Thanks John Scalzi for the introduction... https://youtu.be/onAvi_-Ue14
I followed a link to a music video on my friend Gary Myers' blog this morning. Two or three step in I hit this and had to share it... https://youtu.be/45LTdsV1cyQ
While, like most Texans of my age, I knew of Jerry Jeff Walker back in high school. Friends even hung out in Luckenbach during summer vacations. His first hit has always been a favourite of mine... Mr. Bojangles https://youtu.be/cycD8SBS84I But it wasn't until one of my friends became a band…
One way to spend a day like today is a bit of music playing on the TV... https://youtu.be/Oc32Z424DCc And having a stage full of Texas artists (and Emmylou) playing the songs of Townes Van Zandt sure makes the day go by better...
https://youtu.be/0GfYV3db0aM
I was listening to my Amazon Music today and liked this one. Enjoy... https://youtu.be/ulRXvH8VOl8 Well, we made it. August has ended. You may recall at the outset of this month I wrote that August was a month to survive in Houston: “If you’re in Houston in August and the high temperature…
Way back in the neolithic when I was in High School... You know... back when another President was doing things that woulda/shoulda got him thrown out of office, Simon and Garfunkel had a song out called The Sound of Silence. My team of English Lit Teachers... yeah, there were two…
https://youtu.be/yS3pCCEah7A?t=438 I never would have believed it... But this is a pretty good cover of Mary Gauthier's Mercy Now. Mary had this to say about it... Boy George sang "Mercy Now" for Rolling Stone and I cried. His understanding of the song and his ability to truly SING it...wow! Honest to goodness, he nailed…