Oh, yes please, Perkins!
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
quester, there's also "Secondhand Love," Pete Townshend.
I will send them to your profile address, Quester
"Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood?
Kiss The Rain, Billie Myers
These are great! I gotta go to bed now but will check again tommorrow! Thanks!
Say Goodbye - Dave Matthews Band
Animal Collective's Deacon To Make A Difference In Mali With Music
Joshua Dibb, better known as Deacon of the band Animal Collective, has been invited to perform at 2010's Festival in the Desert, which takes place in Essakane, Mali from January 7-9. He's headed to Mali for more than just music -- he will be supporting the anti-slavery campaign.
Dibb initially started a project on kickstarter.com to fund the trip and the making of a CD of field recordings and a book that brings awareness to Mali's slavery plight. Fans flooded the site and donated in droves.
Now the trip is being funded by Paw Tracks, a record label affiliated with Animal Collective's early work, so all the money raised through the kickstarter project will be going to aid Africa, making it a truly humanitarian effort.
For $50, supporters will receive a hand-packaged CD with music Dibb is creating with sounds collected from the trip. All donations will be benefiting TEMEDT, a Mali human rights organization working to abolish slavery of the Tuareg people, set up legal support services, create economic development, and provide education opportunities for them. TEMEDT has teamed up with Ashoka projects in order to achieve these goals.
TEMEDT, which stands for solidarity, says there are thousands of people are still living in slavery or slavery-like conditions in Mali, although the government formally ended slavery in the 1960s after independence.
The fundraising goal of $25,000 has to be met by December 31 in order for the project to be funded, so donate here.
I just listened to John Denver and the Muppets' "A Christmas Together." Hands down my favorite holiday album. Besides the obvious nostagia factor, there are some really lovely songs on there that one doesn't really hear elsewhere.
My 2nd fave is Sesame Street*, then Nat King Cole, then Bing.
What are y'all's?
* Can't remember if I shared this before, but for years our album would skip in the same place - during the Bert/Ernie Gift of the Magi story, with Mr. Hooper saying "To get Bert a cigar bocky- to get Bert a cigar bocky- to get Bert..." It finally stopped skipping on its own, and now we miss it.
I've got my copy of that Denver/Muppets CD waiting to get listened to this afternoon!
But my favorite Xmas CD is The Roches "We Three Kings." Such fantastic harmonies, such beautiful music.
I just got a replacement copy of a Starbucks Winterludes CD from the 1990s called Angel Holidays--all instrumental/classical songs, from The Nutcracker to Handel's Hallelujah to Bach, but my favorite track is "Riu Riu Chiu," which is gorgeous.
That same year my sister bought me that CD from Starbucks, she also got me one with more popular music called Cool Holiday Notes (although I doubt it's worth the $143 that Amazon vendor is asking for).