What are you listening to?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
www.openculture.com/.../a_very_young_marianne_faithfull_sings_her_...
Marianne Faithfull (1965)

Hey, that is right up my alley. I have not yet gotten to the Faithfull song part of it, but the openculture dot com site is right up my alley. I had not known about that website.

Oldies music + physics. Groovy!

Originally posted by Suzianne
Cyndi Lauper - from the album She's so Unusual, Time After Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0NkCvFD5r4

It's hard to believe this woman turned 60 yesterday.

Jebesus, 60! It seemed just yesterday I was listening to 'true colors'.

Did you read the comments on that post? I couldn't believe one poster saying the arrangement was totally boring. I was forced to reply.

BTW, my wife is an expert on that instrument, the Appalachian Dulcimer. I gave her her first dulcimer when I was in my band Southwind and she ran with it after lessons from Ruthie Barrett (Ruthie has gone off the deep end with her coven bit though)

http://www.dancingtreemusic.com/about.htm

That's Ruthie, Susan's first dulcimer teacher.

She was always very intense. I liked her best when she was in the little band with Mark Simos and Lori Cole, called Hearth. Then she hooked up with Cyntia Smith and we never saw her again.

I must say, Ruthie, Mark and Lori are all three extremely gifted. Mark made his mark as a song writer, sold at least two songs to Union Station, Allison Krauss's band and now teaches song writing at Berklee college of Music in Boston and plays with Devachan:

http://devachan.com/joomla/Trilogy/News/71-mark-simos-at-berklee.html

And Lori is now a history professor at the University of Maine. Our Venice Beach bunch has spread their wings for sure!

Susan Jennings, my wife, is the founding member of the Israeli Dulcimer society, you can see her under J of the guest list at Tsora folk club:
That's Kibbutz Tsora, a famous club in Israel.

http://www.tzorafolk.com/club/artists/