What are you listening to? (2)

[JM]

Mos Def - Black On Both Sides

 

[South Bound]

Funny to see Papa Nez as an old man. But aren't we all?

 

[JM]

I've been looking for some Glenn Miller records for a while now but didn't want to pay $15 - $40 bucks from them so I kept crate digging until I found one for $1.00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs

 

[Osage Bluestem]

Here is one I wrote called Carry On. Its just me and my acoustic.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYIeSwOh-g

 

[abacabb3]

The Elders in my Church are incapacitated (one is on vacation, one just had heart surgery), so the Deacon gave the following the sermon: Christmas and the Uniqueness of Christ | SermonAudio.com

It is a sort of "It's a WOnderful Life," what the world would be like without Christmas.

 

[abacabb3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V664eLKjSxY

 

[jimmyjimmy]

I've been looking for some Glenn Miller records for a while now but didn't want to pay $15 - $40 bucks from them so I kept crate digging until I found one for $1.00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs

Great music.

At my age I shouldn't even know this music, but I do, and I love it.

 

[gord44]

Listening to Moscow Dec 25 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union. Good book so far. I love stuff like that. I have a strange fascination with Communist governments and dictatorships.

 

[moonbeam]

Absolutely awesome impassioned rendition of Etta James classic

Hope you enjoy…as much as I do

I’d Rather Go Blind

Something told me that it was over, baby, yeah
When I saw you
When I saw you and that girl
And y'all was talking

Something deep down
Something deep down in my soul said
"Go on, go on and cry, girl"
When I saw you, when I saw you with that same person
And y'all was walking around

And I'd rather
I'd rather be a blind girl, baby, yeah, yeah
Than to see you walk away, walk away from me, baby
Don't leave me, I don't wanna see you go

'Cause you see, I love you so much
And I don't wanna watch you leave me
Don't wanna watch you leave me, baby
And another thing is, one more thing is
I just don't, I just don't wanna be free
Scared to be by myself

I was just, I was just sitting here thinking
About your sweet kiss and your, your warm embrace
Hmm, your warm embrace
Hmm, yo, yo, warm, warm embrace

When I look down in the glass that I held to my lips
And I saw the reflection of the tears rolling down my face
That's when I knew I love you and I couldn't do without you
And I'd rather be a blind girl

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, babe, no, babe, oh, oh
Oh babe, all day sitting up
Sitting up thinking about you

Myself, I don't wanna see you leave
Please don't go
Oh, babe, no, babe, oh, babe
I'd rather be a blind girl

Something told me that it was over, baby
When I saw you
When I saw you and that girl
And y'all was talking

Something deep down in my soul said
"Go on, go on and cry, girl"
When I saw you, when I saw you and that girl
And y'all was walking by

And I'd rather go blind, I'd rather go blind
I'd rather go blind, babe
Than to see you walk away, walk away
Don't walk away 'cause I'd rather go blind

 

[Osage Bluestem]

I wrote this one. Its called epiphany.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tky-k4qLxLs

 

[JM]

Good job Osage.

 

[South Bound]

 

[JM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER-hN_GgHCY

 

[moonbeam]

Beautiful song from Van the Man

Flows like a mountain brook….. hope you enjoy

"Madame George"

Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford & Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops
Gone for cigarettes and matches in the shops
Happy taken Madame George
That's when you fall
Whoa, that's when you fall
Yeah, that's when you fall
When you fall into a trance
A sitting on a sofa playing games of chance
With your folded arms and history books you glance
Into the eyes of Madame George
And you think you found the bag
You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag
In the corner playing dominoes in drag
The one and only Madame George
And then from outside the frosty window raps
She jumps up and says Lord have mercy I think it's the cops
And immediately drops everything she gots
Down into the street below
And you know you gotta go
On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row
Throwing pennies at the bridges down below
And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow
Say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
And as you leave, the room is filled with music, laughing, music,
dancing, music all around the room
And all the little boys come around, walking away from it all
So cold
And as you're about to leave
She jumps up and says Hey love, you forgot your gloves
And the gloves to love to love the gloves...
To say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
Dry your eyes for Madame George
Say goodbye in the wind and the rain on the back street
In the backstreet, in the back street
Say goodbye to Madame George
In the backstreet, in the back street, in the back street
Down home, down home in the back street
Gotta go
Say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Dry your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye...
Say goodbye to Madame George
And the loves to love to love the love
Say goodbye
Oooooo
Mmmmmmm
Say goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
The love's to love the love's to love the love's to love...
Say goodbye, goodbye
Get on the train
Get on the train, the train, the train...
This is the train, this is the train...
Whoa, say goodbye, goodbye....
Get on the train, get on the train...

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[moonbeam]

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A plea such as this… to the Father of Lights

Would you kiss-a my eyes ?

Shall be answered… beloved

Astral Weeks

If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where mobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop

Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down in silence easy
To be born again, to be born again

From the far side of the ocean
If I put the wheels in motion
And I stand with my arms behind me
And I'm pushin' on the door

Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down in silence easy
To be born again, to be born again

There you go standin' with the look of avarice
Talkin' to Huddie Ledbetter
Showin' pictures on the wall
Whisperin' in the hall
And pointin' a finger at me

There you go, there you go
Standin' in the sun darlin'
With your arms behind you
And your eyes before
There you go

Takin' care of your boy
Seein' that he's got clean clothes
Puttin' on his little red shoes
I see you know he's got clean clothes

A puttin' on his little red shoes
A pointin' a finger at me
Standing in your sad arrest
Trying to do my very best

Lookin' straight at you
Comin' through, darlin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dreams
Where mobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop

Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down in silence easy
To be born again, to be born again
To be born again, to be born again

In another world, darlin'
In another world
In another time
Got a home on high

Ain't nothing but a stranger in this world
I'm nothing but a stranger in this world
I got a home on high in another land
So far away, so far away

Way up in the heaven, way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven, way up in heaven, oh
In another time, in another place
In another time, in another place

Way up in the heaven
In another time, in another place
In another time, in another place
In another face



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[JM]

Buying a new tenor, maybe concert size uke tonight.

Tenors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hwGqey0e6Y

Right now I'm diggin' the Cordoba because of the solid wood top. The others are laminates.

Concert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBmEHVcZvB8

Any recommendations?

Yours in the Lord,

jm

 

[JM]

Just ordered... click here!

 

[moonbeam]

To the beloved……. You know who you are

Hope you enjoy

"A Change is Gonna Come"

I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh and just like the river I've been running ev'r since
It's been a long time, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die
'Cause I don't know what's up there, beyond the sky
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

I go to the movie and I go downtown
Somebody keep tellin' me don't hang around
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

Then I go to my brother
And I say brother help me please
But he winds up knockin' me
Back down on my knees, oh

There have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will
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[JM]

Listening to twin preach!

 

[gord44]

Listening to twin preach!

Jazz band?