Author Topic: This is my jam. (Read 215159 times)

booksmart · « **Reply #650 on:** September 06, 2018, 08:39:08 am »

Molly Tuttle, one hell of a flatpicker...

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coelacanth · « **Reply #651 on:** September 06, 2018, 12:08:04 pm »

Quote from: MTK20 on September 06, 2018, 04:18:29 am

Did you post something or did my link not work? If I try to play it from WTA, I get an error. If I click it to take me to YouTube, it works fine .

My posted link was what I was referring to but I couldn't go directly to the video from your link either so I guess I'll have to go directly to YouTube.

MTK20 · « **Reply #652 on:** September 28, 2018, 01:00:15 pm »

ZeroTA · « **Reply #653 on:** September 28, 2018, 05:22:10 pm »

Slash's new album is lights out. I like all his stuff out GNR. Myles Kennedy's voice is an acquired taste but damn, Slash can play.

MTK20 · « **Reply #654 on:** September 30, 2018, 02:25:53 am »

Well, I'm on a classic country and folk kick again

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MTK20 · « **Reply #655 on:** September 30, 2018, 04:19:41 am »

Mikee5star · « **Reply #656 on:** October 03, 2018, 10:46:49 am »

Amazingly well done version of this song.

coelacanth · « **Reply #657 on:** October 03, 2018, 07:00:21 pm »

Yup. Pretty good. The singer's voice has a bit of the "high lonesome" sound to it. She's not Alison Krauss but she's not bad.

MTK20 · « **Reply #658 on:** October 03, 2018, 10:30:00 pm »

I just love banjos

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coelacanth · « **Reply #659 on:** October 03, 2018, 10:54:49 pm »

Me too. Big fan of acoustic music.

Mikee5star · « **Reply #660 on:** October 04, 2018, 01:27:01 am »

Quote from: coelacanth on October 03, 2018, 07:00:21 pm

Yup. Pretty good. The singer's voice has a bit of the "high lonesome" sound to it. She's not Alison Krauss but she's not bad.

That band is from Oslo. That's not "high lonesome", it is "high arctic".

I liked Alison's singing better when she had a "rougher" vocal style. I am not impressed with the polished Nashville sound in general.

MTK20 · « **Reply #661 on:** October 24, 2018, 10:49:41 pm »

Acoustic techno?

Wok and bowl ain't noise pollution.

coelacanth · « **Reply #662 on:** October 24, 2018, 11:46:53 pm »

Well, that was pretty impressive. A 21 minute drum solo is no mean feat by itself but considering what he was working with its even more so. I wonder how old he was when his parents threw him out of the house?

booksmart · « **Reply #663 on:** October 25, 2018, 09:24:27 am »

Very impressive. He needs to build a cage out of PVC, though... Keep everything sorted and handy.

MTK20 · « **Reply #664 on:** November 03, 2018, 10:27:04 pm »

Langenator · « **Reply #665 on:** November 25, 2018, 08:47:18 am »

Found this on Michael Yon's FB feed.

Mike is right. Killing music.

coelacanth · « **Reply #666 on:** November 25, 2018, 06:21:02 pm »

Not bad. They remind me of the end zone bleachers crowd at a Raiders game when they were back in Oakland.

coelacanth · « **Reply #667 on:** November 25, 2018, 06:31:03 pm »

I'll just leave this here for now . . .
https://www.ouvirmusica.com.br/tom-lehrer/630821/

Raptor · « **Reply #668 on:** November 25, 2018, 08:56:06 pm »

Don't know if I'd call 'em "my jams," but these two songs (as in these exact recordings) have been stuck in my head for the last few days.

AltRight Vanguard · « **Reply #669 on:** November 25, 2018, 09:30:06 pm »

Quote from: Raptor on November 25, 2018, 08:56:06 pm

We Americans tend to roll our eyes when an Englishman mentions 'ungrateful colonials' in jest. We imagine that our cause was just, so no matter what the Brits think. What we sometimes forget, is that other British colonies were less 'ungrateful.' When Churchill needed an army to fight Hitler, the colonies answered. Australia, South Africa, Rhodesia, India, Canada... They all answered the call. Then in the decades after the war, so many of them were left to float away without a paddle by Britain...

coelacanth · « **Reply #670 on:** November 25, 2018, 10:51:27 pm »

True. That said, we have always come to the aid of the commonwealth in modern times. I take any commentary re: "ungrateful colonials" with a grain of salt. These days it seems to me more like good - natured ribbing than anything else.

AltRight Vanguard · « **Reply #671 on:** November 26, 2018, 10:06:39 pm »

Quote from: coelacanth on November 25, 2018, 10:51:27 pm

True. That said, we have always come to the aid of the commonwealth in modern times. I take any commentary re: "ungrateful colonials" with a grain of salt. These days it seems to me more like good - natured ribbing than anything else.

Certainly, any debt that was 'owed' was squared up by our involvement in the first war, and well overpayed by involvement in the second. Not that they haven't acted against their own interests to help us a time or two since.

coelacanth · « **Reply #672 on:** November 26, 2018, 11:27:29 pm »

Yup. A good friend of mine is English and played the "ungrateful colonials" card early and often. I pointed out that we would be happy to rejoin the commonwealth any time they thought it would be a good idea for us to adopt them as a colony.

These discussions usually take place over the course of several adult beverages.

MTK20 · « **Reply #673 on:** November 27, 2018, 02:24:20 am »

Some Australians have a bit of "Australia first" grit to them. One only has to look towards Australian country music, in order to find fierce patriotism in that culture.

Now with that bit of history out of the way, I'm going to be all ethnocentric American and inject some of our musical history here

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I heard this song a few days ago and thought it was cool, but I didn't realise there was a historical story behind it and I'd like to share it with y'all.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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July 14, 1861
Camp Clark, Washington

My very dear Sarah: The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days — perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more …

I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans on the triumph of the Government and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution. And I am willing — perfectly willing — to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt …

Sarah my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me unresistibly on with all these chains to the battle field.

The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them for so long. And hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and seen our sons grown up to honorable manhood, around us. I have, I know, but few and small claims upon Divine Providence, but something whispers to me — perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar, that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battle field, it will whisper your name. Forgive my many faults and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have often times been! How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness …

But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the gladdest days and in the darkest nights … always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again …

Sullivan Ballou was killed a week later at the First Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.

Born March 28, 1829, in Smithfield, Rhode Island, Ballou was educated at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts; Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; and the National Law School in Ballston, New York. He was admitted to the Rhode Island Bar in 1853.

Ballou devoted his brief life to public service. He was elected in 1854 as clerk of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, later serving as its speaker. He married Sarah Hart Shumway on October 15, 1855, and the following year saw the birth of their first child, Edgar. A second son, William, was born in 1859. Ballou immediately entered the military after the war broke out in 1861. He became judge advocate of the Rhode Island militia and was 32 at the time of his death at the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861.

When he died, his wife was 24. She later moved to New Jersey to live out her life with her son, William, and never remarried. She died at age 80 in 1917. Sullivan and Sarah Ballou are buried next to each other at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island. They have no known living descendants.

Ironically, Sullivan Ballou's letter was never mailed. Although Sarah would receive other, decidedly more upbeat letters dated after the now-famous letter from the battlefield, the letter in question would be found among Sullivan's effects when Governor William Sprague of Rhode Island traveled to Virginia to retrieve the remains of his state's sons who had fallen in battle.

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/civil-war/war/historical-documents/sullivan-ballou-letter/#/

MTK20 · « **Reply #674 on:** November 27, 2018, 02:36:37 am »

If anyone is interested, here is the document in full:

https://www.nps.gov/resources/story.htm%3Fid%3D253