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MB's Music Choices
« on: January 12, 2009, 12:53:57 AM »
So a few podcasts ago, Mr. Bane featured a song by Tom Russell entitled "Tonight We Ride"...I loved it and looked up some more Tom Russell songs and that guy is amazing! My favorite is "Sitting Bull in Venice", a haunting reminder of the debauchery of Anglo-Saxon society and the the concept of a "noble savage". I have probably listened to that song 100 times since then. It is amazing!

An excerpt;
     "I've seen the Eiffel Tower, I've seen the wonders of your world, saloons where drunken white men stare at naked dancing girls,
      but I close my eyes and see the Bighorn Valley, harvest moons ago and the bloody hair of Custer hanging from our victory pole."

That's song writing at its finest!

Sitting Bull in Venice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhw-U-puV4
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Re: MB's Music Choices
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2009, 09:53:29 AM »
Quote from: sanjuancb on January 12, 2009, 12:53:57 AM
So a few podcasts ago, Mr. Bane featured a song by Tom Russell entitled "Tonight We Ride"...I loved it and looked up some more Tom Russell songs and that guy is amazing! My favorite is "Sitting Bull in Venice", a haunting reminder of the debauchery of Anglo-Saxon society and the the concept of a "noble savage". I have probably listened to that song 100 times since then. It is amazing!

An excerpt;
     "I've seen the Eiffel Tower, I've seen the wonders of your world, saloons where drunken white men stare at naked dancing girls,
      but I close my eyes and see the Bighorn Valley, harvest moons ago and the bloody hair of Custer hanging from our victory pole."

That's song writing at its finest!

Sitting Bull in Venice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhw-U-puV4

I would bet  MB has one heck of music collection.

Would love to hear a pod cast of MB fav's  ;D
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Re: MB's Music Choices
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2009, 10:33:58 AM »
Ironically, I don't have nearly the music collection I did back when I was a music critic in NYC. When I left NYC I needed cash for a down payment on a house....I sold off several thousand vinyl records for traveling money. I tend to be an eclectic consumer of iTunes singles. My expertise is in rockabilly (actually Memphis music) and country, although I did once write a rock and roll encyclopedia that became one of the most stolen books from public libraries for a coule of years running.

Since I wrote WHITE BOY SINGING THE BLUES back in the 1970s, my theories on why Memphis became the center of American popular culture have become accepted "academic" doctrine...why one should never believe academic doctrine! As I've mentioned before, when I moved to Colorado a professor at the U of Col asked me to speak to his class on popular culture — he said he'd been teaching WHITE BOYS for more than a decade. He even let me take a test on WHITE BOYS...I failed.

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Re: MB's Music Choices
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2009, 10:34:19 AM »
Quote from: shooter32 on January 12, 2009, 09:53:29 AM
I would bet  MB has one heck of music collection.

Would love to hear a pod cast of MB fav's  ;D

Or he could at the very least post a list...
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Re: MB's Music Choices
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2009, 10:36:02 AM »
Quote from: Michael Bane on January 12, 2009, 10:33:58 AM
He even let me take a test on WHITE BOYS...I failed.

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Re: MB's Music Choices
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2009, 10:38:09 AM »
Quote from: ericire12 on January 12, 2009, 10:34:19 AM
Or he could at the very least post a list...

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Re: MB's Music Choices
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2009, 12:44:55 PM »
As a recovering academic, I agree with the assertion not to trust academic doctrine.  Be familiar with it, yes, but be aware it is fatally flawed by ossification.  There are teachers out there who have not changed their teaching or lecture notes in 20 or 30 years.  The invention of the power point presentation has only made this bad behavior worse.  Have a nice day.
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