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via friends.peoria.lib.il.us Of the musi­cians, only David Mur­ray is still alive. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

Have always loved this tune, for its har­mon­ics, its melod­ics and the way it makes you feel.  Great filmed performance.

via amycrehore.blogspot.com Catch this clip using an early sound/video record­ing process (Vita­phone). Sooth­ing and ener­giz­ing all at once: a pop music curios­ity. Thanks to Amy Cre­hore at Lit­tle Hokum Rag for dig­ging this up. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

via tsutpen.blogspot.com Such a gifted, bal­anced singer that she could take trea­cle and turn it into tran­scen­dence. Go lis­ten to her to close out the decade and remem­ber when the big band behind the voice was designed to ele­vate the voice, pro­vide the har­monies and fea­ture the song. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

via youtube.com Happy Hol­i­days to every­one. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

via tsutpen.blogspot.com Easy, serene and pow­er­ful. What an incred­i­ble talent.

via youtube.com I love type­faces. So do these guys. And they like music. And they aren’t par­tic­u­larly self-conscious. And they’ve got access to video edit­ing skills. The outcome: Fun.

For the first half, I sat in the room with her. She was cov­ered with a white sheet and slid into the mas­sive dough­nut of the machine. Another per­son might see the image mor­bidly, as if she was half slid out of a mor­tu­ary stor­age slot. I didn’t see an image at all; just my […]

via marshallphoto.com There are all kinds of silence. When I lis­ten to Johnny Cash I’m struck by the way he strug­gles to resign him­self to the pell-mell chaos of life, and how his frus­tra­tions turn into a sim­mer­ing anger. Then there are the quiet moments that get cap­tured in pho­tos. It’s like he’s pulled over […]