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And the evening commute, just to keep things even:

I'd Still be the Same - Dulaham
Further on up the Road - Eric Clapton
Whip It - Devo
Born Under a Bad Sign - Koko Taylor & Buddy Guy
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Lots of Drops of Brandy - The Chieftains
Pick a Bale of Cotton - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Balto - Enter The Haggis
Heist - Lindsey Stirling
Rescue Me - Bell Book & Candle
Our House - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Over the Mountain - The Glengarry Bhoys
Putting the Damage On - Tori Amos
Crawling King Snake - The Doors
The Saga Begins - Weird Al
One Small Girl - Once On This Island London Cast
The Abduction from the Seraglio - Mozart
Let It Go - The Piano Guys
I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
If I Could Reach Your Heart - Cirque de Soleil
Kilted Yaksmen Anthem - Ren & Stimpy
Circle - Sarah McLachlan

So sometime, back in the middle of our moving attempt, I lost much of my music collection due to two hard drives failing. It's been a slow process of re-building it, re-ripping most of my CDs, but it's finally done - and then the ipod died, but that's been fixed too. Today I got to listen to my own music collection on my commute for the first time in over a year (very thankful I had Hamilton to tide me over in the meantime). Today's random playlist:

Kepplehall/25kts - Capercaillie
Captain America - Ashley MacIsaac
Fonn - Salsa Celtica
Evil Hearted Me - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Jump at the Sun - Scythian
Red House - Buddy Guy
Let My Love Open the Door - Pete Townshend
Jacobites - Scythian
What Child is This - Rowan and the Rose
Full of Grace - Sarah McLachlan
Mi Secreto - Leonardo Paniagua
Sanctuary - Alan Menken
The Leaving of Liverpool - The Hooligans
Idiot Boyfriend - Jimmy Fallon
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
The Dusty Miller - The Chieftains
My Back Door - Melissa Etheridge
Almost the Ocean - Kat Savery
No Title Boogie - Hubert Sumlin
She Moves On - Paul Simon
Wicked Ways - Garbage
Dance the Cultists - HP Lovecraft Historical Society
Temperance - Roosevelt Dime

A farewell to the Pyrates Royale. Some clips from their last show. Thanks for all the music!

Out on the Ocean

Don't Sail There and Abigail

Being a Pirate and Good Ship Kangaroo

Drink a Rum and Everybody Loves a Pirate in the End

Mingulay Boat Song

Franklin

Boatman

Dr. John concert was awesome. I love music that is so evocative of the place that it comes from. His music just oozes New Orleans. The mix of so many styles with that insistent, sultry rhythm as a foundation. The music and the city just match beautifully. Leaving the concert I might as well of stepped out onto Canal St.

Tell me about some music you love because of the place it evokes.

One of the things I love about going through my fathers music collection is improving my music education, like for instance, I had no idea about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. For anyone curious how exactly gospel and swing evolved into rock & roll, just watch some of her clips:



She was doing that same sound as early as 1938, an audio only clip:



and a longer clip from a show in England:

andrewhickey has written a nice post about Davy Jones.

A quick plug, come see Kiva, playing this Saturday at the New Deal Cafe at 8pm to benefit Jaqui MacMillan.

For andrewhickey:

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I want to take a moment to pimp out the Kiva reunion concert coming up August 8th in Silver Spring, MD. Details at http://www.kivasong.com/schedule/current.html. The concert promises to be awesome with Amikaeyla and Jaqui MacMillan joining them along with many past members including Lynn Cunningham who some of you might know better from the Pyrates Royale.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes. I was a most excellent birthday.

They Might Be Giants final encore from last night