Epitaph by King Crimson
Monday, 26 October 2015 15:19 | Written by bluesever | 
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Epitaph by King Crimson
"And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings."- William Shakespeare, King Richard II
Epitaph
The In the Court of the Crimson King album is generally viewed as one of the first works to truly embody the progressive rock genre, where King Crimson largely departed from the blues influences that rock...
"And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings."- William Shakespeare, King Richard II
Epitaph
The In the Court of the Crimson King album is generally viewed as one of the first works to truly embody the progressive rock genre, where King Crimson largely departed from the blues influences that rock...
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Backwater Blues
Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:25 | Written by bluesever |
Backwater Blues
Bessie Smith recorded “Backwater Blues” in 1927, and it became an anthem for one of the most devastating national disasters in US history. The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was horrific. About a thousand people lost their lives. Almost half a million homes were destroyed. Almost a million people became homeless for a time. Entire black neighborhoods were wiped out. This incident gave birth to an important blues era, now known as the Delta Blues era. The blues artists... Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D Minor
Wednesday, 23 September 2015 16:43 | Written by bluesever |
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D Minor
On the eve of Jan. 26, 1936 Joseph Stalin and his entourage attended a performance of Shostakovich's “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” but they left the theater before the last act. The opera had been playing to acclaim for two years in Moscow and its 29-year-old composer was hailed a Russian musical genius, beloved by his fellow countrymen. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D Minor A few days after Stalin's ominous attendance, a... |
Crimson & Clover
Thursday, 01 October 2015 21:32 | Written by bluesever |
Crimson & Clover
It's pretty much a three-chord pop song with inarticulate lyrics, but Tommy James and the Shondells' classic is up there with the best. The weird logic of dreams. Images, colours, nonsense word combinations. They seem to make sense. Tommy James woke up one day with the phrase ‘Crimson & Clover’ in his head. Crimson, his favourite colour, clover, his favourite flower. (There is also a species of clover native to Europe called the crimson clover.) Crimson &... Fats Waller’s Ain't Misbehavin'
Saturday, 05 September 2015 21:23 | Written by bluesever |
Fats Waller’s Ain't Misbehavin'
The history of the song has always been shrouded in legend. Waller himself used to like to say that he wrote it while in jail for failure to pay alimony. Some biographers have taken this as fact, but Razaf himself cleared up the mess in a 1966 letter to Bob Kumm, writing: “There is no truth to the widely circulated erroneous story about ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’ being written while Fats was in prison. The song was written by Fats and myself at his West... |
