...i loved the bravia balls commercial, and this one is likeable too...
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
...everybody needs a buddy...
...nobody sings across the working man's point of view quite like ry cooder - his newest cd"My Name is Buddy" takes him back to the depression days of Boomer's Story and Into the Purple Valley!
...just give a listen to this cooder tune
"My Name is Buddy" revisits those themes of displacement, disenfranchisement, deteriorating democracy - but through the story of a band of friends.
Part allegory, part picaresque adventure, the album continues Cooder's examination of a disappearing America, in this case the vanishing American "working man". "Nowadays nobody wants to be called a 'working man' - an SUV driver maybe - but not a working man." But what happened to this message of unity? Of solidarity? Of fairness or justice? What happened to the notion, "we are many, they are few."? These questions put Cooder on a path revisiting the place where so many of those old stories and struggles have been stowed away for safe-keeping; the country's foundation of music - its songs of praise, of sorrow, of work, of protest, of celebration. "What do poor people sing about? Death, Jesus, Mother and what happened today. They lived in poverty or worked in the mill and got their fingers chopped off - something horrible like that - but they carried that music along with them."
"Many of these songs had a warning to the 'working man' folded in - especially those 19th Century songs in three-quarter time. It was the very reason for singing. Those songs were about topical things. They were vehicles for people who had a point to get across," says Cooder. "Otherwise, there is no point in doing it."
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
...sneaking sally down the alley...
...there's something about that southern funk...little feat, bonnie raitt, and listen to this robert palmer medley... (it's a big one!) - lowell george, robert palmer, allen toussaint
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