What Are You Listening To - April, 2024

[Speak Easy]

 

[Speak Easy]

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

Listening to Daniel Johnston (1961 – 2019) and copying from the NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert site:
"A troubled soul with a talent for writing honest, disarmingly direct songs..."

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

De La Soul - Me Myself and I

 

[Speak Easy]

 

[Speak Easy]

 

[dottlejockey]

Chopin Op.9 No.1 in B flat minor after mowing the lawn and considering my next pipe.

 

[huntertrw]

This is the first rockabilly song that I ever recall hearing, and it was played on a warm summer afternoon on a large outdoor jukebox at a concession stand in a public park in my home state. I loved it then, and I still love it today:

 

[huntertrw]

In that same rockabilly vein, Mac Davis hit this home run some 17 years later:

 

[Speak Easy]

 

[huntertrw]

Heard this earlier this week on SiriusXM's Siriusly Sinatra and did a double-take at Mr. Martin's lyrical improvisation on the Johnston and Burke standard Pennies From Heaven. Enjoy!

 

[keith929]

Herbie Hancock 4/12/1940.

 

[huntertrw]

Now for something totally different: bluegrass group Benson (mandolin player Wayne Benson and his banjo playing wife Kristin) playing Conway. Kristin won the International Bluegrass Music Association's Banjo Player of the Year award in 2023.

 

[Bengel]

 

[renfield]

Now playing Rush - Exit...Stage Left​

 

[Bengel]

 

[Bengel]

 

[Bengel]

 

[Bourbonandcigars]

Strangelove by Depeche Mode. Wile smoking briar fox and a savinelli bings favorite billiard

 

[Bengel]