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If you blinked, you might have missed the cameos by Sigur Rós and Björk (I didn’t even notice Björk during the broadcast), but the rendition of the Simpsons theme song by Sigur Rós that aired over the credits was a “woo-hoo”!
Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James, WTBS-FM, Cambridge, MA, October 1964
Very casual but very amazing broadcast featuring these two American heroes, shortly after they were “rediscovered.” Must’ve been a fairly bizarre experience for them, after having been ignored for 30+ years, to suddenly be on the radio, interviewed by fawning fans. James, in particular, seems to be taking it all in a stride, though — as if he expected it to happen all along. Al Wilson, later of Canned Heat, pops up too. A very worthwhile listen via Midnight Cafe.
I’m sure Joni Mitchell is great, a “Hall of Famer,” a guiding light, a pioneer of yadda-yadda-yadda. I won’t argue with you if you should want to take a music history and theory course that’s based solely on the output of Joni Mitchell. She’s a tremendous guitar player… But what I hear in Joni Mitchell is the worst combination of easy listening music (which is bad-in-itself), lite jazz (which is half-bad; the ‘lite’ part), and iconoclastic experimentation (which may be good-in-itself, but when coupled with the other two “moods”, is really awful). I will spare you on what I think of her vocal technique.
Low, “Last Snowstorm of the the Year,” from Trust
I wanted to write you a song as great as this:
The nights were so long but we suffered the dark
And we wrote all those songs
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Low, “Sunflower,” live at Saint-Malo, L’Omnibus, 2/17/07
You bought some sweet, sweet, sweet sunflowers and gave them to the night
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