galician bagpipe player,
with support from some Breton and Basque musicians I'm fond of.
Part of yesterday's Big Box.
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tpryan
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response 375 of 420:
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Jul 25 16:23 UTC 2001 |
There is a Borders Outlet on Ford Road in Canton. In the mall
with the Kohls in it.
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krj
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response 376 of 420:
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Jul 25 16:38 UTC 2001 |
((Usually I roll this item on a six-month cycle, at the beginning of
the year and at its midpoint. But I completely forgot about it in
early July! I'll roll this item over at the beginning of August.))
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micklpkl
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response 377 of 420:
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Jul 26 01:18 UTC 2001 |
Kate Rusby, covering Iris DeMent's "Our Town" (which I've always fancied was
a song about Austin. I know I'm probably wrong, but still can't help myself.)
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krj
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response 378 of 420:
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Jul 26 05:37 UTC 2001 |
Richard & Mimi Farina: "Pack Up Your Sorrows, the Best of the Vanguard
Years" (which was all the years they had). Bought because I'm too lazy
to dig out the LPs. Remastering is very good; about half of it is
very dated.
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krj
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response 379 of 420:
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Jul 26 23:05 UTC 2001 |
The Dikanda MP3s I described elsewhere -- Polish band playing a range
of Eastern European music. Exceptionally good, I really hope Leslie
can find this CD for me.
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tpryan
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response 380 of 420:
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Jul 27 00:58 UTC 2001 |
A 2 CD set, Skiffle, as good as it gets". The print is so
small on the back though, I would have to get out the microscope
to see which title is on right now.
Skiffle is like an English version of Jug band music.
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krj
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response 381 of 420:
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Jul 27 02:25 UTC 2001 |
Ooooh! Where did you get that?? Skiffle was very important in the
formative period of the British folk revival of the 1960s.
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micklpkl
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response 382 of 420:
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Jul 27 02:32 UTC 2001 |
Yes, I appreciate hearing about this as well. Roy Harper began his career in
music playing in a skiffle band, and I've always wanted to hear exactly what
that sounded like.
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dbratman
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response 383 of 420:
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Jul 27 16:42 UTC 2001 |
Skiffle is also supposedly what some guy named John Lennon started out
playing, and I too have always wondered what it sounded like.
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orinoco
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response 384 of 420:
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Jul 27 17:10 UTC 2001 |
<nods> It's interesting to hear Skiffle described as "folk revival" music,
as I also always assumed it sounded like early Beatles.
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scott
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response 385 of 420:
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Jul 27 17:37 UTC 2001 |
Apparently skiffle was sort of the punk rock of its day. Not in attitude,
but because it was so easy to play a whole lot of teens started forming bands.
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eeyore
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response 386 of 420:
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Jul 27 18:58 UTC 2001 |
Well, I wandered into RecordTown today, and rooted through their 1.99 bin.
My current onplay cd is from that bin, a band that I had never heard of, but
the name (and it was cheep!) persuaded me to purchase it.
Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins. The name of the album is Sluggo! So far
I'm only a couple of songs into it, but I'm really enjoying it. Scott, you
would probably get a real kick out of it.
I don't know how to describe the music exactly...deffinately rock, but the
second sound was a real cool piano theme going, the lyrics are seriously
wacked....I'll describe more later.
Oh, and on the back of the book, it says "For Kevin Gilbert & John Coltrane".
Needless to say, I know who the latter is, but nhave no idea who the former
is.
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krj
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response 387 of 420:
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Jul 27 20:38 UTC 2001 |
resp:384 :: No, I wrote that skiffle was important in the formation
of the British folk revival; skiffle has little direct folk music
content itself. But lots of people who started playing skiffle
moved into folk music after the skiffle craze -- which I think lasted
less than two years -- burned itself out.
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scott
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response 388 of 420:
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Jul 28 03:05 UTC 2001 |
Nick Strange Trio, "Surrounded by Each Other". It's finally out!
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eeyore
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response 389 of 420:
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Jul 28 06:06 UTC 2001 |
Still Beer for Dolphins. I like this cd....it's rockish and jazzy, and really
really whacked.
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tpryan
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response 390 of 420:
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Jul 28 17:48 UTC 2001 |
I found the Skiffle 2 CD set at Borders (Aborland, I think, so a
copy might be on shelves downtown). The title is all lowercase
"as good as it gets". It is a 2000 collection from Disky Communications
Europe B. V. Artists listed (in print large enough to read) include
Chris Barber, Johnny Duncan, Lonnie Donegan, The Vipers and Chas
McDevitt.
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