Closing the cottage, getting the docks ready for winter

Closing the cottage, getting the docks ready for winter, originally uploaded by Andrew Crump.

Hey welcome to mid month October, the air is colder, the leaves are changing colour, the Maple Leafs still suck .. So whats new.. nothing. No time to post, no time to research.

History behind "It Ain't Easy", I'd always thought it was a old blues song, who knew.

Enjoy.....
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust - It Ain't Easy
Dave Edmunds - Rockpile - It Ain't Easy
Long John Baldry - It Ain't Easy - It Ain't Easy
The Ranconteurs - Zane Lowe BBC Sessions 2006 - It Ain't Easy (Live BBC)

It Ain't Easy Lyrics - Ron Davies
When you climb to the top of the mountain
Look out over the sea
Think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be
Then you jump back down to the rooftops
Look out over the townT
hink about all of the strange things circulating round
It ain't easy, it ain't easy
It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down
Well all the people have got their problems
That ain't nothing new
With the help of the good Lord
We can all pull on throughWe can all pull on through
Get there in the end
Sometimes it'll take you right up and sometimes down again
It ain't easy, it ain't easy
It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down
Satisfaction, satisfaction
Keep me satisfied
I've got the love of a Hoochie Koochie woman
She calling from inside
She's a-calling from inside
Trying to get to you
All the woman really wants you can give her something too
It ain't easy, it ain't easy
It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down
It ain't easy, it ain't easy
It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down

I haven't posted very much over the last few months so here's a gift, southern ontario punk rock from the late 1970's.

These bands all formed in '75/'76, the colonies/the poor northern cousins answer to DIY bands coming out the US and the UK. It seems that there was a seed in music in that time period that germinated at the same time in western speaking countries. Why?, (in Canada it was CANCON) who knows but the late 1970's was a very rich time for music and the creative spirit. Enjoy.

The Viletones - Screamin Fist.mp3

Forgotten Rebels - Surfing on Heroin.mp3

Diodes - Tired of Waking up Tired.mp3

The Demics - New York City.mp3

Teenage Head - Picture My Face.mp3

There is a heck of a lot more great bands from this time, all you have to do is dig for them.

I know I haven't posted any music for a while .. sorry about that, but been busy .. I got this email a short while ago. You may want to log in a listen.

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Last minute update... Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and daughter of the great songwriter Joao Gilberto, and Tom Moon, author of "1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die" are joining WNYC's Soundcheck at the Greene Space for a discussion on the shrinking generation gap between parents and their children and the musical inheritances that are taking place.

Then... Rosanne Cash will perform songs from her new album The List. This takes place at 2 pm EDT Wednesday, September 23rd (yes, TOMORROW!). Here's the link you should post for the live videocast of the entire show:
http://www.thegreenespace.org/thegreenespace/

Thanks,
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http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/... music of global significance...


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I have been working on this blog for like a year and I have only 48 posts, that sucks. But in all reality I have been downloading and listening to some great music. I enjoy posting music, and finding covers of songs that I like, and sometimes I might come up with something interesting to say about music. Cool. That's why I am doing this. Or at least I think that is why I am doing this.

Anyway here is something I'm going to try and work on for the next while. I put before you this hypothesis ....

Modern Popular Music (from Rock'n Roll, R&B, Pop, Metal, Death Metal, Rap, Hip Hop, Funk etc) Would Not Exist Without American Race Radio.

How is that for a statement. Do you think I can prove it? Well I am going to try, because I do believe that it is a fact. Now onto research, I will post my findings over the next while.

I received two emails today that made me feel kind of good, I have been asked to review some new music. I've received a few in the past but have never done anything about it. I know, I know, every music blog receives these emails. Some Record company PR guy grabs as many emails as he can, then mass mails requests for reviews. but I think I will give it a try. Let me know what you think when I'm done.

I seem to have a following of people coming by, not for my post, but to find out what other music bloggers I link to are doing. Kind of funny isn't.

Enjoy the covers!

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down By The River Live at River Bend Music Center, Cincinnati Ohio, Hordefest mp3
Buddy Miles - Down By The River
Low - Down By The River
Indigo Girls - Down By The River

Umbrella Islands, open water Georgian Bay, Ontario.

I'm back, but no music to post, I can't get on the computer to upload anything new. The kids have been hogging the computer since we got back. Can you believe two weeks without a computer. Sweet.

Covers Collection of Summer

Well this is just horrible, I have only been posting once or twice a month. Not very blogger of me is it. I'll use the excuse that I have been working very hard trying to make my sales quota and getting my bonuses.

(I really am just a lazy bugger and have been downloading audio books (mp3) like crazy. I do have a moral dilemma about this, I am only downloading copies of books that I already own {I read a book 5 or 6 times before I can say I am happy with it, its like watching a movie over and over again because you really enjoy it.} The dilemma is that I have already paid for the book, I can go to a library and borrow these audio books anytime I want, but should I be downloading them as the company that owns the rights to the audio book are not being paid and therefore the Writer who wrote the book is not getting their royalty cut. Moral dilemma)

Anyway, my Eldest (He is 17 years old and really likes Children of Bodom, and is really impressed that they are going to release a covers cd), he and I had a really interesting conversation the other day about how in the beginning of the record industry that records were sold and recorded mostly on a regional basis. A record company would pay for the rights to a popular song (look up Tin Pan Alley for the US and I'm not sure what the UK/Australian/European comparisons would be, I am so Americanized in my history of popular culture, even though I am Canadian.) and then hire a regional artists to sing and play on the recording. The song may have been made popular on a national radio show (look up the history of radio) , or a piece that had been in the market place for a number of years and a arranger coming up with a new take on it.

Anyways, you could end of having multiple versions of the same song being played all over the continent and what would happen was that one version would embed it self in popular culture. There were definite examples of this in what was called Race Music and Popular Music in the states. Anyone know what it was like in other parts of the world?

You can see this happening again with musicians, take a look at the track list from that Children of Bodom album, or go and do a search of cover blogs. I think its interesting that Paul McCartney has to pay Michael Jackson (now his estate) every time he wants to play a Beatles song that is in that library of music that the estate owns, it must really burn a hole in his guts. What will happen in 30 years when some band wants to do covers of the Black Eyed Peas, Backstreet Boys or Jonas Brothers .. who owns the rights to their music?

Enjoy your summer, if your having one! It's been cloudy and cold here. Enjoy the covers.

Eddie Cochran -> Summertime Blues
Bobby Fuller -> Summertime Blues
Blue Cheer -> Summertime Blues
The Who -> Summertime Blues
T-Rex -> SummerTime Blues
Levon Helm -> Summertime Blues
Joan Jett -> SummerTime Blues
Rush -> Summertime Blues
The Ordinary Boys -> Summertime Blues
Guitar Wolf -> SummerTime Blues (thanks Nazz Nomad)

Happy Canada Day

A wide and varied collection of Canadian artists for you on Canada Day 2009, One Hundred and Forty Two years old... Happy Birthday Canada.

Viletones - I hate You-Without You
The Real McKenzies - Ceilidh
Cancer Bats - Sorceress
Die Mannequin - Do It Or Die
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Neil Young - Tonights the Night
The Diodes - Tired of Waking Up Tired
Forgotten Rebels - Homosexual Murder
The Demics - New York City
Avril Lavigne - Imagine
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie
Rush - The Spirit Of Radio
OLP - Naveed
Teenage Head - Top Down
Sum 41 - Fat Lip
Payolas - China Boys
Trooper - Raise a Little Hell
Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Jeff Healey Band - All Along The Watchtower(live)
The Guess Who - American Woman
Pursuit of Happiness - Cigarette Dangles
Great Big Sea - Mari-Mac
Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking
Spirit Of the West - Home for a Rest
Doug & the Slugs - Making it Work
Barenaked Ladies - If I Had $1000000



Enjoy! Raise a cool one to Canada.

Cats Songs

Canned Heat - Catfish Blues.mp3
Tom Waits - Tommy the Cat.mp3
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut.mp3
Lovin' Spoonful - Nashville Cats.mp3
Johnny Cash - 10 Mean Eyed Cat.mp3
The Cure - TheLovecats(live).mp3
Elton John - Honky Cat.mp3
Goldfinger - Fuck You and Your Cat.mp3
The Cramps - Faster Pussycat.mp3
Bad Manners - El Pussycat.mp3
The Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower (live '72).mp3
Squeeze - Cool For Cats.mp3
Ted Nugent - 1-12 Cat Scratch Fever.mp3
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire).mp3
Jethro Tull - Cat's Squirrel.mp3
Lightn' Hopkins - Black Cat.mp3
Rufus "Hound Dog" Thomas Jr. - Bear Cat.mp3

Johnny Winter - Stray Cat Blues.mp3
Soundgarden - Stray Cat Blues.mp3
Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues.mp3

Hope you enjoy "Cat Songs", been a while since I posted so I thought it was time. Stop by and say hello, and for those of you who come by to go to other sites glad to see you. Though I would like to know who you are .. say a quick hello and let me know where your from.

Have fun

Schoolhouse Rock => Three is a Magic Number
Jeff Buckley => Three is a Magic Number
Wilco => Three is a Magic Number
Blind Melon => Three is a Magic Number

This is for the kind words I recieved from "Any Major Dude With Half A Heart"

Looking across the Bay. Damn, I want to head north and open the cottage. Have to wait another four weeks.

The first time I heard this song it had to be in about 1977. Punk opened the light, that music was more then just something to listen to, but I had always been attracted to the English blues rock guitar, Hendrix, Clapton and Beck, not the stuff they did in the 70's, that was boring old shit, ego masturbation is the best way I can describe it, but the music they created in the 60's when they were young and trying to prove themselves. I wanted to know where these guys came from and how their styles developed. I watched every rock documentary that came on TV. I read every book that I could (that's not saying very many, as I come from a town with one public library). I don't know if I wanted this information to have standing in the yard in between classes while we grabbed a smoke or was it for myself because the sound talked to me.

Anyway, I found a album in the record store .. 5 Live Yardbirds with Eric Clapton. I've since discovered that it was a bootleg of the "5 Live Yardbirds" live album. But this song was on it. "Smokestack Lightning". Wow! This led me to Howlin' Wolf, who lead me to Muddy Waters, and so on.

Take a listen:

Howlin' Wolf => Smokestack Lightin'
The Yardbirds => Smokestack Lightin'
The Grateful Dead => Smokestack Lightin'
Soundgarden => Smokestack Lightin'


Enjoy the spring.

Soon

HAPPY EASTER


Spike Jones - Ya Wanna Buy A Bunny

I grew up in a house of music. This is the 60's, so you have to realise the my parents were born into the depression and grew up during war. Dad loves big band and jazz music. Mom is a range of jazz to Johnny Cash and Tom Jones. The first album covers I remember seeing were a bunch by Benny Goodman and Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" as a kid I always thought this was really cool.

But the first music I remember, for some reason was Johnny Cash. We used to sing "Ring of Fire" as a joke to bug Dad. He hates Johnny and country music. This wide range of musical taste has affected how I listen to music. Trying to teach the same to my Eldest, but god he is turning into a metal head.

Enjoy the following.

Johnny Cash - The Legend of Johnny Cash -Ring Of Fire(.mp3)
Sleepy La Beef Ring of Fire(.mp3)
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk The Line Soundtrack -Ring of Fire (.mp3)
Bishop Allen - Live the Velvet Lounge - Ring of Fire (Live)(.mp3)
Bob Dylan - Ring Of Fire(.mp3)
Ray Charles - Ring of Fire(.mp3)
Johnny Cash and the Carter Family (Live) Ring Of Fire(.mp3)
Jailbait - Ring Of Fire(.mp3)
Anita Carter - (Loves) Ring of Fire(.mp3)
Elvis Costello - Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash cover)(.mp3)
Blondie - Eat to the Beat CD - Ring Of Fire [Live](.mp3)
Social Distortion - Greatest Hits - Ring Of Fire(.mp3)
Wall of Voodoo -Ring Of Fire(.mp3)
Moby - Ring Of Fire(.mp3)
Dick Dale and his Deltones - Ring Of Fire(.mp3)
My Morning Jacket - Live at Lee's Palace -ring-of-fire-cash.mp3(.mp3)

BE BACK SOON

Here it is the middle of February, the snow is almost gone (damn, it's snowing again today), and I want to go away somewhere but I can't.

I'm now another year older, not wiser.

We have a new car (just today - a new Mazda 6), the old crown vic is dead (a write off in a low speed collision, the guy even admitted to hitting me so the insurance covered everything)

I really don't feel like writing anything else today so here is one of my favorite songs covered by a bunch of bands. Enjoy and go and buy if you like them.

Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes {Buy}

Billy Bragg - All The Young Dudes {Buy}

F.U.'s - All The Young Dudes {Buy}

David Bowie - All The Young Dudes {Buy}

The Skids - All The Young Dudes {Buy}

Damn its snowing again .. I just want spring.

The Doors - Wintertime Love - Waiting for the Sun {Buy}
Frank Sinatra - Spring is Here (I wish!!){Buy}