Bon Iver’s new video finds him covering Spoon’s “Inside Out.” It’s a very low-key, moody version.
Here’s a live version by Spoon on Austin City Limits:
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
BOAA, DXE PROTEST (DEAD) GOAT FESTIVAL IN SAN FRANCISCO
Today I joined a group of animal activists in protesting a grotesque annual event held at the Ferry Building in San Francisco called the Goat Festival.
You can read an excellent report about the event by my wife Leslie Goldberg at her Vicious Vegan blog.
Here’s the beginning of her post:
BOAA, DXE PROTEST GOAT FESTIVAL IN SAN FRANCISCO
By Leslie Goldberg
We were at the annual Goat Festival in San Francisco to cause a disruption Saturday. Yup, this morning I wasn’t pecking at my keyboard spouting off about animal rights or about the environment disaster caused by animal food consumption, but rather I took it to the streets with the animal rights groups DXE (Direct Action Everywhere) and BOAA (Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy).
The disruption was successful: By chanting (loudly) and holding up signs we managed to make it almost impossible to give a cooking goat sausage demonstration.
A small group of foodies had gathered under a tent in front of the Ferry Building to watch John Stewart-Streit show how to fry up the flesh of a goat and to also have some samples. Stewart-Streit owns a restaurant in Oakland that serves “house-butchered porcine delights.” The onlookers sat on folding chairs apparently unaware they were about to experience an animal rights protest up close and personal.
Security, on the other hand, was aware there was to be a disruption. There were about eight San Francisco police officers and private security guards standing around. The cops kept talking into their radios. The security officers seemed annoyed.
As the goat cooking demo got started and the chef started talking about the “pleasures” of goat consumption, one activist who had been sitting in the audience stood up, and holding a poster of a dog kissing a goat, faced the audience and explained (loudly) about how goats feel, suffer, experience joy and love their families just like us.
Read the entire post here.
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Audio: Bob Dylan Sings ‘Scarlet Town’ & ‘Soon After Midnight’ – Atlantic City, April 10, 2015
On April 10, 2015 Bob Dylan performed at the Borgata Events Center in Atlantic City.
Here is both “Sarlet Town” and “Soon After Midnight” from that night.
To hear the rest of Dylan’s set, head here.
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Audio: Bob Dylan Live, Sydney Australia, 1966 – ‘Visions Of Johanna,’ ‘Desolation Row’ – Complete Show
Forty-Nine years ago, on April 13, 1966 Bob Dylan performed at the Sydney Stadium in Sydney, Australia as part of his Bob Dylan World Tour 1966. The first half of the show was just Dylan, performing with acoustic guitar and harp. Then he was joined by most of The Hawks — guitarist Robbie Robertson, bassist Rick Danko, pianist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson — plus Mickey Jones on drums for an electric set.
The 1966 tour is certainly a highlight of Dylan’s career. Below you can hear all the songs Dylan performed on April 13, 1966. “She Belongs To Me” is a little messed up at first but the rest of it and the others are quite good recordings.
Enjoy. (If for some reason they won’t play for you. go to GrooveShark and search for the songs.)
“She Belongs To Me”:
“Fourth Time Around”:
“Visions Of Johanna”:
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”:
“Desolation Row”:
“Just Like A Woman”:
“Mr. Tambourine Man”:
“Tell Me, Momma”:
“I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)”:
“Baby, Let Me Follow You Down”:
“Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”:
“Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat”:
“One Too Many Mornings”:
“Ballad Of A Thin Man”:
“Positively Fourth Street”:
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Audio: Bob Dylan’s First Major New York Show – Gerde’s Folk City, April 1961
On April 11, 1961, Bob Dylan played his first major gig in New York. It was the first night of a two-week run opening for the great bluesman John Lee Hooker at Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village.
It took some effort for Dylan to land the gig, according to Robert Shelton in his Dylan biography, “No Direction Home.”
Mike Porco ran the club and was open to new talent.
“When, in March 1961, one of [Mike Porco’s] regular customers, Mel Bailey, urged him to give Bobby Dylan a chance, Mike showed interest,” Shelton wrote. “He liked Bobby, but was afraid he was too young. … Mel and his wife Lillian, a dress designer, kept up their campaign, joned by the MacKenzies. If Mike booked Bobby, Eve MacKenzie promised to telephone everyone she knew in order to whip up business. Finally, Mike had a two-week opening for Bob beginning April 1 on a bill with John Lee Hooker… It was Bob’s first real job in New York a, and he was ecstatic.”
Dylan got to play five songs that first night. “House of the Rising Sun,” “Song to Woody,” “Talkin’ Hava Negeilah Blues,” and two others, identified only as “unknown Woody Guthrie song” and “a black blues,” according to New York magazine.
Dylan’s set was not recorded that night, but later that year, when he returned to Gerde’s in September, two songs were recorded and you can listen to them below, or if they won’t play for you, head directly to Grooveshark and search for them.
“San Francisco Bay Blues,” September 29, 1961, Gerde’s Folk City with Jim Kweskin:
“Railroading On The Great Divide,” September 29, 1961, Gerde’s Folk City (probably with Jim Kweskin):
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Dig This! California’s Water Is Going To China & The Middle East
It’s not exactly a media blackout, but the true cause of California’s water shortage is not getting much play in the media.
Today my wife wrote another excellent post on California’s drought at her equally excellent blog, Vicious Vegan.
Here’s how it begins:
WORSE THAN BEING IN HOT WATER, IS HAVING NO WATER
By Leslie Goldberg
Since Gov. Jerry Brown has announced that the little people now should cut back their water consumption by 25 percent, the folks in the animal food industry must be popping the champagne corks. Not only has Brown declined to ask agriculture, including animal agriculture, to cut back, it looks to me like none of the major American media outlets are focusing on livestock and calling it out for the mega-sponge it is.
Instead, the press recently has managed to suggest the idea it’s fruits and vegetables that are the culprits and if we want to do right we should not only turn off the sprinklers but ditch the almond milk and maybe skip the salad. Ok, ok, we should definitely turn off the sprinklers and phase out those oversized spa bathtubs, I agree. But there has been scarcely a hiccup about animal ag with a few exceptions and that’s a serious bummer.
Animal agriculture deserves more than a hiccup! And hamburgers are costing us way more than $1 a piece. Forty-seven percent of California’s water is used for meat and dairy products, according to a study by the Pacific Institute.
California’s biggest crop happens to be not almonds, tomatoes or lettuce. It’s alfalfa. Michael Pollan said during an interview with phys.org, that about 25 percent of our water is going to raise alfalfa, which is primarily for animal feed – not avocado sandwiches. …
Read the whole post here.
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Audio: Bob Dylan Releases ‘Nashville Skyline’ – April 9, 1969
It was the year of Woodstock and Altamont, but for Bob Dylan, the concert that epitomized the hippie subculture, and Altamont, symbol of the end of that subculture, were not on the radar.
For Dylan, 1969 was the year he released his full-on country album, Nashville Skyline, an album of mostly simple, straightforward love songs: “Lay Lady Lay,” “To Be Alone with You,” “I Threw It All Away,” “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” and the others.
The album was recorded in early 1969 at Columbia’s Music Row Studios in Nashville, and was the followup to another album Dylan recorded in Nashville, John Wesley Harding.
For me, a highlight of the album in the Dylan/ Johnny Cash duet, “Girl From The North Country,” a song that was recorded on February 18, 1969 during a jam session that found Dylan and Cash singing old rock and country songs including “Matchbox” and “Blue Yodel” along with Cash classics like “Big River” and “I Walk the Line” and Dylan’s “One Too Many Mornings.”
Listen to a bunch of Dylan/Cash outtakes from the Nashville Skyline sessions:
1- MOUNTAIN DEW
2- I STILL MISS SOMEONE
3- CARELESS LOVE
4- MATCHBOX
5- THAT’S ALRIGHT MAMA
6- BIG RIVER
7- I WALK THE LINE
8- YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE
9- RING OF FIRE
10- GUESS THINGS HAPPEN THAT WAY
11- JUST, A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE
12- BLUE YODEL
13- BLUE YODEL #5 ~THE JOHNNY CASH SHOW:~ 05-01-69
14- I THREW IT ALL AWAY
15- LIVING THE BLUES
16- GIRL, FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
Listen to Nashville Skyline:
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The Environment: The True Cause Of California’s Drought (And It’s Not Almonds)
Note: Although this blog is primarily about art (music, film, literature, etc.), I have been concerned about the environment since I was a kid, and given that we have reached a point where climate change is seriously impacting the lives of humans and other animals (and fish and birds and insects)– in other words, it’s the biggest problem the world faces today and we can’t ignore it — I will be including articles related to climate change in the mix of my posts going forward.
My wife writes a great blog called “Vicious Vegan” that includes her humerous/serious essays along with her drawings.
Yesterday she posted an important piece about the true cause of California’s drought.
Here’s the first few graphs. (You can read the whole thing here.):
YUP, IT’S VEGANS WHO HAVE CAUSED THE CALIFORNIA DROUGHT
By Leslie Goldberg
Wouldn’t you know it? It’s the health food freaks, the almond milk guzzlers who are fueling California’s water shortage. Did you know that it takes a whole gallon of water to raise one almond?
A whole gallon.
Those self-righteous vegans who think they know something!
Since I happened to have a pound of almonds in the refrigerator I decided to count up those little water suckers and see how much water it takes to produce a pound of almonds. It was bad. Four hundred and thirty-three gallons of water.
Four hundred and thirty-three? Wait a minute. How about a pound of beef? (I dare say it’s a lot easier to eat a pound of beef than it is to eat a pound of almonds.) According to the folks at waterfootprint.org it takes between 3,000 and 5,000 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef.
“More than half the entire US water supply goes to livestock,” says the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
“It takes a lot of water to grow grain, forage, and roughage to feed a cow, as well as water to drink and to service the cow,” says the US Geological Survey Water Science School.
“Meat processing, especially chicken, also uses large amounts of water,” says the Environmental Working Group…
Read the rest here.
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Video: Watch New Lykke Li Clip For ‘Never Gonna Love Again’
Here’s Lykke Li’s latest video. This one is for “Never Gonna Love Again,” off her most recent album. I Never Learn, released in 2014.
Directed by Philippe Tempelman.
And if you missed it, check out David Lynch and Lykke Li’s “I’m Waiting Here.”
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Video/Audio: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez Sing ‘Never Let Me Go’ From ‘Renaldo & Clara’
Beginning in 1975, Bob Dylan and a superstar troupe of folk and rock musicians hit the road as the Rolling Thunder Review. As the tour progressed a camera crew filmed some of the concerts as well as fictional scenarios that Dylan dreamed up, and real off-stage events.
One of my favorite performances from the tour (included in “Renaldo & Clara”) is the Dylan and Joan Baez version of Johnny Ace’s 1954 R&B hit, “Never Let Me Go” (written by Joseph Scott).
Video clip from “Renaldo & Clara”:
Full song:
“Never Let Me Go”:
Another version from the Rolling Thunder Review tour:
And another:
Johnny Ace’s version:
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