Well another year has passed and I can hardly believe we are entering the second…
The Basement Rug Posts
The drummer and former producer for Epic records recorded with Bob Dylan, Buddy Greco, Chubby Checker, Frankie Valle, Bobby Rydell, The Tokens, Len Barry, Little Eva, Simon and Garfunkel, Peter, Paul & Mary, and John Cale.
Money is an article of faith and the basis of a religion so corrupt that our “faith is fraying”, as Margaret Atwood put it. “Has it taken on the attributes of a god – unpredictable, all-powerful, uncontrollable? And if so, how can any government anywhere make any sort of plan about anything? Gods have another attribute: they aren’t accountable. You can’t put a god in jail.”
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:16:22 — 105.0MB)
Read the PostBailout Blues for the Broke and Busted – part 2
Inspired by his five-month trip across Canada in 1969, Norman Symonds’ “Big Lonely” – an ode to the Canadian hobo – was the result of a “creative watershed”. This 1975 recording was performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada for Radio Canada International.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 34:08 — 47.3MB)
If you have an idea for a band name, feel free to post them in the comments below, including any explanation as to why you chose such a name, if you wish.
5 hours of music from the various recording artists that died in 2013. Dedicated to the many loving families I know who experienced such great loss this year. May 2014 bring you peace and may your days be filled with much joy and adventure.