Echoes In The Wind
 
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Saturday Singles Nos. 93 and 94

2008-10-04 09:34:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
...music by Henry Thomas in their collections How do we know? Well, drop to the bottom of this post and click on the link for Bull Doze Blues, one of twenty-three songs recorded in Chicago between 1927 and 1929 by Henry Thomas. The flute used by Canned Heat on Going Up The Country was clearly inspired by Thomas playing of an instrument called...
 
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A Look At October 1968

2008-10-03 11:08:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
...music Heres the top fifteen records in the Billboard Top 40 for October 5, 1968 Hey Jude by the Beatles Harper Valley P.T.A. by Jeannie C Riley Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Little Green Apples by O.C. Smith Girl Watcher by the OKaysions Slip Away by Clarence Carter People Got To Be Free by the Rascals Ive Gotta Get A Message To...
 
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Tower of Power, Tina & the Pointers

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2008-10-02 08:32:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
...band. The clothes and the synth solo seem to put this in the 1970s. Anyone out there have any information And then, heres a clip from 1974 of Yes We Can Can by the Pointer Sisters, a superb performance featuring the late drummer Gaylord Birch I guess a couple folks were concerned this week and asked the Texas Gal if I was okay after...
 
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A Baker's Dozen from 1973, Vol. 4

2008-10-01 09:39:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
...music had come and gone while we were gone. Friends sent many of us tapes that we shared in our lounge, so we heard some of what was popular, both Top 40 and albums. But there have been numerous times over the years and I think this likely happened to all of us when Id hear a song for the first time and learn it had been popular during the...
 
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Sorry!

2008-09-30 11:50:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
No post today, folks. I should be back with a Baker's Dozen or an album tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by
 
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Blues Monday, Vol. 2

2008-09-29 08:51:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
This is one of those Mondays when Im not going to write much, so Im resurrecting a category used here once before: Blues Monday First, heres a fiery performance of They Call It Stormy Monday by B.B. King and Albert Collins. The track comes from Kings 1993 CD, Blues Summit , which brought King together with luminaries like Collins, Robert Cray,...
 
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Saturday Single No. 92

2008-09-27 08:56:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
Oh, its a long, long while from May to December But the days grow short when you reach September No, Im not channeling intimations of mortality this morning. But it is autumn, my favorite of seasons. I often wonder if theres some sliver of my being that lingers from the long-ago days of my Swedish and German ancestors, some bit of soul memory...
 
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Tales of a Mid-Seventies Pilgrim

2008-09-26 08:59:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
...Music Guide says he learned to play piano and guitar and played in a rock band in high school, sometimes writing his own material. He earned a degree in English from the University of California in nearby Berkeley. In 1970, a gig in a San Francisco coffee shop led to his meeting Joan Baez and then her sister, Mimi Fariña, who had recorded...
 
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Blue Mink, Grand Funk & Bobby Sherman

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2008-09-25 08:33:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
Rambling around YouTube with yesterdays Bakers Dozen in mind, I was astounded to find a video of Blue Mink performing Our World, evidently from a 1970 television performance. Im guessing it was one of those performances where the singing was done live to a recorded backing track. But it gives us a look at the group Then, heres a clip of...
 
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A Baker's Dozen from 1970, Vol. 4

2008-09-24 10:15:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
...music history and criticism and beginning to write bits of verse and lyrics (some of it inspired by the less-than-happy outcomes of my friendships with those sophomore girls). Even though I was flying solo in a world beginning to be defined by couples, I was pretty happy Sometime during the autumn, I filled out my lone college application,...
 
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