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Date: December 30, 2020 at 10:04:47
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Sound Grammar: the 25 Best Recordings of 2020 |
URL: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/12/30/sound-grammar-the-25-best-recordings-of-2020/ |
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December 30, 2020
Sound Grammar: the 25 Best Recordings of 2020
by Jeffrey St. Clair
Dean and Britta (with Luna) playing Portland in February, a few weeks before going into quarantine. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.
Pedernal
Susan Alcorn Quintet
(Relative Pitch)
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
(Epic)
Pursuance: the Coltranes
Lakecia Benjamin
(Bandcamp)
Quarantine Tapes
Dean & Britta
(Band Camp)
The Unraveling
Drive-By Truckers
(ATO)
Ghosts of West Virginia
Steve Earle & The Dukes
(New West)
The Lost Berlin Tapes
Ella Fitzgerald
(Verve)
America at War
Joel Harrison
(Sunnyside)
Budapest Concert
Keith Jarrett
(ECM)
Blacktop Run
Sonny Landreth
(Provogue)
Mabern Plays Mabern
Harold Mabern
(Smoke Sessions)
We’re New Again: a Reimagining
Makaya McCraven / Gil Scott-Heron
(XL)
Exquisite
Mekons
(Mekorpse)
Palo Alto
Thelonious Monk
(Impulse!)
No Tears Suite (For the Little Rock Nine)
Christopher Parker and Kelley Hurt
(Mahakala)
All Rise
Gregory Porter
(Blue Note)
That’s How Rumors Get Started
Margo Price
(Loma Vista)
Rawer Than Raw
Bobby Rush
(Deep Rush Records)
We Are Sent Here by History
Shabaka and the Ancestors
(Impulse!)
Blonde on the Tracks
Emma Swift
(Continental)
It is What It is
Thundercat
(Brainfeeder)
José Martí en Nueva York
Manuel Valera & the New Cuban Express Big Band
(Greenleaf)
Old Played New
Christina Vane
(Blue Tip Records)
Keepin’ It Real
Bobby Watson and the Horizon Band
(Smoke Sessions)
Mind Hive
Wire
(Pink Flag)
Jeffrey St. Clair is editor of CounterPunch. His most recent books are Bernie and the Sandernistas: Field Notes From a Failed Revolution and The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink (with Joshua Frank) He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net or on Twitter @JSCCounterPunch .
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Date: December 31, 2020 at 13:21:16
From: Eveve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Sound Grammar: the 25 Best Recordings of 2020 |
URL: A Livestream Performance of Ghosts of West Virginia |
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Guess which one caught my eye right off.... I felt led to look up for a listen straight away. Though I have not finished the video yet, I thought
to place the link here and return to it later ....What I have listened to so far I like it...the word visuals and melody translate well.
excerpt from channel link:
Ghosts of West Virginia centers on the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion that killed twenty-nine men in that state in 2010, one of the worst
mining disasters in American history. In ten deftly drawn, powerfully conveyed sonic portraits, Earle draws from interviews and testimonials from
surviving miners and the families of those who died to explore the historical role of coal in rural communities and the union history of West
Virginia's mines.
I plan to visit more on the list later.
Thank you for sharing the article ryan I find it for myself spot on today...auld lang syne.
Lyric links from two of the songs. I felt led to copy and paste some of the first, all of the second...my father after the flesh worked on the
railroad and his daddy too...and the son, my brother after the flesh worked for the rail road as well but he did work in the coal mines for a
spell prior to that. An in-law relation began work at age 13 in the coal mines when his daddy died since he was the eldest of the male
children...then black lung laid him low in his latter years.
...."Almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River ~ Life is old there, older than the trees ~ Younger than the mountains,
growing like a breeze".
excerpt:
"Union, God And Country"
My daddy was a miner
My daddy's daddy, too
Union, God, and country
Was all they ever knew
They worked from early mornin'
Till the evenin' whistle blew
When they'd strike the mine
They'd walk the line
'Cause that's just what you'd do
When you're born in West Virginia
A miner through and through
Union, God, and country
Was all they ever knew
Union, God, and country
West Virginia, gold and blue
Union, God, and country
Was all we ever knew
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/steveearle/uniongodandcountry.html
Well the devil put the coal in the ground
Devil put the coal in the ground
Buried it deep, it'll never be found
Devil put the coal in the ground
Said that'll be a diamond some day
That'll be a diamond some day
You'll be long gone, and dead either way
That'll be a diamond some day
Well the devil put the coal in the ground
Devil put the coal in the ground
Said I'll double dog dare you to follow men down
Devil put the coal in the ground
Well the good Lord give me two hands
Good Lord give me two hands
Said "Is you an animal, is you a man?"
The good Lord give me two hands
Lord, giveth and he taketh away
Lord, giveth and he taketh away
Oh, the devil did the same damn hold of the day
Lord, giveth and he taketh away
Well the devil put the coal in the ground
Devil put the coal in the ground
Said I'll double dog dare you to follow men down
Devil put the coal in the ground
Hey
I wake up in the morning praying
Wake up in the morning praying
Keep the wolf from my door, and my devil at bay
Wake up in the morning and pray
Well the black lung 'll kill me some day
The black lung 'll kill me some day
In the underground, I reckon and I wait
The black lung 'll kill me some day
Well the devil put the coal in the ground
Devil put the coal in the ground
Said I'll double dog dare you to follow men down
Devil put the coal in the ground
Well the devil put the coal in the ground
Devil put the coal in the ground
Said I'll double dog dare you to follow men down
Devil put the coal in the ground
https://www.lyrics.com/lyric-lf/1723368/Steve+Earle+%26+the+Dukes/Devil+Put+the+Coal+in+The+Ground
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Date: January 01, 2021 at 00:08:15
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Sound Grammar: the 25 Best Recordings of 2020 |
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eveve has a nice ring to it...
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Date: December 31, 2020 at 20:21:02
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Sound Grammar: the 25 Best Recordings of 2020 |
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Long day started early by the way I typed my
name...lol....WVA = odd alternate world ...but I did like
the nature in the in the seasons but winter could be long
and dark though the virgin snow in winter was beautiful
...enjoyed the remoteness and simplicity many times but
never fit in with the social aspects.
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