Johnny Cash Is a Hero to Americans on the Left and Right. But His Music Took a Side. ( slate.com )
In July and August of 1961, Johnny Cash recorded a batch of songs that became the basis for Blood, Sweat and Tears, a record many regard as merely a concept album about working people. But Blood, Sweat and Tears is a concept album about race in America, about the violent enforcement of racial hierarchies in America. It is the...
Charlie Daniels Band - Uneasy Rider ( piped.video )
Mac Davis - Lucas was a Redneck ( piped.video )
Black Friday ( open.spotify.com )
Jason Aldean's 'Small Town' is part of a long legacy with a very dark side ( www.npr.org )
Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” which ignited controversy this week over claims that the song and its new video promote white supremacy and violence, is far from the first country song to attack cities using racist dog whistles. “Try That” is most clearly a descendant of Hank Williams Jr.‘s “A Country...
A Heavy Metal Legend Secretly Wrote One of Johnny Cash's Best Songs ( www.wearethepit.com )
Beast In The Field -Wakan Tanka ( drive.google.com )
Stoner music, eh?
SUBliminal ( open.spotify.com )
The 100 most important dancehall tracks of all time ( djmag.com )
I love BTTJ so much!!! ( soundcloud.com )
Every time I listen to BENEATH THE TOXIC JUNGLE by Rav I wish I would listen to it more often… If you haven’t yet, give it a listen!...
Tony Bennett, Amy Winehouse - Body and Soul ( piped.video )
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on co-authoring book with Tony Bennett ( www.npr.org )
Lot of great details in here, including bits about Bennett’s service in WWII and how Simon’s parents singing and doing stand up comedy in the 1960s led to him being introduced to Bennett, but mainly this just does a good job of capturing what a nice and humble dude Tony Bennett was
Legendary Singer Tony Bennett Dies at 96 ( apnews.com )
Tony Bennett, US singer with seven-decade career, dies aged 96 ( www.theguardian.com )
How would you define proto shoegaze? - lemmy.studio ( lemmy.studio )
Life Goes On - Foreign Air ( open.spotify.com )
Macho Man Slim Jim REMIX - The Remix Bros ( vid.puffyan.us )
The Detail - Delta Sleep ( open.spotify.com )
Warm Animal - Sure Sure ( open.spotify.com )
Barely any posts and no rules means I get to post a Spotify playlist right? ( open.spotify.com )
Here’s my list of songs I would walk out to if I was a big league baseball pitcher
Britpop: What prompted the end of the genre that gave us Blur and Pulp? (BBC News) ( www.bbc.com )
This summer, some of Britpop’s biggest bands are back on the road....
Hilary Hahn – Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for solo violin ( www.deutschegrammophon.com )
Not a classical aficionado or even one for solo violin, but I gave this a listen while on a walk and it kinda blew me away....
Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs and the conplicated response to "Fast Car" ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Interesting read on not just Fast Car but diversity in country music.
From nightmare ticketing to online abuse, being a pop fan is becoming miserable (Kate Solomon, The Guardian) ( www.theguardian.com )
From nightmare ticketing to online abuse, being a pop fan is becoming miserable...