Love the New Orleans style jazz. Got really hooked when I watched HBO's Treme (written by the same folks who did The Wire) and have since bought a number of CD's. In NYC, you can hear it at one of the Honk Band shows. They make you think you are in New Orleans listening to street music.
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Loved Treme ! Fantastic show ! That’s how we originally found out about Kermit Ruffins and went to go see him and his band play at this bar bullets which is like under a house. The area not so good a long time ago the cab driver didn’t even want to drive us there. We get there way early and ended up drinking a bunch of beers with Kermit outside his pickup truck . Super cool dude
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His group back when we saw them were called the bbq swingers. They actually cooked bbq before the show for everyone who wanted. That food was freaking soooooooo good. The bar only held like 100 people. White Chocolate left with full stomach and a lot of new friends from Nola who couldn't believe we showed up and stayed till almost closing
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Wow, just finished the last episode of the original Twin Peaks series and it’s so strange, even for Lynch, but somehow made complete sense. The one thing I’m left wondering, is how was this shown on network tv in 1991?? The ending is pretty damned disturbing for anything, let alone network tv back then.
The series as a whole really took a bit of a dive after the original problem was resolved, totally dwelving into soap opera territory but a nice pay off in the last two episodes. Incredible acting by MacLachlan.
Onto Fire Walk With Me and then The Return.
The series as a whole really took a bit of a dive after the original problem was resolved, totally dwelving into soap opera territory but a nice pay off in the last two episodes. Incredible acting by MacLachlan.
Onto Fire Walk With Me and then The Return.
I watched the finale live in 1991 when I was 15.
You have to remember, Twin Peaks was relegated to the scrap heap by then. Never did a show with such hype come crashing down so fast. After Laura's killer was revealed, ratings plummeted and ABC started airing it on SATURDAY night. It was purgatory for prime-time TV. I don't think anyone at ABC gave a shit anymore and Lynch just went wild at the end.
As a diehard, I stuck with it only to be rewarded with the most depressing ending of all time. The book was closed on Coop. Until the Return.
Hope I am not co-opting this into a Music forum, but since we just had the Grammies.... A two-time Grammy-nominated female vocalist who I think is great is Maura O'Connell, from County Clare in IRE, but re-located many years ago to Nashville, she sings in the style of Nancy Griffith, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, but with a purer voice (think Judy Collins). She did an entire a cappella album and songs in the Irish language
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Every Christmas, break out Fairytale of New York, great song, Shane was the best, not the best to himself unfortunately. I heard he used to come on stage with a full bottle of whisky, chugging all during the show, and then get a second one. Love Pogues music.
Multiple videos available of him on stage holding on to the mic stand for dear life yet very rarely messed up the vocals. Fairy Tale of New York by far the most popular Christmas song in the British Isles.
The female who sings with MacGowan on Fairytale Kirsty MacColl, died very young pushing her youngest son out of the path of a runaway motorboat and getting caught in the propeller. The boat was driven by a very drunk operator. Her father was a renowned across the pond songwriter and folk singer.
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She also did a nice cover of New England, another legendary song of the era, though I do much prefer Billy Bragg's original versions.
Fairy Tale of New York seemed to be the unofficial theme song of Black Doves. It's become my family favorite Xmas tune, even for my kids.
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It's incredibly interesting to see how many people are captivated by music and artists like Shane McGowan and The Pogues! Reading about their influence and spirit on stage adds to the feeling that such moments become part of history that you want to preserve and pass on. And the mention of "Fairytale of New York" every Christmas only emphasizes how meaningful this song is to many people, especially when you are an adult and in your home in Dubai - it's like returning to childhood, when music creates a special atmosphere. It gives warmth and memories that you want to experience again and again, even in a completely different corner of the world, if you are looking for a home, then check out Aldar Properties PJSC price to find a real home for such special moments, where every corner is filled with comfort and memories. It is moments like these that make the holidays real.
The Pogues doing IMO the greatest anti-war song ever written depicting an Australian rover or one that lived a life of “waltzing (traveling by foot) matilda (carrying all his possessions, similar to the hobo with his sack on a stick).
While the song has evolved into a diddy in some ways it is actually about such a traveler who steals a sheep, is confronted by the sheep’s owner and constables and when caught in water with people waiting to catch him on either shore decides to drown himself rather than give up his freedom.
Anyway, the song posted, written by Eric Bogle in 1971, depicts the war experience and aftermath of such a rover.
Eric Bogle reference very impressed.
BrookJersey Redmen,
You and I have very similar music tastes. I was a huge fan of Maura O'Connell back in the day. I am trying to attach two of my favorite performances. One is of the McCartney classic For No One, the other is a cover of John Gorka's Blue Chalk. Gorka is a New Jersey folksinger who is probably my favorite non-famous musician. My wife could tell you stories of how I dragged to every small venue in New Jersey over the 1990s and early 2000s to see him live.
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Thanks, much appreciated!