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Lucid Dreaming
From whiskey river: A Remedy for Insomnia Not sheep coming down the hills, not cracks on the ceiling — count the ones you loved, the former tenants of dreams who would keep you awake, once meant the...
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Midweek Music Break: “St. James Infirmary”
Laissez les bons temps rouler, eh? And among the songs often regarded as “typical New Orleans,” we have the subject of today’s Midweek Music Break. No way could I even begin to match the masterful job...
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Long, Languorous Tomorrows
[Image: “August Morning,” by Tracy, from “August in Ohio” at the Seasons Flow blog] [Below, click Play button to begin Summertime (Charlie Parker). While audio is playing, volume control appears at...
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Midweek Music Break: Louis Armstrong, “There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for...
Louis Armstrong’s public persona so often seemed so happy-go-lucky, so ingratiating, that the song “There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York” — from the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess — seems to fit...
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Midweek Music Break Playlist: Windows to the Soul
[Image: girl, dancing, in giant eye costume. Note the hands: one giving “thumbs-up!” sign, one holding a cocktail. I have no idea if this is an advertising image or what; found it at a couple of...
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Midweek Music Break: She Her & I: “Everybody Loves My Baby”
“Everybody Loves My Baby” has been bouncing around in pop music for a long time. First recorded in 1924 by Clarence Williams’s Blue Five (featuring a young cornetist named Louis Armstrong, who did not...
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Midweek Music Break: “Muskrat Ramble” (Various Performers)
Among the mass-media images burned into my brain from the 1950s is a 45rpm recording of this song by a Dixieland band called “The Firehouse Five Plus Two.” That group had an interesting back story: all...
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