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A Confession as I'm now entering the second half of my first century


Posted on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:08 — by whirledpeas
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I can't keep this to myself anymore.  I love all kinds of music. I turned 50 ealier in the year and I'm finding all kinds of new artists that are making some great music. I just watched a program on CMT called Crossroads. It featured Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin) and Alison Krauss (of Union Station ) I knew they were playing several dates around the country and although I like both of them I was having a hard time visualizing what they would do together. It is a Folk, Rockabilly, Blues kind of thing. Just incredible stuff. I have also taken to listening to Rosalie Howarth  on KFOG 104.5 on Sunday mornings from 7-12 am for Accoustic Sunrise. She plays more new good music than I can keep track of. You can go to  http://www.kfog.com/shows/acoustic.asp   Here's a list from the website of what she played yesterday from 7-9  7 AM:AFTER THE GOLD RUSH -NEIL -AFTER THE GOLD RUSH ARE YOU ALRIGHT?* LUCINDA WILLIAMS - WEST TO LOVE* DAVID WILCOX - AIRSTREAM WONDER (ACOUSTIC) - NATALIE MERCHANT - KFOG RARITY DON"T WANT YOU TO WAKE UP* TEITUR -STAY UNDER THE STARS 100 YEARS (ACOUSTIC) FIVE FOR FIGHTING -KFOG ARCHIVES BUSY THINKING "BOUT TODAY* PHIL ROY - THE GREAT LONGING BOHEMIA -MAE MOORE -BOHEMIA LOOKING AT THE WORLD...(AC) MIKE DOUGHTY -KFOG RARITY PATRICK SPENCE* KRIS DREVER -BLACK WATER LOST CAUSE BECK -SEA CHANGE SAIL AWAY RANDY NEWMAN -SAIL AWAY SUNRISE NORAH JONES -FEELS LIKE HOME 8 AM THESE DAYS -GREGG ALLMAN - LAID BACK DOWNPOUR* BRANDI CARLILE -THE STORY TELL ME WHY* HANS YORK -YOUNG AMELIA EVERYBODY HURTS - CORRS -MTV UNPLUGGED (IMPORT) CHIMES OF FREEDOM - KENNEDYS - HALF A MILLION MILES DIAMONDS ON THE INSIDE - BEN HARPER -KFOG ARCHIVES SOMETHING TO ME* TIFT MERRITT 12 -ANOTHER COUNTRY ON THE 4TH OF JULY - JAMES TAYLOR - OCTOBER ROAD DRIVER 8 - HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH - SCATTERED, SMOTHERED, & COVERED  4TH OF JULY - AIMEE MANN -KFOG ARCHIVES HOUSE IN CALIFORNIA - KEB MO -KEEP IT SIMPLE SAN FRANCISCO DAYS CHRIS ISAAK -SAN FRANCISCO DAYS 9 AM Hour PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE) SHAWN COLVIN -BONUS TRK W/B&N PURCHASE OF NEW CD TALL COTTON* ERIC BIBB -DIAMOND DAYS SWEET EMOTION - LEO KOTTKE -SIXTY-SIX STEPS MIKE GORDON SAILING TO PHILADELPHIA - MARK KNOPFLER/JAMES TAYLOR  -SAILING TO PHILADELPHIA I"M NOT DROWNING* STEVE WINWOOD -NINE LIVES KISS ME, MISS LIBERTY - JOHN WESLEY HARDING -NEW DEAL HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN - SHAWN MULLINS -KFOG ARCHIVES LET ME BE YOUR WITNESS* MARC COHN - JOIN THE PARADE ONE VOICE* WAILIN" JENNYS -WOMEN OF THE WORLD ACOUSTIC DON"T LET ME DOWN - BARTRON-TYLER GROUP -LIKE A METAPHOR 2004 UNCLE JOHN"S BAND - INDIGO GIRLS -DEADICATED 2004 BREAKABLE* INGRID MICHAELSON - GIRLS AND BOYS PILGRIM* JOSH ROUSE - COUNTRY MOUSE CITY HOUSE ROXANNE (SPOB) -STING -SECRET POLICEMAN"S OTHER BALL I'm sitting listening to KFOG with iTunes pulled up on my laptop buying some of this music as it's being played.  I feel like I did when I was 20 in College. There is so much good music right now. You never hear it on the radio unless you listen to Rosalie.  I can't begin to thank KFOG and Rosalie for playing these great new kids (I can say that now...I'm 50 so there) plus all the outstanding older stuff and music from the archives or from the KFOG playspace that you can't get anywhere. I'm driving my wife and teenagers crazy. There...Thank You... I fell much better now. Peas  
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Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:24 — KFOG is all I listen to at
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KFOG is all I listen to at work. The 10 at 10's are blasts from the past that can be fun. I can't say in all these years I've ever checked out the Acoustic Sunrise show even though I'm up before the roosters crow. Now that Russert's gone maybe I'll have to try going cold turkey from Meet The Press although I still look forward to CBS Sunday Morning.
Tue, 07/08/2008 - 15:36 — I haven't met a music that I
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I haven't met a music that I didn't like.  Although, at this time I have to admit,  I listen to a lot of "Smooth Jazz,"...... particularly soothing for the anxieties of the over 50 crowd.  Congratulation on your crossover to enlightenment.   Fifty was OK for me,  60 was more of an ordeal;  I finally had to admit to myself that I wasn't "Cool" anymore. 
Tue, 07/08/2008 - 16:16 — If you think your not cool at 60
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Take two of these and call me in the morning! Clapton, Stones, Bonnie Rait , Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townsend A trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of fame in Cleveland will also make you feel like a very wise sage.  60 is cool, as long as you don't have a tag on your toe! If you want to feel young listen to some of Nirvana unplugged.
Tue, 07/08/2008 - 17:52 — Did the Eagles make your
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Did the Eagles make your short list?  They have the best sing along lyics I know of, other than Margaritaville.  
Tue, 07/08/2008 - 19:11 — Where's the lime???? Where's the lime?????
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Chewy, I think you're getting your agave mixed too much in the blender. Don't you mean Tequila Sunrise? Margaritaville is a Jimmy Buffett tune dude.
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 14:06 — Mr. Stoney
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Stoney,  I was talking about the great sing-alongs.   After a couple-few "feel good" Budweisers .......  "Margaritaville" is the greatest sing along song of all time.  Followed closely by Eagles..... "there's a girl my Lord, in a flat bed Ford, slowing down to take a look at me......"   Pure music poetry.  :)
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 20:01 — Chewy I realize musical taste is a matter of personal preference
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 And since I have no taste whatsoever I would have to politely disagree with you. Margaritaville, while an oustanding sing along tune can't hold a candle to another Jimmy Buffet song used in the the soundtrack of 2 different 70's  "B" movies, Rancho Deluxe, and "FM".  And while the word filter prevents me from posting the entire title to the song I think if I just  mention "Why don't we get drunk and scr**"  You may be able to decode the word.   It's quite a rousing number that just makes you happy to sing it out loud.  I would however, from personal experience, refrain from singing it on Sundays between the pew's, at you wife's family's big reunion, or at the Company Christmas Party while waltzing the boss's daughter around the punchbowl.  These have been shown to cause a shortening of marriage, employment,  and stature in the community.  Among the OFEC's though I would have to think most would join right in. Peas be with you!
Tue, 07/08/2008 - 21:56 — Don't get me wrong
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I like the Eagles. I also like Jimmy Buffet although as I've gotten older I find his books more interesting than his music.  
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 07:50 — I like all that stuff you
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I like all that stuff you guys mentioned, even the blugrass sounds of Allison Krauss and Union Station.  We let our kids take over the car cd and most of their burned dics contain loud screaming incoherent and irritating music, but last time some songs they burned sounded like the kind of old classic tracks we listened to.  Kind of like a mix between Zeppelin and Clapton.  They said the name was Wolfmother, and the guys are like 16 years old from Australia.  I could handle them and hope young people's music goes this direction.   They did a song "Woman" on the Letterman show.  Another good one is called the "Joker and the Thief."  Every song I've heard I've liked the first time, but I'm trying to restrain myself and act cool because if my kids find out I like them, they'll stop listening to them! Tell me this doesn't remind you of Cream with some Steppenwolf riffs thrown in! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyQ1wRTaS8  
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 14:25 — Good stuff BJ. I'll have to
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Good stuff BJ. I'll have to check with my kids on Wolfmother. My son has me listening to The Bone 107.7 whenever he is in the car now, and coming back from his recent baseball tournament we heard J. Geils' Musta Got Lost in its entirety. That whole Reputa the Beauta part is awesome, and since you had recently brought it up on another thread, I was listening intently. It really was a precurser to today's rap, but in a more rock'n'roll fashion if that is possible. They have a listener playlist time when listeners can order up an entire hour of songs. A lot of variety in what gets played as it is not just some DJ's favorites.
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 15:40 — The newer J. Geils stuff was
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The newer J. Geils stuff was just as good as the old.  Remember "Love Stinks?"  Yeah, yeah. Every Thanksgiving I tune into KFOG to hear the long version of Alice's Restaurant.    
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 19:29 — Alice's Restaurant.
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As in....."The 8X10 glossies, with the circles and the arrows and the paragraph on the back explaining each" ?  
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 19:37 — And the Judge came in with a seeing eye dog.
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 What er ya in for.......littering And they all moved away from me there on the group W bench until I said "And creatin a disturbance"  
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 19:38 — And the Judge came in with a seeing eye dog.
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A typical case of American blind justice!
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 20:50 — "I wanna see blood and guts
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"I wanna see blood and guts and veins in my teeth! I wanna kill, kill, kill!!!"
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 21:17 — ALICE"S RESTAURANT
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Did you ever see the movie made from the song? Arlo was the lead star. It had it's moments but still only one thumb up. His second movie effort in which he had a small part, "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" shows why he will always be known as a singer. 
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 21:41 — Nirvana unplugged
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You know I was with my daughter when she was watching the MTV Unplugged with Nirvana. When I said that I actually like a couple of the songs I thought she was going to have a stroke! I tried but could not convert her to Eric Clapton.

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