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“Sugar Baby (Banjo Version)” Sam Amidon and Bill Frisell (Live at LPR)
Sam and Bill played this song twice in the same show, but the two versions were completely different. This was the first version they performed. The other was similar to the album version. I posted that video yesterday.
“Blackberry Blossom”
One of my students is off shooting a movie so I made a video lesson of a traditional bluegrass tune and figured we could share it with everybody. Get the PDF sheet music from my website.
“Be Still My Love”
My good friend Guy Prandstatter is writing and recording 100 songs in 100 days. For #34, he came down to Brooklyn. This is a piece of music I’d actually written a while ago, but he wrote some really special lyrics dedicated to my wife and I because we’ve known each other for 17 years!
Also, be sure to check out Guy’s other songs (especially 26 and 27) and learn about the purpose of this project via iamthedifference.org.
We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.
(Source: gifmovie, via motionsensorsoundtrack)
Electric Light Orchestra — “Don’t Bring Me Down” from Discovery
Somehow, a white dude like me, born and raised in St. Louis and now living deep in an uncool part of Brooklyn, got a latin pop/rock gig in Washington Heights, the Dominican neighborhood of NYC.
I’m learning most of these songs by looking up the YouTube video. This video is probably my favorite. It’s so subtle. You don’t have to understand Spanish to know that guy wants to do it with that girl. So bad that it’s driving him loco.
See? Did you pick up on that?