Almost everyone seems a bit depressed due to the fact that summer is ending. But I can propose something that might cheer you up during these autumn days and that is to check the winter season program announcements of the venues, concert halls, jazz clubs , theater halls and art galleries that you like to visit. Believe me , wherever you are, you will find many nice concerts, shows and exhibitions and they will keep you warm till next summer...
As Berthold Auerbach once said;
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
And now here is our list for this weekend;
Daniel Johnston - "True Love Will Find You In The End" - [RIP Daniel]
Brazzos & O.K. JAZZ - "Cha Cha Cha del Zombo"
Terry Riley & Kronos Quartet - "Planet Elf Sindoori"
Balthazar - "Fever"
Ziggy Marley- "True To Myself"
Hope you have a great weekend.
nb. You can open the actual youtube page by clicking the name on the upper left side of each video.
Already a month passed since I started the new series on the blog. I am grateful to you as I am receiving comments under the posts meaning that I am not the only one on the blog... Keep up the good work about comments and keep me motivated...
Our song for today is:
"All Along the Watchtower"
This is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and it has been included on most of Dylan's subsequent greatest hits compilations. Since the late 1970s, he has performed it in concert more than any of his other songs.
Dylan recorded "All Along the Watchtower" on November 6, 1967, at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee, the same studio where he had completed Blonde on Blonde in the spring of the previous year. Accompanying Dylan, who played acoustic guitar and harmonica, were two Nashville veterans from the Blonde on Blonde sessions, Charlie McCoy on bass guitar and Kenneth Buttrey on drums. The producer was Bob Johnston, who produced Dylan's two previous albums, Highway 61 Revisited in 1965 and Blonde on Blonde in 1966.
Here are the 3 versions I chose for you;
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "All Along The Watchtower"
Bryan Ferry - "All Along the Watchtower"
Dave Matthews Band - "All Along The Watchtower"
Now the floor is yours, go ahead and make your comments (here, Instagram, Facebook wherever you feel like...).
But before that here is a bonus for my generation that is out of the competition...
U2 - "All Along The Watchtower"
nb. Please note that I intentionally do not include the original versions of the songs as it would be a little unfair to the artists covering the songs, and I am sure that sometimes you will be surprised to see that the songs you thought were the originals are just covers...
Welcome to the 44th post of "Five Songs for the Weekend". I have shared more than 200 songs with you under this title and I really hope you have found a song that you like so far. As you have already noticed by now, I am trying to pick the songs from various genres that could be amazing for a larger musical taste, well of course mine at the top :).
As Alphonse de Lamartine once said;
"Music is the literature of the heart;
it commences where speech ends."
So here is the list for this weekend;
Lana Del Rey - "Doin' Time"
Pixies - "On Graveyard Hill"
Blondie - "Heart Of Glass"
Moby - "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?"
Philip Glass - "Einstein on the Beach"
Hope you have a great weekend.
nb. You can open the actual youtube page by clicking the name on the upper left side of each video.
Here is the third post of the interactive series that recently started on the blog. All you need to do is to listen to the 3 different versions of the song I choose, pick the one that appeals to you the most and leave a comment on why you picked that particular one...You can make your comments here on the blog page (below the post), on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/atiblogger/) or on Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/atiblogger/)...
And our song for today is:
"The Man I Love"
It is a popular standard with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira. It was originally intended to be part of the Gershwins' 1924 musical, "Lady, Be Good", with the title, "The Girl I Love". However this wonderful and timeless song could not become so popular in that era's musicals and was eventually dropped from "Lady, Be Good"...
The Gershwins tried to fit the song in somewhere else after it was dropped from "Lady, Be Good". With the new title, "The Man I Love," it appeared in satirical anti-war show, Strike Up the Band, in 1927 and then again in Flo Ziegfeld's Rosalie in 1928.
There was one person who did like the song, though. Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the great-grandson of Queen Victoria and member of England's high society heard the song when George played it a party. It was not the least bit unusual for George to commandeer a piano at party during the Roaring Twenties and play his catalog of songs. He was not shy about his work or his talent. Lady Mountbatten took a copy of the music back to England and requested that her favorite dance orchestras play it. "The Man I Love" caught fire in London and Paris. Since then, the song is being played by artists from various musical genres.
And now the 3 versions I chose for you;
Hindi Zahra - "The Man I Love"
Kate Bush - "The Man I Love"
Caetano Veloso - "The Man I Love"
For this week, there's a bonus instrumental track for you (out of competition) that I like very much....
Ethan Iverson Quartet - "The Man I Love"
Now the floor is yours, go ahead and make your comments (here, Instagram, Facebook wherever you feel like...).
nb. Please note that I intentionally do not include the original versions of the songs as it would be a little unfair to the artists covering the songs, and I am sure that sometimes you will be surprised to see that the songs you thought were the originals are just covers...
Well, the summer is officially over...Maybe not heat wise but definitely holiday wise...So everyone seems a bit better and not ready to welcome the bleak weather. Therefore I propose you to try to get out of this mood via good music and spending more time outdoors while you still can...
As Jean Paul Richter once said;
"Music is the poetry of the air."
And here is our list for this weekend;
Thelonious Monk Quartet - "Round Midnight"
Florence + The Machine - "Shake It Out"
The Chemical Brothers - "MAH"
Laurie Anderson - "It's Not the Bullet that Kills You (It's the Hole)"
Snarky Puppy - "Bad Kids to the Back"
Hope you have a great weekend.
nb. You can open the actual youtube page by clicking the name on the upper left side of each video.
