CHORAL ~

Hildegard von Bingen "Work Gottes"










"Hildegard of Bingen was a preacher at a time when canon law forbade women to preach, a named composer when most music was anonymous, a visionary, a theologian, a writer, an artist, a hagiographer, a prolific letter-writer and an early scientist, botanist, herbalist, physician and healer - she even invented her own coded language. This German Benedictine anchorite who lived in the twelfth century was in the fullest sense a polymath. Yet she was an enclosed nun, until mid-life her only contact with the outside world being through a single window."
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cultivating the cosmic tree





The Cosmic Egg



"woman may be made from man, but no man can be made without a woman". HVB

LET ME GO ~

The Pogues

If yr going to celebrate ~ you invite The Pogues

GOIN' ~

Barbara Dane, Newport Folk Festival, 1965

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born in 1927, barbara dane, since high school, has sung at demonstrations for racial equality and economic justice around the world. there is no one quite like her in the blues & folk tradition.

BE~BOP ~

Jack Kerouac reads with Steve Allen on piano
November 1959

At Steve Allen's expense he (Kerouac) traveled in luxury via passenger train from the East Coast and stayed in California for ten days. With Steve Allen accompanying him on the piano, Jack read a beautiful passage from Visions of Cody. Since the producers wanted him to read from On the Road, he taped the sheet from Cody into the back of the Road book, and no one ever knew the difference.

~ Bill Morgan from Beat Atlas (City Lights)

IN MY HEAD SWIRLING ~

This song suddenly popped into my head today and put a skip into my step while outdoors doing chores. "The Blue Jeans" backup singers were famed Darlene Love and Fanita James, also of The Blossoms, and all strung through the mighty Phil Spector wall of sound.

GOOD ADVICE ~

Annie Ross

there's no one in the jazz world like annie ross ~ an English jazz singer, chanteuse and actress, best known as a member of the trio
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross ~ she became a US citizen in 2001

CANYON ~

Jessi Colter

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once married to duane eddy, and long time singing companion & wife of Waylon Jennings and mother of musician Shooter Jennings, Jessi Colter has an everlasting singer's soul to true country music. Maybe her most recent album out of the ashes is her finest work ever.

IN THE DARK ~

Allison Moore & Steve Earle

Moorer gave birth to the couples (with Steve Earle) first child, John Henry Earle, on April 5, 2010.

AH ~

Lura

there are never enough cape verdean singers! ~ M'bem di fora (2006) is Lura's 4th album

HORSE FLIES ~

The Horse Flies

One of the finest films ever shot of backcountry New England — Where the Rivers Flow North — has The Horse Flies holding the helm of the music soundtrack.

POOR BOY MEETS AN ANGEL ~

William Blake "The Angel"

I get goose bumps on my arms with this song ~ a copy I once borrowed, don't own, and can find very little about. Maybe the best kind.

NEW YEAR'S DAY ~

dance your heart out

JACK OF HEARTS ~

from Bob Dylan's 15th studio album Blood on the Tracks (1975) and return to Columbia Records after a few years gone to Asylum Records, not the best of moves. Another one of those albums found in most record collections. Dylan's son Jakob has said, "The songs are my parents talking."

EVERGREEN ~

Barbra Streisand











like carole king, barbra streisand will turn 70 years old this year
140 million albums, and counting, sold worldwide

BAD BOY ~

Carole King

King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s. Her chart-breaking album Tapestry (1971) was once owned by nearly everyone.

EARTH ~

Virginia Rodrigues

a song that just rises up out of the warm high grasses

RUM & COKE ~

MARAUDER ~

Kendra Smith

a richard farina song

MORNING DANCE ~

Carson Arnold

The musician, now age 26 and a drummer in four bands, home recorded this composition as a teenager, playing on a child's xylophone.










© carson arnold

MIRROR ~

EARTH
HEART



bob arnold
new year!
2012

HOUND DOG ~

Theodore Roosevelt Taylor (Hound Dog Taylor)

live late at night

BALL & CHAIN ~

Mike Ness

fannelis.com

PARDON ME ~

Andre Williams

theyaretheimitators.com

PASSENGER ~

Iggy Pop











backseat

HUNTER ~

Hunter S. Thompson










photo : lex patriates