Happy New Year!  Over the weekend, we have added some fascinating items to the stream: The soundtrack to ‘Here At The Water’s Edge,’ a cult movie that was released in 1963.  The ‘music’ was recorded in and around Manhattan.  If you would like to learn more, CLICK HERE.  Back in ’63, liner notes were really [...]

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Better Days And you ask me what I want this year And I try to make this kind and clear Just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days Cause I don’t need boxes wrapped in strings And designer love and empty things Just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days So take these [...]

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Sally Oldfield Night Of The Hunter\’s Moon

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“Night of the Hunters” by Tori Amos.  Her music has always been difficult to categorize, this is the concept album she’s always been destined to make.  It combines classical touches from among others, Chopin, Shubert and Bach with mythological nods that feature a Star Whisperer and a Fire Muse.  Fine and interesting music. “Let Them [...]

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The colors of Autumn are getting ready to burst out here in Northern Vermont; you can see the difference in just the past two or three days. Shorter days, cooler nights, leaves. It’s the greatest time of the year to come and appreciate this miracle. And when the Autumnal Equinox arrives, we’ll spend a couple [...]

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…this dispels it.  Lady Gaga is one of the HUGE talents of this generation.  She joined Tony Bennett in the studio to record the newest version of Rogers & Hart’s “The Lady Is A Tramp.” I always admired Lady Gaga’s marketing prowess, but it took the intuitive, intelligent ear of a young man who lives [...]

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Osheaga was a name used for the area that is now Montreal by some of the first European settlers in the region. The name is said to originate from Jacques Cartier when he met the Mohawks near the Lachine rapids in what is now Montreal. But so the Mohawk oral history goes the white man [...]

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‘Codes & Keys,’ the latest album from Death Cab for Cutie, the Washington State band that’s getting some pretty good airplay.  By the way, they got their name from a song performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band from the Beatles’ 1967 file ‘Magical Mystery Tour.’ Solid, fairly gentle rock. ‘Ramble at the Ryman’ [...]

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Press the play button at 1:16 and sing along.  Then click on the stream for 3+ hours of songs celebrating the arrival of Summer. Happy Solstice! \”Summer\’s Here\” by James Taylor Summer’s here, I’m for that. Got my rubber sandals, got my straw hat. Got my cold beer, I’m just glad that it’s here. Summer’s [...]

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