Following Bill (fossilapostle’s) lead, I’ll play along with the “music meme” that’s making the rounds. Go to Pop Culture Madness and check out the songs from the year in which you turned 18 (1984 for me, if anyone cares). Bold…
Fat, feminist lesbian from Arkansas tops British magazine’s “cool list”
Beth Ditto’s music (the group’s name is Gossip) isn’t quite my thing, but I’m tickled by the fact that she’s totally unapologetic by who she is. I feel some kinship with her about having a big voice, too. Some of…
Musicality
Are you tone deaf? How’s your tonal memory? My score was 94.3%. What’s yours?
Merle Haggard – America First
Give it a listen, even if you think you don’t like country music. It lacks the tiresome “my country right or wrong” pseudo-patriotism!
Maybe I should watch the video
“Take off your emotional clothes and sing”
I don’t want to lose this quote, so here it is. Using a vivid metaphor that acknowledged the scariness of the enterprise, she explained, “We have to find the courage to take off our emotional clothes.” Ms. Cook elaborated on…
Needed: Hebrew Speaker With a Good Singing Voice for Recording Project
A dear friend is recording a CD of original music and needs a singer. Someone in the Pacific Northwest (US) would be good, but my friend is willing to travel for this project. This person needs to be “willing to…
The Man They Called Joss!
Firefly filk by the Bedlam Bards Edited to add: That link is gone, but you can hear “The Ballad of Joss” at https://bedlambards.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-drift.
Ouch!
“Rather like watching someone acting as their own cover band.” —mrpsyklops
Gah!
Back in 2001, someone posted a filk to rec.music.filk that she’d written about the season 5 (?) Buffy finale. It was to the tune of Annie’s Song. I know that I saved the lyrics to my hard drive, but I…