Category: Music

Bill Graham’s Rock Archives Stream Online

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Reuters:

Some of rock’s most intriguing content is now in cyberspace via the Wolfgang’s Vault Web site. The memorabilia seller offers treasures from the stash of promoter Bill Graham, programmer of San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, who died in 1991.

A 75-song playlist culled from 7,000 to 8,000 vintage audio and video concert recordings made between 1966 and 1999 began streaming on the Wolfgang’s Vault Web site Feb. 8, at no cost to consumers. The owner of the Graham archive is optimistic that some of the seminal performances will make it to retailers’ shelves as CDs and DVDs by year’s end.

Rosanne Cash Black Cadillac Gives Grief a Lift

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CBS Sunday Morning:

his past week, Cash released what is perhaps her most personal album to date — and what might just be her finest: “Black Cadillac.” It’s a musical memoir of mortality, loss and redemption.

Cash explains that the album served as a catharsis.

“The writing of it was a release in a way,” she says. “And so to bring my reason and discipline and my sense of poetry to this — these feelings that something manageable, this tremendous sense of grief and loss, to bring all of those things to this, to this kind of tidal wave of feelings was useful to me.”

Rosanne Cash’s Latest: Black Cadillac

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I heard a bit of this new music on LA’s KCRW last week. Rather promising. Alan Light has more:

Relationships between parents and children, between the past and the future, between public and private lives are among the threads running through Ms. Cash’s new album, “Black Cadillac” (which is being released this week on Capitol). Its 12 songs were written between the spring of 2003 and the spring of 2005, a period in which Ms. Cash, now 50, lost three parents: her mother, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin; her stepmother, June Carter Cash; and, in between, her father, Johnny Cash.

NPR: The Best CD’s You Didn’t Hear This Year

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Michele Norris:

Every year 35,000 new CDs are released. With all those artists clamoring for an audience, it’s not surprising that some musical gems get overlooked.

As the year comes to a close, NPR asked a few people who monitor the music business to comb through their files to share a few of this year’s releases that, in their view, didn’t get the attention they deserved.

10+100 Creative Commons Christmas Songs (MP3’s!!)

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Uwe Hermann:

So, it’s Christmas today (or it will be tomorrow, depending on where you live). Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a bunch of freely and legally available Christmas songs you could listen to all day? Burn on CDs and hand over to your relatives? Share with your friends without the fear of being sued to death by big record labels?
Well, here’s a list of 110 111 songs which are all explicitly released under a Creative Commons license (no, I did not consider songs which are merely “podsafe”!) and thus can be shared, listened to, and sometimes even modified freely. There’s a great variety in style, mood, and genre of the songs: some traditional, some contemporary, some happy, some sad, and some just plain funny

Best Songs of 2005

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All Songs Considered:

ll Songs Considered host Bob Boilen counts down listener picks for the 10 best CDs of 2005, with NPR music reviewers Will Hermes, Tom Moon and Meredith Ochs. They also share some of their own favorites from the year and take calls from listeners. This program originally webcast live on NPR.org Dec. 16, 2005. Below are the top 10 CDs of 2005 chosen in our online poll, with select comments from the listeners who love them.