Both gospel and blues are musical traditions rooted in the American South, both are based in tragedy, pain, and misery. But the difference between gospel and blues is that the gospel offers hope. The very nature of the blues is that there is no hope. Your heart is broke, you’re probably going to die from […]
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I remember the first time I heard of Jim Richey; knowing my weakness for the blues, my friend The Celt told me about him. “Imagine there’s this amazing blues guitarist, and he’s an older middle-aged white guy who lives out here in the sticks and works out at the Hab Center as a janitor.” I couldn’t […]
For the past two years Rahne has composed the theme music. For Law of the West, our wild west VBS, I was looking for music that would fit in with a John Ford / John Wayne / Roy Rogers good guy kind of western—not a spaghetti western. When she was working on it, we listened to a lot […]
So you know how you get a song stuck in your head? I’ve had the same one stuck in my head for like three weeks now and it won’t go away. The song is ‘Cuban Pete’ from 1994’s The Mask. It’s really getting on the kids’ nerves, too, because I walk around the house singing it […]
Every time I hear Elvis’s I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You it makes me think of Kaleb’s wife. Hold on–I know I have some ‘splainin’ to do–just give me a second. Music has a way of embedding memories. Trisha Yearwood and Clint Black, appropriately, used music to point this out, in The Song […]
The first cassette tape I ever bought was the soundtrack to Phantom of the Opera (I already had a pirated version, but wanted the real thing). Sarah Brightman played Christine, and I loved her voice. Shortly after I bought this I started hanging around with Noodles. She did not think very much of Ms. Brightman’s […]
Nostalgia You know how you have fond memories of a TV show or movie from when you were young, and when you finally get to see it again as an adult (or in this case, older adult), it isn’t quite how you remembered it? Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s amazing, but some other times, well, […]
The other day I was listening to Alabama’s 40 Hour Week, a song I had heard countless times. But one lyric stood out to me that I hadn’t noticed before: “But the fruits of their labor are worth more than their pay And it’s time a few of them were recognized.” I’m not sure if […]
“…and the music that we play are the oldies of today and we think those kids are strange….”
Some of you still remember the legend of Cap’n Jeff, some of you are too young. Young or old, you can still download some sweet free wallpaper for Cap’n Jeff and the Jefftones. Enjoy! Jefftones is available in 1600 x 1200 (standard) and 1440 x 900 (wide). Just right click and Save As (Windows) or Option-Click (Mac).