Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Crow shows versatility in mostly solid performance
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
A song composed by Bob Marley in 1967, and first made popular by Johnny Nash, peaking on the UK chart in June 1972. When Bob Marley returned to Jamaica from the United States in 1967, The Wailers started their own label, ‘Wail'n Soul'm’ records, and released their first independent single "Freedom Time" backed with "Bend Down Low." "Nice Time," "Hypocrites," "Mellow Mood," "Thank You Lord," and "Stir...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
“The Mighty Hercules” Golden Records. A Trans-Lux Television Presentation, Produced by Adventure Cartoons for Television Inc., The Mighty Hercules followed the adventures of mythology’s son of Zeus. Hercules traveled with his companions Helena, Newton a centaur, Prince Dorian and Tewt a satyr. The main recurring villain was Daedalius, the evil wizard. [...]
Streatham & Brixton Chess Club (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
So sang Johnny Nash in 1972, evidently unaware of such fundamental algebraic concepts as over and underdetermined systems. There is a long and noble tradition of outright lies in pop music (it is eminently possible that I might have seen something like the Mighty Quinn, for example, and I am not entirely sure that Chairman Mao 'dug' repetition, either), but usually that wonderful catch-all excuse,...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Perhaps Johnny Nash should be singing, "I can see energy now."
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Perhaps Johnny Nash should be singing, "I can see energy now."
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Perhaps Johnny Nash should be singing, "I can see energy now." Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that turns windows into a solar collector, letting people see clearly while collecting energy. A coating on the...
with comb & razor (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
When I picked up this album in a Lagos market about eight years ago, I was motivated less by any curiosity about the music it contained than I was by my interest in vintage women's fashion and glamour photography. Fortuitously, when I got the LP back home I found that its pleasures extended beyond just the resplendently arrayed beauties pictured on its cover; it was, in fact, a rather solid record...
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
When I have the worst sinus headache ever and can't breathe through either nostril because of allergies, I'm reduced to using the e-mails from one of my sisters. But before that, one Sentential Link that struck me: [Gram] Parsons is such a cutie in those old pics, that it almost makes you wonder what he'd look like had he lived. Would he have the rugged, survived-the-hard-life handsomeness of Kris...
FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
(#373, 12th July 1975)Less pillow, more comfort blanket, this gentle, stringsified reggae lope starts with a promise of heartbreak - that bowed and broken intro - which the lyrics might keep but the music doesn’t. It’s not that reggae songs can’t be sad, but ones as jauntily and lightly played as this would find it [...]
Jurisdynamics (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
Johnny Nash, I Can See Clearly Now (1972) I t has been quite the month at Jurisdynamics . Beginning with Schattenfreude , this month has brought extraordinary joy to me as a blogger. I will always treasure this blog's February 2008 archive . I leave this month with a musical treat for myself and for the faithful readers who have stayed with Jurisdynamics and its affiliated weblogs throughout the past...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 21/02/2008
Vivendi's Universal Music, the world's biggest music company, sold 90,000 songs yesterday, including the European publishing rights to most of the Spice Girls' hits, for about £75 million.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 16/02/2008
Vocalist/composer Chris Humphreya(TM)s release Nothing but Blue Sky continues a recent trend of jazz vocal recordings that feature the vocalist backed sparingly with a piano trio or less instrumentation, without brass or reeds. This enables craftsmen like Humphrey to both explore and display their talents for both singing and, in the case of Humphrey, arranging the music he sings...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 30/01/2008
In Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood, Kim Wall is raising the profile of Ma Baensch herring, while providing...
Boring Like A Drill (Free subscription) | 16/12/2007
I know I missed at least one survey while I was in Australia, so this was the last update. For the first sixteen songs it looked like this was shaping up into a perfect list, with no duds at all. It starts masterfully with an unexpected opener in "The Three Bells" (a song, bizarrely, once covered by Tina Arena) before building up to a thrilling climax with the unforgettable Liv Maesson . Then everything...
