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I'm listening to Strangelove a lot at the moment, a British band that I only discovered last week. They were active in the 90s but I missed them first time around. They are often lumped in with the Britpop crowd but they have a very different sound, very dark. I'm sure you Doors fans would appreciate them. Check them out if you're not already familiar with them.

Here is a link to their first album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lsQn2ggcq8

If anyone could tell me the time signature to the song that starts around 41:00 I'd be very grateful, I can't get my head around it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiA

Paul Pena - Jet Airliner (The Original)

This is the original version of Jet Airliner. The song was made famous by Steve Miller Band after he received an unreleased copy of Paul's album New Train.

Due to problems with famous manager Albert Grossman, Paul Pena's phenomenal album New Train didn't get released for almost 30 years. It's a truly amazing work of art.

While Steve Millers version is fantastic and a great cover, Paul's original version is out of this world. It's a very deep and heartfelt song. Paul, who was completely blind by the age of 20, sings of his experience on an airplane trip from Boston to Montreal to play the first-ever date with T-Bone Walker's band.

Most of Paul's income came from the royalties for writing this great song. He later was the focal point of the award winning documentary "Genghis Blues."

Sadly, Paul passed away in 2005 after a long bout with Pancreatitis.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBS-ARknJvM

Paul Pena - "The River"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm4hbORBbQ0

Paul Pena - "Gonna Move"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itrN11AwNMo

Paul Pena, "Tuva Farewell ".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfW-qiLcUCE

Paul Pena~ "New Train" .The title track from Paul Pena's wonderful 73' album. It's a shame it took 27 years to be released. Jerry Garcia graces the steel pedal on this track. Merl Saunders can be found playing the boards


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ibAMuq_Jo

Paul Pena -" Woke Up This Morning"



....simply put- amazing....beautiful !!!! :mrgreen: =)
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Paul Pena (January 26, 1950 – October 1, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist of Cape Verdean descent.

His music from the first half of his career touched on Delta blues, jazz, morna, flamenco, folk and rock and roll. Pena is probably best known for writing the song "Jet Airliner," a major 1977 hit for the Steve Miller Band and a staple of classic rock radio; and for appearing in the 1999 documentary film Genghis Blues, wherein he displayed his abilities in the field of Tuvan throat singing

Early years[edit]Pena was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts. His grandparents were from the islands of Brava and Fogo in the Cape Verde islands off the western coast of Africa, and emigrated to the United States in 1919. Pena spoke Cape Verdean Creole with his family while growing up. His grandfather, Francisco Pena, and father, Joaquim "Jack" Pena, were both professional musicians, and taught Paul to play Cape Verdean music, including Morna. Pena performed professionally with his father, including a summer spent in Spain and Portugal, where he studied flamenco music.

Pena was born with congenital glaucoma. He attended the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, from the age of 5, and graduated in 1967. He then attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Pena was completely blind by the time he was 20.

Musical career[edit]In February 1969, Pena's band played for a week at The Electric Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, opening twice for both Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and The Grateful Dead.[1] Pena performed in the Contemporary Composer's Workshop at the Newport Folk Festival the same year. He also played in the T-Bone Walker Blues Band during the early 1970s, including an appearance in the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1972. He played bass guitar and provided backup vocals on Bonnie Raitt's debut album.

After moving to San Francisco in 1971, Pena called the Grateful Dead office, which helped find him work. He opened for Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Keystone in Berkeley and other area clubs many times over the course of the next three years. Pena said of Keystone owner Freddie Herrera, "His idea of an audition was for me to come and open up for Garcia and Saunders. That went on for some time. Whenever he would have somebody, not knowing who would open, he would call me."[2]

Pena's debut album was the self-titled Paul Pena, recorded with guitarist Jeff Baxter, drummer Juma Santos, and former Perkins classmate Ellis Hall on backing vocals, and released by Capitol Records in 1972. His follow-up album New Train was recorded in 1973 by Bearsville Records and was produced by Ben Sidran (keyboardist for the Steve Miller Band). New Train featured Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, and The Persuasions. Albert Grossman, the owner of Bearsville Records (and best known as the manager of Bob Dylan), stopped release of the record after a dispute with Pena and his then-manager, Dr. Gunther Weil. Pena remained contractually obligated to Grossman, and was unable to record for another label.

Sidran gave an unreleased copy of New Train to Steve Miller, who recorded "Jet Airliner" with the Steve Miller Band for the 1977 album Book of Dreams. Miller's version of "Jet Airliner" was a hit single, and went to #8 on the charts. Pena's primary source of income in his later years were royalties from that single, which was a song about Pena's airplane trip from Boston to Montreal to play the first-ever date with T-Bone Walker's band.

Pena temporarily suspended his musical career to care for his wife, Babe, who was suffering from kidney failure. She died in 1991.

New Train was finally released in 2000, 27 years after it was recorded. In 2001 Pena conducted his last tour, playing a number of dates in support of the album. He opened shows for The String Cheese Incident in March of that year, and for Bob Weir's Ratdog in April. He was a presenter at the 22nd annual W. C. Handy Awards in May. He then appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on June 8, 2001, and played "Jet Airliner".

"Gonna Move," a song from New Train, has been covered by a number of artists, including Les Dudek on his 1978 album Ghost Town Parade, Susan Tedeschi on her 2002 album Wait for Me, the Derek Trucks Band on their 2004 album Live at Georgia Theatre, and by Taylor Hicks on 2006's Taylor Hicks. The Derek Trucks Band also covered Pena's song "Something to Make You Happy" on their 2009 Grammy Award winning album Already Free.

Throat singing[edit]While searching for a Korean language lesson on shortwave radio on December 29, 1984, Pena was intrigued by an example of Tuvan throat-singing he heard on a Radio Moscow broadcast. At the same time he heard an interview with the English musician Jill Purce, one of the pioneers of overtone chanting in the West, on KPFA radio in Berkeley, California, and obtained her recording. Seven years later he found a Tuvan record at a local record store called Tuva: Voices From the Center of Asia, and listened to it "continuously".[3] Based on that record and extended experimentation, he was able to teach himself the vocal techniques called Khoomei, Sygyt and Kargyraa:

After playing the CD continuously for several months and driving many of my friends away by making weird noises while experimenting with my voice, I finally learned a few of the basic techniques of this fascinating group of vocal styles by remembering the styles of some of the blues greats of the past – especially Charlie Patton, Tommy McClennan, and Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett.[3]
Pena also taught himself Tuvan. There were no Tuvan to English translation dictionaries, so Pena used two dictionaries: Tuvan to Russian and Russian to English. He used a device called an Optacon to scan the pages and convert the printed words into tactile sensations he could read with his finger.

Pena attended a performance of Tuvan throat-singing at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco on February 6, 1993. He performed an impromptu Tuvan song in the kargyraa style, which impressed famous Tuvan throatsinger Kongar-ol Ondar. Ondar invited Pena to sing in the second international Khoomei Symposium in 1995 in Kyzyl, Tuva. Pena travelled to Tuva and was the first westerner to compete in the Symposium. He placed first in the Kargyraa contest and also won the "audience favorite" category.

Tuvans affectionately call him "Cher Shimjer" (Earthquake), because of the deepness of his voice. Pena said "My voice is lower than most Tuvans. They have a style that makes your voice lower. When I use that, there's a slow song when I hit a note that's four white keys from the left of the piano."[4]

The 1999 film Genghis Blues documented Pena's journey to Tuva. It won the 1999 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for a Documentary. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in 2000 in the Documentary Feature category.

Health issues[edit]In 1997 Pena was severely injured after his bedroom caught fire. He suffered smoke inhalation and was in a coma for four days.

Pena suffered from diabetes. He also waged a long battle with pancreatic illness, and was originally mis-diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He began chemotherapy treatments and doctors gave him six months to live. In 2000 he was properly diagnosed with pancreatitis, a life-threatening illness.

Pena died in his San Francisco, California, apartment of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis on October 1, 2005
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JESSE ED DAVIS

ULULU, by the legendary Jesse Ed Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIOy0sq9is4

To say Jesse was respected and loved by his peers is an understatement!!



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Al Di Meola on his album "All Your Life-Tribute To The Beatles"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27XQsC- ... freload=10


Wonderful, Nicole. Are you lucky enough to get "Uncle" Al to play some tunes in your living room?

A real guitar master. I've loved his work for many years. Jazz/fusion great. Underground FM radio played Al a lot!

That Beatles and More concert sounds amazing. What an fantastic backing band...accordion, strings....
His sets with John McGlaughlin and Paco in the 80's...amazing.

We should talk music sometime, Nicole. PM me anytime. Hope life is good....still dancing the the music with the little ones?


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsXgL7ow

.SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR (1963) by Anne Briggs .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpgkx-OswJ8

.Anne Briggs (1971) (Full Album) .

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lovemygirl wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsXgL7ow

.SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR (1963) by Anne Briggs .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpgkx-OswJ8

.Anne Briggs (1971) (Full Album) .

:mrgreen:
I love Anne Briggs.

From my favorite Anne Briggs LP "A Time Has Come" below---I have it on vinyl
I love it when she accompanies herself on guitar best.

The Time Has Come...from the album of the same name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH9GQOw ... freload=10

:D
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Coltrane - My Favorite Things
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AOIFE O'DONOVAN

I'm Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-WpmU76Gw

Brilliant. Any fans?!
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For weeks and weeks now...
D'Angelo's Black Messiah
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Disc 1 of Boot Yer Butt
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The late great John Renbourn...RIP John.


Farewell Nancy
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Dead Being Alive...Rock & Roll...fuzz and feedback psych rock!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92hbqbN059Y

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Great version of the classic Dust My Broom by Canned Heat, a favorite band of Jim Morrison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHu24OK0-z4
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I bought the David Bowie Five Years LP box set, 13 albums, should take me some time, so far, Excellent!
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Boogie blues rock! Play it loud!

ANDERS OSBORNE - "47" (Live at Telluride Blues & Brews 2013) #JAMINTHEVAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78qgz9sJcE

Damn! That bass is so smooth!

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A world premier of a Waltz written bt Anthony Hopkins 50 years ago! Brilliant, Nicole! Thanks!

Speaking of tributes...today on my playlist.

the late great Guy Clark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buf6P0V45rg
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What are you listening to right now ?
This ;-) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRZ3gugNaX0

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Stefan wrote:What are you listening to right now ?
This ;-) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRZ3gugNaX0

Tschüss, Stefan
Swiss band TOAD-"Stay"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QXZ9OMK_bQ
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@jamestkirk
Thank you for this post ! Never heard ! Seventies Rock !
My favorite Swiss bands ... spontaneously ... "Krokus" and "Yello" ... maybe "Stephan Eicher".

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Stefan wrote:@jamestkirk
Thank you for this post ! Never heard ! Seventies Rock !
My favorite Swiss bands ... spontaneously ... "Krokus" and "Yello" ... maybe "Stephan Eicher".

Tschüss, Stefan
With their single "Stay", Toad almost "single-handedly ushered in Swiss hard rock in the 70's".
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https://youtu.be/xAWtuxhdUDE


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lovemygirl wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsXgL7ow

.SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR (1963) by Anne Briggs .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpgkx-OswJ8

.Anne Briggs (1971) (Full Album) .

:mrgreen:
A wonderful and brilliant lost (to many) artist indeed!
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Light My Fire!!! :D
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGQ1FKXD1QY :D
One of the best radio shows ... Three hours for magic

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