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Songbird has released version 0.3 and I have downloaded and installed it. This time I changed feathers (layout) since the original is all black. I decided to use iBird which looks great. It is an iTunes lookalike which is OK, I like the colours. I use Song Notifier which shows an alert slider when the [...]
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I went to YouTube to watch some music videos and relax a bit. One video lead to another which lead to another…
It has been a great blues evening with artists like Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, BB King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Jeff Healey, Gary Moore, Santana, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mark Knopler and Stevie Ray [...]
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I found The Cook Trio through StumbleUpon. A quote from their website:
“Jazz Manouche” or Gypsy Jazz, has a rich history steeped in culture and tradition. This guitar-based music is the only Jazz form whose origins are found outside the United States. It was created and made popular in the 1930’s and 40’s solely by the [...]
I stumbled across A Mobile Phone Salesman called Paul Potts. A modest Paul tells the jury he shall sing opera, watch the jury’s faces. And then Paul starts to sing Nessun Dorma and really grabs the attention of both jury and audience. An amazing video!
You can also watch the video at YouTube, Paul sings Nessun [...]
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Browsing around at StumbleUpon can lead to really nice things. That is how I found Caroline Lavelle, singer and cello player. There are some songs and videos available in her media section. And there are more videos at YouTube, I found Moorlough Shore which is a beautiful video.
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Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Just like Firefox it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform and open source. Songbird is still a developer preview (version 0.2.1 0.2.5 ) but this software looks very promising. Take a look at their screencast.
While surfing around for harmonica information I came across David Harp and an article at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. The article is titled Zen and the Art of Harmonica which sounds really interesting to me. This means I can combine my new harmonica with my interest in meditation and mindfulness.
The article starts like [...]
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I am a fan of blues music and I think it is great when there is a harmonica player in the band. Once when I was at YouTube I stumbled on Harpdog Brown who has several videos in his Harpdog profile.
Today I went and bought a harmonica for myself, to play with (in more ways [...]
I have found another good blues podcast, or more correctly Dave found my post about Blues podcasts. Dave wrote me about his own blues podcast called BluzNdaBlood and I like it. Go there and get some more great blues music.
Pandora is a great music site. Tell it which music you like and it plays similar music. For each song Pandora plays you can say whether you like it or not, that makes the selection better and better. You can have up to 100 stations at any one time.
There is an ad-supported version and one [...]
