Category: Music
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Brandi Carlile cover contest
Brandi Carlile has a cover contest going right now. Top 5 will be picked by YouTube view counts and then judges will select the winner among them. Winner gets a trip to Los Angeles and some time on stage with the band at The Orpheum Theater. Here’s my entry, which includes some cheezy mini-me effects…
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French music que j’aime
I’ve told you about my music problem, right? I grew up in small-town Idaho where the only radio stations were hard rock, Top 40, pop country, and painfully easy listening. But we had a Rainbow Records store. In the age of Spotify and YouTube it feels so foreign now that I would wait for the weekly…
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Merry Christmas 2016!
Dueling time-lapse videos – Christmas Eve taffy pull vs. Christmas morning excitement: Oh Little Town of Bethlehem in matching pajamas: In the Bleak Midwinter, also in matching pajamas:
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It Is Well With My Soul
This is a favorite Christian hymn, lyrics written by Horatio Spafford in the 1870s after his 2-yr-old son died in the Great Chicago Fire, his finances fell apart, and his four daughters drowned in a shipwreck. It has been a source of comfort for me. Chris Rice has a great version in his Hymns Project.…
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When The Ship Comes In
Congratulations to Bob Dylan who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature today. Here’s one of my favorites, written when he was 22.