A Rainy Night In Georgia :: Tony Joe White

This is the best version of this song, in my view. It's on the KGSR Broadcasts Vol 15, CD 1, Song 5.

Flower Duet from Lakmé

I coulda sworn I had posted something about this song in the past...Dame Joan Sutherland and I'm not sure who the other singer is...one of my favorite songs...

Here is the info from my iTunes...sounds like it is the same version...so it would be Jane Berbié...possibly...

Lakmé: Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais (Flower Duet)
Dame Joan Sutherland, Jane Berbié, Orchestre national de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo & Richard Bonynge

Well I had a dream I stood beneath an orange sky...

This is the best version of the song "Orange Sky" by Alexi Murdoch that I could find. The one I listen to, the KGSR Live version, is the best I think, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Oh well...here it is....hear it...and weep...




Here are the lyrics...

Well I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
Yes I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my brother standing by
With my brother standing by
I said Brother, you know you know
It's a long road we've been walking on
Brother you know it is you know it is
Such a long road we've been walking on

And I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my sister standing by
With my sister standing by
I said Sister, here is what I know now
Here is what I know now
Goes like this..
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, in your love, in your love

But sister you know I'm so weary
And you know sister
My hearts been broken
Sometimes, sometimes
My mind is too strong to carry on
Too strong to carry on

When I am alone
When I've thrown off the weight of this crazy stone
When I've lost all care for the things I own
That's when I miss you, that's when I miss you, that's when I miss you
You who are my home
You who are my home
And here is what I know now
Here is what I know now
Goes like this..
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, in your love, in your love

Well I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
Yes I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my brother and my sister standing by
With my brother and my sister standing by
With my brother and my sister standing by

Call it full...What a fool I am...

My little moon meter down at the bottom right of this blog tells me that the moon is "waxing gibbous"...99% full...let's just call it a full moon...tonight...and tomorrow night...and more or less on Friday night...

I've felt it the past couple of days...it's not a bad feeling, in general, although it can be a downer at times...it's more of a gut feeling...that things are somehow amiss...things in the world...kind of a general uneasiness...it's difficult to describe, because it's so very subtle, sometimes I miss it myself...

It makes me want to listen to songs like this...and remember someone special in my life...who is no longer in my life....except in a memory...

Sometimes I forget to remember her...I was with her right now...today...five years ago...in Malibu, California...and it was to be the last time ever I saw her face...

What a fool I was...what a fool I am...still a fool...

Treat :: A Treat

God, Santana was just so prolific, with so much good music. These guys could jam. I'm in a Santana mood...just sitting here listening to my iTunes...but it's 2am and I'm hungry...

Jingo :: Dig it

I've been looking for this version for a long time. I would pipe it to my stereo system upstairs, in order to pull that big drum up on the subwoofer, but it's 2am and I don't want to wake the neighborhood.

This one is best listened to really, really loud.

Samba Pa Ti :: Carlos Santana

Pure audio with slide show...



"Down home" video of a TV show...pretty good audio...



Cool but interrupted version from Germany in 1971...great audio and video...

Cradle of Love....

This is the song by Kelly Willis that started this flurry of music posts...it played in my iPod mix today...and it struck a chord...

Anyway, I found it, and wasn't impressed with the audio quality...so I started posting all these others...but I will finish up with this one....the lyrics are below...note that the guy playing guitar is the songwriter...Paul Kelly...

Holy shit it hurts to listen to this one...



Baby you look tired and baby you look beat
Seems like you've been working eight days a week
Baby take a break from all you've been thinking of
And come into my cradle of love

Baby let me hold you and rock your cares away
Put aside your troubles at the ending of the day
Cause when we lie together I fit you like a glove
Come into my cradle of love

Down in the valley you can lose your name
All your sorrow and your pain
The dark warm waters they can heal you
And make you all brand new again

So baby come on over and lean your head on me
Here in my arms now is where you're meant to be
Baby take advantage of all I've got to give
Come into my cradle of love oh

Down in the valley you can lose your name...

So baby come on over and lean your head on me
Come into my cradle of love
Baby let me be your cradle of love
Oh babe come into my cradle of love oh yes oh

Oh well....my mood just changed...

Early Fleetwood Mac...before Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie came on the scene...


And the long version...which I prefer...I have been listening to this album [Then Play On] and this song [Oh Well] since the mid 1970's...when all my friends were listening to disco...this is what I was listening to...the best part comes at time stamp 2:20...

On Life...my mood in a song...

They say we Cancerians are "moody"...perhaps a better word is "expressive"...but because Cancers can also tend to be introverted, we tend to hold this expressiveness in...not in a festering sort of way...but in a "want to feel it" way...we want to experience the full depth of our emotions...the true meaning of our emotions...even if it hurts...

So, here is my current "mood" in a song...



I'm headed to the Cantina now for some EEEnchiladas...

Post script on the "Tagged" post...where we were to write seven random things about ourselves...I forgot about the biggest random thing in my life...it popped into my head the other day...I was married for 25 years...17 years the first time...8 years the second.....all my ex's live in Texas...all two of them...and I always refer to them in conversation as "my first ex-wife"...and "my second ex-wife"...twenty-five years...a quarter of a century...long time...very long time...