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Hippie Sounds

September 18th, 2007

SIRIUS Satellite Radio Launches Exclusive Grateful Dead Channel

Good new for Dead fans everywhere; earlier this month SIRIUS Satellite Radio launched the all new Grateful Dead Channel. All Dead all the time. Nice.
Included in the new channel line-up will be rare and previously unreleased tunes, various shows hosted by remaining Dead members, and here’s the best part — archived interviews with our old […]

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September 15th, 2007

Photographs & Memories: A Random Rant About Stuff I Can’t Have

Since the last post I regained my voice but not by much. You know I don’t usually NEED to see movies and all of a sudden there are all these cool flicks out. I’m a huge musical fan. As has been duly noted before most of my music tastes are related in part (or even […]

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September 13th, 2007

This Month In Music: September 2007

Music of interest that is…
September is such a busy month that I hardly know where to start. Of course we just wrapped up Farm Aid but that doesn’t mean that there’s not Farm Aid stuff still a happening.
The best news (obviously) is that my favorite girl Joni has her new album Shine coming out on […]

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September 9th, 2007

Ben Harper & Jack Johnson

In keeping with my earlier post I wanted to bring in a Harper tune and here’s a great version of an oldie.
Please Me Like You Want To

Amazing.
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September 9th, 2007

NPR Interview With Ben Harper

Harper combination of acoustic folk, blues, funk, soul and rock echoes the sounds of the of the 60s and 70s and yet somehow is completely unique. NPR mentions Harper as a lesson in genre transcendence and that’s a great description.

Yesterday NPR posted a great interview with the amazing Harper who recently released Lifeline in late […]

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September 3rd, 2007

Judy Collins Interview about Beatles Tunes and More

You may have heard about Collins release in June of this year, Judy Collins Sings Lennon & McCartney. Collins released the album on her personal label Wildflower Records and has been touring as of late to promote it. On the album Collins covers such tunes as:
And I Love Her, We Can Work It Out, […]

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July 15th, 2007

Zappa’s Love Song Theory

“The amount of damage that’s been done by love songs is incalculable”
~ Frank Zappa
Zappa’s not wrong. The Summer of Love anniversary got me thinking — and I realized that I don’t often break 60s and 70s music into “love” songs per say. I tend to think about music as “happy” vs. “sad” […]

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July 9th, 2007

Now I’ve Been Happy Lately…

Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it’s going to come

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take […]

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July 5th, 2007

Ted Nugent: Wishing All the Hippies A Happy July 4th!

I’m hoping that my U.S.A readers had an amazing 4th. Complete with some icy cold drinks, good food, and of course, rocking tunes. Nugent was sending out another sort of tidings to “stoned, dirty, stinky hippies” everywhere yesterday via his lame article in the New York Times.
Hippie Sounds is currently just striking out. On that […]

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July 4th, 2007

“The Establishment” Kicked Me Out…

When I was four years old.
No joke. I’ve been in trouble since then, sure. But it all started for me in preschool.
My nursery school teachers called my mom in for a little chat. They were appalled, they were upset, something needed to be done about me; all because I wouldn’t stop singing Only the Good […]

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