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Category Archives: Music Fridays
Music Fridays: Louis Armstrong
The LP cover art to ‘Louis Armstrong and His Friends’ originally issued in 1970 on Flying Dutchman Record, shown here is the Philips pressing (most likely the possible European version) Towards the end of Armstrong’s career, his doctors had forbidden him from playing his trumpet, but not singing. So in 1970, Armstrong found himself in [...]
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Tagged as: Bob Thiele, Impulse, Louis Armstrong, Music Fridays, Pharaoh Sanders
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Music Fridays: Caetano Veloso
‘Tropicália’ was a short lived Brazilian movement from the late 1960′s, with one of the main participants being Caetano Veloso. At the time of recording this LP (image above) Veloso was detained under the current decree of the Brazilian military dictatorship’s AI-5 law. Only the vocals were recorded, with accompaniment from fellow Tropicalismo detainee Gilberto Gil [...]
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Tagged as: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Music Fridays, Tropicália
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Music Fridays: Mission of Burma
There is something about musical ‘missing links’ that music buffs (see High Fidelity) can’t get enough of. Given half the chance, they will talk your ear off pointing out countless overlooked pioneering musical genres/eras/artists like Nick Drake, Gil Scott Heron, Krautrock, Post-Punk, Ska, CBGBs, Grunge, Detroit Techno, or Northern Soul. When Seattle group ‘Nirvana’ burst onto the [...]
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Tagged as: CBGBs, Detroit Techno, Gil Scott Heron, Grunge, High Fidelity, Krautrock, Michael Azerrad, Mission of Burma, Music Fridays, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Post-Punk, Sex Pistols, Ska
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Music Fridays: Aaron Copland’s ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’
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Music Fridays: Herbie Hancock – Jazz Fusion Cantelope Island
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Music Friday (Bonus Round) Buckwheat zydeco – Jambalaya French
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Music Fridays: Steely Dan – Lonely Teardrops
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Music Fridays: Television
While 1977 is know as a prominent year for the burgeoning Punk movement, it’s foundations can be traced to the pioneering CBGB’s venue in New York. From 1973 CBGB’s began hosting rock gigs that later became the launching pad for The Ramones, Television, Patti Smith, Blondie, and Talking Heads among others. ‘Marquee Moon‘ the debut [...]
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Tagged as: Elektra Records, Marquee Moon, Music Fridays, Richard Lloyd, Television, Tom Verlaine
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Music Friday – Yello
It’s been a while since I have posted a track for Music Fridays on Solid Principles. Lately I’ve been slowly buying up 7 inch vinyl releases of MX-80 and Yello issued on Ralph Records via EBay. This item arrived during the week, and given the antics of a certain Alaskan bus tourist, this song seemed [...]
Goodbye Captain Beefheart
If Don Van Vliet’s life could summed up in an expression, it would be “People Never Noticed’. The music business collective sucked up, and spat out his Captain Beefheart persona, then the art-world never elevated him to the heights he deserved. In retrospect, after dying at the age of 69 from multiple sclerosis, Don may finally [...]
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Tagged as: Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, Music
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