So, in a stroke of genius, knowing I would be gone all day, I turned my AC off to “save money.” Bad idea on one of the hottest days of the year. The AC is now groaning in the back yard attempting to cool the house below 80 degrees, and I am sitting in my …
Music
RIP, Gene Ludwig
Was driving this morning and listening to WDUQ, and heard something that just blew my doors off: Sadly, Gene Ludwig died last night. I just love some organ. Check out this version with the Bill Warfield Big Band. It’ like Nelson Riddle meets the Hammond B3. It’s just awesome.
Early Morning Open Thread
Two final patriotic musical videos, because it’s still the holiday weekend for some of us: __ __ __ __ __ (Thanks to commentor Brad Hanon for the Etheridge link!)
America the Beautiful
A bunch of people in the Star Spangled Banner thread mentioned that they thought the national anthem should be America the Beautiful (I mostly agree). I’m not so crazy about the Ray Charles version everyone loves, but I found this bizarre celebrity singalong version of it, led by Willie Nelson, part of a 9/11 fundraiser …
Happy July 4th!
As I’ve mentioned before, this is by far my favorite rendition of the national anthem. Tell me what yours is in the comments, if you have one.
Early Evening Open Thread
__ __ The Battlefield Band does a version of ‘Fortunate Son’ with bagpipes, but I can’t find it on YouTube, and besides, there’s no sound on this old laptop. So y’all get the Braille version. The Spousal Unit and I are gonna watch the fireworks over Lake Champlain tonight. We first started dating over a …
Early Morning Open Thread
Since it’s the weekend, finally… __ __ (Note to the purists: Yes, the ‘song’ is sufficiently bad that I considered using the tag ‘Assholes’ instead of ‘Music’. But the visuals made me LOL. And if you look at the last couple posts… there are some things innocent blog-readers shouldn’t be greeted by, first thing on …