RIP Bill Withers (& SOTD)

Ain't No Sunshine When He's Gone...
Bill Withers was 81 and he retired from the music scene back in 1985.


(SOTD) 2day: Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder and John Legend perform "Lean On Me" at the 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

Essential listening: Live at Carnegie Hall, his album from 1972, released in 1973
*Rolling Stone ranked the recording 27th on the magazine's list of the 50 greatest live albums.*

Bob Dylan-Murder Most Foul (SOTD)

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...what better time than now (that is y-day, Saturday 28.03.2020), an overlong dark and bleak song about apparently JFKs death, and more so about pop culture, name dropping galore, and finally about the CH 19 pandemic...

-Better not show your faces after the sun goes down-

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title comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet act 2, 

(Ghost): Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural.                                                                  ***

-Bare with patience and listen to the lyrics, they're on the screen, 

It's Dylan-s longest song 2 date (17 mins) and his 1st original material since 2012s Tempest. 

Of course, like all things Dylan, “Murder Most Foul” isn’t for everyone. It’s length alone will be off-putting to all but the most diehard Dylanologist. (NBC News, comparing it with The Irishman of songs ;) 

must be a sign, wrote about this rambling on for an hour, saved it, and now erased it by myself....

                  Play "Love Me or Leave Me" by the great Bud Powell
                      Play "The Blood-Stained Banner", play "Murder Most Foul"
Dylans message about the new song fom his own site here.

RIP Stefan Sileanu

Gone again :(
Stefan Sileanu avea 80 de ani. Actor de teatru si film, voce impunatoare, prestanta, a fost imaginea lui Vlad Tepes in singurul film romanesc facut in perioada Ceausescu despre...Vlad Tepes (1978). Film care a mers bine la import si care a a parut si pe dvd, si il dam si noi la Dracula Film Festival, speram sa il dam din nou in octombrie, in memoria lui. RIP...
Filmul il puteti (re)vedea deocamdata pe youtube aici. Regia Doru Nastase, -parintele-lui Margelatu.
Notă: Pe Vlad Tepes l-a jucat și Virgil Ogasanu dar într-un rol seundar, în Sageata Capitanului Ion (1973, Aurel Miheles).

RIP Kenny Rogers & SOTD

well, mom's faved country man, 1st I ever heard of, in my childhood...is now gone, on 22.03.2020, he was 81.
I moved on to -real music-and gave Country another shot in 30 years, now renamed Americana :D
For me it was a major turning point when I heard (as anyone), My Condition was In (I just dropped in), in THE BIG LEBOWSKI, by ...Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. Awesome, but thought, wow, this can not be THAT Kenny Rogers...well, it was that one, yep ! And  from that day on, I looked at KR with another eyes.  Well, now I know its Mickey Newbury's song, well, (his version is on a sad tone), composed in 1967 for Jerry Lee Lewis who rejected it. But a whole world knows it via The Dude and Big L.
here's a Willie Nelson cover !
well, he played Brasov in 1995, I should've gone to see him...young and stupid :), oh, yeah like now Im old and wise :D I played My Condition last night, today and tonight, and more Kenny, from The Gambler to Islands on a Stream , with Dolly Parton. But this song (I just Drooped in) fascinates me most and its many covers, well, My condition was IN...

hello updates, just discovered an excellent new version of Mickey Newbury-s song by our friends, the Cinelli Brothers, published April 20th 2020 on youtube. Here it is !