Music for Sunday - Ani Difranco, Joni Mitchell and Lucinda Williams

...cuz when I look around I think this, this is good enough
I try to allow whatever life brings
Cuz when I look down, I miss all the good stuff
and when I look up, I trip over things...

~Ani Difranco

Ah. But what a lovely pain in the ass she is! ;-)

Music for Sunday - Paul Kelly and Friends

Music for Sunday - The Decemberists

 The Decemberists

 from Portland, Oregon

 

 

 

Music for Sunday: Goodbye to Kate McGarrigle

 Kate McGarrigle (left) and her sister Anna chatted at the Monument National in September 2004 after a news conference announcing that the folk music duo were recipients of the Governor-General's Performing Arts Awards. Kate McGarrigle died Monday of cancer at age 63.

Photograph by:  JOHN MAHONEY, GAZETTE, FILE

Kate McGarrigle, one half of the McGarrigle Sisters, mother to singers Rufus and Martha Wainwright and supremely talented singer and songwriter from Canada, died on January 18 at the age of 63. Listen to the story on NPR.

 I loved her voice as soon as I heard it as a teen-ager in the mid-70's. So many of my favorite songs were written and performed by Kate and her sister Anna. Having lived in France and as a child, I loved the old French songs, too. It is amazing the love an artist can put into her songs. I think that love shielded Kate in her own world of music and passion for life. It was not about fame or fortune. She went unnoticed by the masses of people who buy records but some of us were lucky enough to discover and treasure her music. I know I will play those songs for my grandchildren.  

Music for Sunday - Dave Alvin: King of California

Music for Sunday - The Raconteurs

Steady As She Goes

I needed my Jack White fix; what can I say.

Pagan Sphinx Entertainment Highlight and Music for Sunday

From one of our favorite films Black Orpheus 

1959

Marcel Camus directed nearly a dozen films, including Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which won the Golden Palm at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.

This one goes out to the one I love.

Music for Sunday

 This one goes out to Cloudia and her Comfort Spiral, out of Hawaii.  The band Poi Dog Pondering began in Hawaii and now out of Austin, Texas, it sounds like.  In the 90's, their debut album was on my top five favorites for whatever that year was. Yeah. The 90's are starting to sound like a long time ago!  :-)

Aloha, friend!

Music for Sunday - John Prine- Lake Marie

A song that tells a story - actually two stories. This goes out to my friends Cunning Runt and his brother, Gary. 

They have both been on my mind.

Music for Sunday - Bob Mould, Sugar and a little note from me

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I won't be around much for the next couple of months. My classes start next week; one going into January. I may post an occasional pre-done art post but otherwise will not be able to visit your blogs much or reply to comments. At least that is what I'm thinking now. Maybe I'll find that I need a break and end up blogging more than I think I will.

 I hope you all have health, happiness, peace and love in your lives. If it's hard to find any of those things, take some time for yourself to look at something beautiful and restorative. Hug someone really tight. Find one thing that shows you a little light.

All the love,
Pagan Sphinx

Music for Sunday - Blood of Eden - Peter Gabriel and Sinead O'Connor

Music for Sunday

Music for Sunday - The Abrams Brothers

These boys took my heart when WP and I saw them perform in Nova Scotia earlier this week.

Music for Sunday: Olu Dara - Your Lips

Music for Sunday - i turn my camera on - Spoon

Music for Sunday: Power to the People

Music for Sunday (On Wednesday, My Birthday) - Joni Mitchell - 4th of July - Night Ride Home

To me, Joni Mitchell is like Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Charles Mingus all in one person. Just as my birthday (July 1), the 4th of July and early summer are all woven together as parts of who I am. I love summer, the fireworks, the man beside me and all the music this elegant Canadian songbird, turned California girl, has given us over the decades.

I'm busy (class started on Monday and ends next Thursday but runs from 2:30 to 7:45: jam-packed) and a bit stressed but none the worse for wear, as they say. 83% happy, healthy and trying to make the most of life. If you've got that, there is not a whole to complain about. Well...unless the hormones are taking their toll on the emotions, as they are wont to do! When I'm in the thick of that, it always seems that I will be depressed forever, as I was way back when. Then it passes and I can see that it was just a bout of the blues and a bit of worry, which is normal and human.

I hope you are all well or hanging in. I'm thinking of you who visit often and as always, regretting I can't get to your blogs for every new post. And when I can, I am often called away by duty and cannot leave a comment. I wish you peace and a wonderful summer.

All the love,
Pagan Sphinx

Music for Sunday: Rufus Wainwright

Music for Sunday #4

Doesn't he look like he should be frolicking in the forest with the nymphs and satyr on my blog header? ;-)

The Runt: songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, singer, video artist and technical wiz. Check out his cool website, Go Ahead and Ignore Me.

Music for Sunday: Cesária Évora

Happy Mother's Day to all you groovy mamas out there!

Cape Verde Islands, off the west coast of Africa. Portuguese melodics to african rythms. Cesária Évora, Cape Verde's international star singer.

Saudade (singular) or saudades (plural) (pronounced [sawˈdadɨ] in European Portuguese, [sawˈdadʒi] or [sawˈdadi] in Brazilian Portuguese and pronounced [sawˈdade] in Galician) is a Portuguese and Galician word for a feeling of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost.