<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043</id><updated>2010-02-10T18:26:40.428-06:00</updated><title type='text'>2-free-4</title><subtitle type='html'>Good music, one song at a time.</subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/atom.xml'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-323888773531184155</id><published>2008-01-21T10:09:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T13:07:46.559-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Gimme Shelter</title><content type='html'>Merry Clayton sang with Mick Jagger on the original of this song on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Let It Bleed, &lt;/span&gt;which was reportedly so intense it actually did cause her to bleed and miscarry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/gimme-stones.mp3"&gt;Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/gimme-merry.mp3"&gt;Gimme Shelter - Merry Clayton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.richardbuckman.com"&gt;Scam Warning: Richard Buckman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-323888773531184155?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/323888773531184155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=323888773531184155' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/323888773531184155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/323888773531184155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2008/01/gimme-shelter.html' title='Gimme Shelter'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-1198661036366714370</id><published>2007-12-17T20:47:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-17T21:52:30.909-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='campbell brothers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1963 1964'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gospel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul survivors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1965'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aretha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neville brothers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sam cooke'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='otis redding'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='civil rights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leela james'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tina turner'/><title type='text'>A Change Is Gonna Come</title><content type='html'>A request from a reader. And perfectly timed, too, because I'm moving and this is my change. I hate to cheapen this deeply meaningful and significant song with comparisons to moving to a new and better house, but in the end it's just a song, you know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and by the way, Ike Turner beat his wife in case you didn't know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wiki P:"&lt;b&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come&lt;/b&gt;" is a 1965 single by R&amp;amp;B singer-songwriter &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke"&gt;Sam Cooke&lt;/a&gt;, written and first recorded in 1963 and released under the RCA Victor label shortly after &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke#Death"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;his death&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in late 1964. Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, the song came to exemplify the sixties Civil Rights Movement. The song has gained in popularity and critical acclaim in the decades since its release.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-samcooke.mp3"&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-otis.mp3"&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come - Otis Redding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-neville.mp3"&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come - Neville Brothers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-aretha.mp3"&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come - Aretha Franklin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-tina.mp3"&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come - Tina Turner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-campbell.mp3"&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come - Campbell Brothers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-ss.mp3"&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come - Soul Survivors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-coldwar.mp3"&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come - Cold War Kids&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-leela.mp3"&gt;A Change Is Gonna Come - Leela James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/change-aretha.mp3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-1198661036366714370?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/1198661036366714370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=1198661036366714370' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/1198661036366714370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/1198661036366714370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/12/change-is-gonna-come.html' title='A Change Is Gonna Come'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-8815887127931321717</id><published>2007-12-14T23:37:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-14T23:55:50.434-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stevie wonder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1962'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etta james'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ray charles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='motown'/><title type='text'>Little Stevie Wonder Covers Ray Charles</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/stevie-735249.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/stevie-735246.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And by &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Little&lt;/span&gt;, it means when he was 12 years old. I mean, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;look &lt;/span&gt;at him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tribute to Uncle Ray&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; is the second album released by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder"&gt;Stevie Wonder&lt;/a&gt; during his &lt;i&gt;Little Stevie Wonder&lt;/i&gt; phase in 1962. The album was a tribute to Wonder's mentor, fellow blind musician &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles"&gt;Ray Charles&lt;/a&gt;. The album was followed by other tribute albums to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_%22King%22_Cole" title="Nat &amp;quot;King&amp;quot; Cole"&gt;Nat "King" Cole&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke"&gt;Sam Cooke&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye" title="Marvin Gaye"&gt;Marvin Gaye&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supremes" title="The Supremes"&gt;The Supremes&lt;/a&gt; respectively. Like his debut, this album failed to generate hit singles as Motown struggled to find a sound to fit Wonder, who was only 12 when this album was released.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Take a listen; it's especially amusing to hear Little Stevie Wonder sing about getting it on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour/music/halle-ray.mp3"&gt;Hallelujah, I Love Her So - Ray Charles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour/music/halle-stevie.mp3"&gt;Hallelujah, I Love Her So - Stevie Wonder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour/music/maryann-ray.mp3"&gt;Mary Ann - Ray Charles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour/music/maryann-stevie.mp3"&gt;Mary Ann - Stevie Wonder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour/music/drown-ray.mp3"&gt;Drown In My Own Tears - Ray Charles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour/music/drown-stevie.mp3"&gt;Drown In My Own Tears - Stevie Wonder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour/music/queenie-ray.mp3"&gt;Drown In My Own Tears - Marie "Queenie" Lyons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour/music/drown-etta.mp3"&gt;Drown In My Own Tears - Etta James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-8815887127931321717?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/8815887127931321717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=8815887127931321717' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/8815887127931321717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/8815887127931321717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/12/little-stevie-wonder-covers-ray-charles.html' title='Little Stevie Wonder Covers Ray Charles'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-356945590586812196</id><published>2007-12-13T00:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T02:08:23.611-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ike turner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the impressions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='led zeppelin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tina turner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blues'/><title type='text'>RIP Ike Turner</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/iketina-760375.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/iketina-760372.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extremely busy with work, but couldn't let Ike's passing pass me by.&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and yes, this is the same Ike who slapped the same Tina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many other people are known for hitting their wives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;OJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;So to everyone that feels the need to mention that particular fact in the second sentence (after &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;"Ike Turner died." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;Who?  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;"You know, that guy who hit Tina "We Don't Need Another Hero" Turner?" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;Oh. Yeah. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;That&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt; asshole.&lt;/span&gt;), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/ike_tina-771538.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/ike_tina-771536.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;there are &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;sovereign countries and respected religions that sanction and even encourage wife beating and punishing rape victims&lt;/span&gt;. They can't play blues for shit, and yet they get away with both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saudi author and cleric &lt;a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1594.htm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Dr.” Muhammad Al-’Arifi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the "Dr." Phil of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, recently reached out to all those young, recently married kids who may not yet have gotten the hang of the whole "wife thing", or better yet, the whole "woman thing."  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“Admonish them – once, twice, three times, four times, ten times. If this doesn’t help, refuse to share their beds. And if that doesn’t work? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Beat them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Ok? Ike had already tried admonishment. And I think at some point he also probably refused to share his bed with Tina. What else was left???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Seriously, I love all this moral relativism that Ike somehow brings up every time he's mentioned.  When it's a whole people that beat their wives we say, "well, that's their &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;culture&lt;/span&gt;," as if it were some complex, yet beautiful, mosaic of ancient traditions and aromatic spices. Ike, though, should have been hung by his balls.   OK!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/newbreed-ike.mp3"&gt;New Breed&lt;/a&gt;, Ike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/lotta-ike.mp3"&gt;Whole Lotta Love - Ike &amp;amp; Tina Turner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/lotta-zep.mp3"&gt;Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/push-impressions.mp3"&gt;Keep On Pushing - The Impressions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/push-ike.mp3"&gt;Keep On Pushing - Ike &amp;amp; Tina Turner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-356945590586812196?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/356945590586812196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=356945590586812196' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/356945590586812196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/356945590586812196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/12/rip-ike-turner.html' title='RIP Ike Turner'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-3309082341398757063</id><published>2007-12-10T21:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T22:40:43.887-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1964'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1966'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='otis redding'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1967'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1963'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='helene smith'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rolling stones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irma thomas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grateful dead'/><title type='text'>Pain In My Heart</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thepatmurphyband.com/otisredding.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://thepatmurphyband.com/otisredding.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:8;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Forty years ago today, on Dec. 10, 1967, the small plane carrying 26-year-old Otis Redding and four of six members of his road band, the Bar-Kays, crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin, ending the life of one of the best rhythm and blues artists &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ever&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A fitting song to commemorate The Big O...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pain-otis.mp3"&gt;Pain In My Heart - Otis Redding&lt;/a&gt; (1963)&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pain-stones.mp3"&gt;Pain In My Heart - The Rolling Stones&lt;/a&gt; (1964)&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pain-dead.mp3"&gt;Pain In MY Heart - The Grateful Dead&lt;/a&gt; (1966)&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pain-smith.mp3"&gt;Pain In My Heart - Helene Smith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; (1967)&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pain-toots.mp3"&gt;Pain In My Heart - Toots And The Maytals &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Note: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;  Original writing credit was "Redding" (the Stones version says  Redding/Walden, Walden was Redding's manager).   Otis and Stax were sued by  Allen Toussaint who, as "Naomi Neville", had written &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/ruler-irma.mp3"&gt;Ruler Of  My Heart&lt;/a&gt; (of which &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;was adapted) for Irma Thomas. As an out of court settlement, the  credit was changed to "Naomi Neville".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-3309082341398757063?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/3309082341398757063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=3309082341398757063' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/3309082341398757063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/3309082341398757063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/12/pain-in-my-heart.html' title='Pain In My Heart'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-4005722729626116623</id><published>2007-12-09T14:26:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-09T21:56:41.694-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marvin gaye'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jimi hendrix'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='billy stewart'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1964'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the remains'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wilson pickett'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='don covay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rolling stones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1965'/><title type='text'>Mercy, Mercy</title><content type='html'>Today brings a strong cold front into the south and I'm a bit hungover. The two decidedly unsettling feelings are taking a joint fray into today's confusing posting, replete with overlapping musicians, song titles, album releases, and career saving/establishing songs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are several songs with titles very similar to today's Mercy, Mercy - most notably &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mercy, Mercy, Mercy&lt;/span&gt; (which will be covered extensively in the next entry).  There's also Mercy Mercy Me by Marvin Gaye. But so we're all clear, neither one of those songs has anything to do with today's song, the original by Don Covay, who was actually (and un-relatedly) in a band with Marvin Gaye and Billy Stewart called The Rainbows (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;nice, y'all - great name&lt;/span&gt;!) in the early 50's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don Covay really didn't have a great career until he recorded this song with The Goodtimers (and featuring a young Jimi Hendrix) in 1964. He had &lt;a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/75470783/DonCovay.zip"&gt;a bunch of other great songs&lt;/a&gt; and became quite successful as a result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then in 1965, there were three other great recordings of this tune. The Stones recorded one on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Out of Our Heads. &lt;/span&gt;From &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Our_Heads"&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Initially issued in July 1965 in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States"&gt;America&lt;/a&gt; (featuring an alternate shot from the same photo session that graced the cover of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_X_5" title="12 X 5"&gt;12 X 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_No._2" title="The Rolling Stones No. 2"&gt;The Rolling Stones No. 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), &lt;i&gt;Out of Our Heads&lt;/i&gt; was a mish-mash of studio recordings over a six month period, including hit single "The Last Time" and worldwide smash "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28I_Can%27t_Get_No%29_Satisfaction" title="(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"&gt;(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction&lt;/a&gt;" as well as a sampling from the UK-only live &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_play" title="Extended play"&gt;EP&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got_LIVE_if_you_want_it%21" title="Got LIVE if you want it!"&gt;got LIVE if you want it!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Riding the wave of "Satisfaction"'s success, &lt;i&gt;Out of Our Heads&lt;/i&gt; became The Rolling Stones' first US #1 album, eventually going platinum. &lt;/blockquote&gt;Also in 1965, The Remains (who sound eerily similar to the early Stones, but were never really successful) recorded this, as did the great Wilson Pickett - a really nice, full-sound recording, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mercy-covay.mp3"&gt;Mercy, Mercy - Don Covay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mercy-stones.mp3"&gt;Mercy, Mercy - Rolling Stones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mercy-remains.mp3"&gt;Mercy, Mercy - The Remains&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mercy-pickett.mp3"&gt;Mercy, Mercy - Wilson Pickett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-4005722729626116623?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/4005722729626116623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=4005722729626116623' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/4005722729626116623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/4005722729626116623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/12/mercy-mercy.html' title='Mercy, Mercy'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-1127709310830498029</id><published>2007-12-06T20:24:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-08T21:32:59.174-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dionne warwick'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='curtis mayfield'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='al green'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the impressions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gospel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aretha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1965'/><title type='text'>People Get Ready</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/m/mayfie_curt_curtis%7E%7E%7E_101b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/m/mayfie_curt_curtis%7E%7E%7E_101b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My weakness for gospel is once again on display. This being the season to celebrate a little Special Someone's birthday, I suppose that weakness is actually very contemporary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;It was warrior music&lt;/span&gt;," said civil-rights activist Gordon Sellers. "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;It was music you listened to while you were preparing to go into battle&lt;/span&gt;." Mayfield wrote the gospel-driven R&amp;amp;B ballad, he said, "in a deep mood, a spiritual state of mind," just before Martin Luther King's march on the group's hometown of Chicago. Shortly after "People Get Ready" was released, Chicago churches began including their own version of it in songbooks. Mayfield had ended the song with "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You don't need no ticket/You just thank the Lord&lt;/span&gt;," but the church version, ironically, made it less Christian and more universal: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Everybody wants freedom/This I know.&lt;/span&gt;"   -&lt;a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595869/people_get_ready"&gt;RS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;And god &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;damn&lt;/span&gt;, Curtis Mayfield is the SHIT. You can hear him solo on the original, or the greatest version ever that features his band, The Impressions, with some incredible backup and harmonies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Praise Curtis!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/people-curtis.mp3"&gt;People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/people-impressions.mp3"&gt;People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield &amp;amp; The Impressions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/people-aretha.mp3"&gt;People Get Ready - Aretha Franklin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/people-dionne.mp3"&gt;People Get Ready - Dionne Warwick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/people-algreen.mp3"&gt;People Get Ready - Al Green&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/people-spencer.mp3"&gt;People Get Ready - Spencer Bohren&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/people-dionne.mp3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-1127709310830498029?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/1127709310830498029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=1127709310830498029' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/1127709310830498029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/1127709310830498029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/12/my-weakness-for-gospel-is-once-again-on.html' title='People Get Ready'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-807584676961370803</id><published>2007-12-05T17:55:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T20:23:11.110-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elizabeth mcqueen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1955'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chuck berry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='austin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='st louis'/><title type='text'>Thirty Days</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/chuckberry-753309.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/chuckberry-753307.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This one comes straight from the heart of Austin via St. Louis. Chuck Berry, one of the great pioneers of rock (who also wrote the #1 &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;My Ding-a-Ling&lt;/span&gt; ditty), wrote Thirty Days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lovely &lt;a href="http://www.elizabethmcqueen.com/"&gt;Elizabeth McQueen&lt;/a&gt; (also of &lt;a href="http://www.asleepatthewheel.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Asleep At The Wheel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) covers this one beautifully. Her voice is one of the clearest and brightest I've ever heard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/30-chuckberry.mp3"&gt;Thirty Days - Chuck Berry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/30-mcqueen.mp3"&gt;Thirty Days - Elizabeth McQueen &amp;amp; The Firebrands&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-807584676961370803?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/807584676961370803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=807584676961370803' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/807584676961370803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/807584676961370803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/12/thirty-days.html' title='Thirty Days'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-914341215639649721</id><published>2007-12-01T15:43:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-01T16:45:26.472-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='one hit wonder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='margo thunder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amen corner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1967'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul survivors'/><title type='text'>Expressway (To Your Heart)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;A brilliant song from 1967 by The Soul Survivors, a one- or two-hit wonder band that didn't make it very far. They were a pretty crappy band, but this song really stands out, not just amongst their other songs, but alongside other great late 60's songs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;[I found a great &lt;a href="http://www.sl-prokeys.com/survive/survivor.htm"&gt;history/confession/rant&lt;/a&gt; from a former band member who played the year after this song made it big.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Expressway &lt;/span&gt;is the best, but Margo Thunder is a very close second.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/express-soul.mp3"&gt;Expressway (To Your Heart) - The Soul Survivors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/express-margo.mp3"&gt;Expressway (To Your Heart) - Margo Thunder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/express-amen.mp3"&gt;Expressway (To Your Heart) - Amen Corner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-914341215639649721?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/914341215639649721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=914341215639649721' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/914341215639649721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/914341215639649721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/12/expressway-to-your-heart.html' title='Expressway (To Your Heart)'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-4313331659981868050</id><published>2007-11-29T21:09:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T21:32:57.580-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1962'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the beatles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the zombies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jackie deshannon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1963'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='smokey robinson'/><title type='text'>You've Really Got A Hold On Me</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/smokey-752819.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/smokey-752817.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Beatles made it famous in 63, but once again, it's &lt;a href="http://classic.motown.com/artist.aspx?ob=ros&amp;amp;src=lb&amp;amp;aid=38"&gt;Smokey Robinson&lt;/a&gt; who wrote this song in 1962 (the Beatles actually changed the title to "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You &lt;/span&gt;Really" and not "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You've&lt;/span&gt; Really," but I don't know if that was intentional or just British).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of these versions are great. I'm particularly fond of Jackie DeShannon's (or Sharon Myers if you meet her in synagogue) singing and early rock sound, but we'll definitely have more on her in a later posting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hold-smokey.mp3"&gt;Smokey Robinson &amp;amp; The Miracles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hold-zombies.mp3"&gt;The Zombies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hold-beatles.mp3"&gt;The Beatles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hold-jackie.mp3"&gt;Jackie DeShannon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-4313331659981868050?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/4313331659981868050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=4313331659981868050' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/4313331659981868050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/4313331659981868050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/youve-really-got-hold-on-me.html' title='You&apos;ve Really Got A Hold On Me'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-4013686965839213688</id><published>2007-11-28T21:12:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T21:38:51.208-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1944'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kurt cobain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bill monroe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seldom scene'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1992'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nirvana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1952'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leadbelly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grateful dead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1993'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1965'/><title type='text'>In The Pines</title><content type='html'>No, Kurt Cobain did NOT write this song, though his &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Unplugged&lt;/span&gt; version is, in my opinion, the only song of his that makes any sense. His band also does a good job of playing the despair and anger that this song is about, with all of his screaming and what-not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In The Pines" was written sometime in the 1870's and Leadbelly made it famous when he recorded it in 1944 (and several other versions overs the next four years). Bill Monroe did the same thing for country music in 1952, though he conveniently left out all details of the "drivin' wheel" decapitation, and that whole issue of the missing body that makes the traditional version so powerful. The song is referred to by several different names - "In The Pines", "Black Girl", and "Were Did You Sleep Last Night"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pines-leadbelly.mp3"&gt;In The Pines - Leadbelly ('44)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pines-monroe.mp3"&gt;In The Pines - Bill Monroe &amp;amp; His Bluegrass Boys ('52)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pines-dead.mp3"&gt;In The Pines - The Grateful Dead ('65)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pines-seldom.mp3"&gt;In The Pines - The Seldom Scene ('92)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/pines-nirvana.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana ('93)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-4013686965839213688?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/4013686965839213688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=4013686965839213688' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/4013686965839213688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/4013686965839213688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/in-pines.html' title='In The Pines'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-3934307848569888052</id><published>2007-11-28T14:06:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T21:11:04.173-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='duane eddy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1962'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the small stars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='johnny cash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='folk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='susan tedeschi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frankie valli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='country'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dylan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1965'/><title type='text'>Don't Think Twice, It's Alright</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gothamist.com/2006/04/18/nyc_album_art_t.php"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/jamesdean-755380.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-style: italic;"&gt;[A little more info about the album cover on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://gothamist.com/2006/04/18/nyc_album_art_t.php"&gt; The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-style: italic;"&gt;and the James Dean photo , pictured above]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I had no idea how covered this song was until I actually started looking. I have about 25 to go, and I'm pretty impressed. I &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;did &lt;/span&gt;just listen to dozens of other &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-wtf.mp3"&gt;shit-ass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.two-freefour.com/music/dont-puss1.mp3"&gt;pretentious piano&lt;/a&gt; versions of this great song... but you don't want to hear them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's what I do for you. I &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;am &lt;/span&gt;your musical Jesus. I listened to these songs so you wouldn't have to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a listen to &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dylan1.mp3"&gt;this Dylan&lt;/a&gt; classic. &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-dylan2.mp3"&gt;Twice,&lt;/a&gt; and then one more time from &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-dylan3.mp3"&gt;The Gaslight&lt;/a&gt; in NYC ('62).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then these really nice tributes to Bob:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-valli.mp3"&gt;Frankie Valli &amp;amp; The Four Seasons&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;best arrangement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt; hands down)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-stars.mp3"&gt;The Small Stars&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;esp. lead guitar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-cash.mp3"&gt;Johnny Cash &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-trucks.mp3"&gt;The Derek Trucks Band (w Susan Tedeschi)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-elvis.mp3"&gt;Elvis Presley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-odetta.mp3"&gt;Odetta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-ivy.mp3"&gt;Ivy League&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'65, folksie&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dont-duane.mp3"&gt;Duane Eddy&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'65, country-folk instrumental&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A lot of people make it sort of a love song - slow and easygoing. But it isn't a love song. It's a statement that maybe you can say something to make yourself feel better. It's as if you were talking to yourself. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;- bob dylan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-3934307848569888052?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/3934307848569888052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=3934307848569888052' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/3934307848569888052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/3934307848569888052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/dont-think-twice.html' title='Don&apos;t Think Twice, It&apos;s Alright'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-1813961375765581246</id><published>2007-11-26T18:53:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T19:16:47.460-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charles earland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='budos band'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='booker t'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><title type='text'>Sing a Simple Song</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bay-area-bands.com/pictures/babg036.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.bay-area-bands.com/pictures/babg036.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quick post today, but a good song nonetheless.&lt;br /&gt;Sing it, Sly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/sing-sly.mp3"&gt;Sing a Simple Song - Sly &amp;amp; The Family Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/sing-earland.mp3"&gt;Sing a Simple Song - Charles Earland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/sing-budos.mp3"&gt;Sing a Simple Song - The Budos Band&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/sing-booker.mp3"&gt;Sing a Simple Song - Booker T. and The M.G.s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-1813961375765581246?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/1813961375765581246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=1813961375765581246' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/1813961375765581246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/1813961375765581246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/sing-simple-song.html' title='Sing a Simple Song'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-5755202564197167945</id><published>2007-11-25T21:15:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T22:21:24.155-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mike farris'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1962'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gospel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bruce springsteen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='swan silvertones'/><title type='text'>Mary, Don't You Weep</title><content type='html'>I don't know why I like spirituals so much. I shouldn't. But the old Negro spirituals almost always sound great, and this is no exception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Written even before the Civil War, Mary in this song isn't Jesus' girlfriend; it's Mary of Bethany who begged and begged for Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead. Most of the song, though, is about the Exodus from Egypt ("&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pharaoh's army got drownded...&lt;/span&gt;") with the obvious freedom references that made it popular during slavery and the civil rights movement as one of the many "freedom songs."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Swan Silvertones' version is the earliest one I could find (the song was first recorded in 1915 by the Fisk Jubilee Singers), but it is by far the most popular. The band was started in 1938 by a West Virginian coal miner, but this song was recorded in 1962.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Springsteen version is from his recent Seeger Sessions which I think is a great piece of work. I have no idea who &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/mikefarrismusic"&gt;Mike Farris&lt;/a&gt; is, but for a white guy, he's pretty soulful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mary-silvertones.mp3"&gt;Mary Don't You Weep - The Swan Silvertones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mary-bruce.mp3"&gt;Mary Don't You Weep - Bruce Springsteen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mary-farris.mp3"&gt;Mary Don't You Weep - Mike Farris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-5755202564197167945?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/5755202564197167945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=5755202564197167945' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/5755202564197167945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/5755202564197167945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/maggies-farm.html' title='Mary, Don&apos;t You Weep'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-7494565875313259309</id><published>2007-11-21T21:36:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-21T22:08:25.211-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='duane allman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ike turner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='little walter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tina turner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eric clapton'/><title type='text'>Mean Old World</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rainydayblues.org/images/little_walter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.rainydayblues.org/images/little_walter.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Marion Walter Jacobs, or &lt;a href="http://www.littlewalter.net/"&gt;Little Walter&lt;/a&gt; to you, wrote this anti-Thanksgiving song. Well, it wasn't really directed at Thanksgiving per se, but while fighting traffic in the supermarket today, hating everyone and everyone hating me, I couldn't help but think of this song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mean Old World&lt;/span&gt; is dedicated today to all the people at the loose spices section this afternoon in Central Market. They're just spices, people! Your turkey will be still be ok if we share the last bit of ground ginger, ok?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mean-walter.mp3"&gt;Mean Old World - Little Walter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mean-turner.mp3"&gt;Mean Old World - Ike &amp;amp; Tina Turner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/mean-allman.mp3"&gt;Mean Old World - Duane Allman/Eric Clapton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-7494565875313259309?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/7494565875313259309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=7494565875313259309' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/7494565875313259309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/7494565875313259309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/mean-old-world.html' title='Mean Old World'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-5522789019420392728</id><published>2007-11-20T20:46:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T22:50:23.884-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jewish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dick dale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spotnicks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='harry belafonte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ben folds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hava nagilah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elvis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dylan'/><title type='text'>Hava Nagillah, Y'all</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/spotnicks-725733.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/spotnicks-725729.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bob Dylan&lt;/span&gt;'s version, titled &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Talkin' Hava Negillah Blues&lt;/span&gt;, could very well be the most creative version of this song since it was written in 1918.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dick Dale&lt;/span&gt; does a typical surf version which is also excellent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's also a great version played on a Hammond by &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Trio Hans Jansen&lt;/span&gt;, of which I can find no information, except that they might be Dutch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Harry Belafonte&lt;/span&gt;'s version is a classic, unlike the early 60's Swedish band, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Spotnicks&lt;/span&gt;, who &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=The%20Spotnicks"&gt;pose and play on stage in space suits&lt;/a&gt; while covering American country songs (they sound really good).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, man... I almost forgot the one with &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Elvis&lt;/span&gt;. This must be the fat, pill-poppin', dying on the shitter Elvis, and his equally drunk and high band.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll let you decide which one is the... best?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hava-dylan.mp3"&gt;Talkin' Hava Nagilah Blues - Bob Dylan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hava-dale.mp3"&gt;Hava Nagilah - Dick Dale and His Deltones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hava-jansan.mp3"&gt;Hava Nagilah - Trio Hans Jansen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hava-belafonte.mp3"&gt;Hava Nagilah - Harry Belafonte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hava-spotnicks.mp3"&gt;Hava Nagilah - The Spotnicks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hava-elvis.mp3"&gt;Hava Nagilah - (Fat) Elvis Presley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/hava-benfolds.mp3"&gt;Hava Nagilah - Ben Folds (live)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-5522789019420392728?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/5522789019420392728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=5522789019420392728' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/5522789019420392728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/5522789019420392728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/hava-nagillah-yall.html' title='Hava Nagillah, Y&apos;all'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-8032206299844769263</id><published>2007-11-18T20:10:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-18T21:33:34.921-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linda ronstadt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aretha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1965'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the miracles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='smokey robinson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rosetta hightower'/><title type='text'>The Tracks of My Tears</title><content type='html'>This is a pretty great Sunday evening kind of song. For listening, not writing about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wiki says:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The Tracks of My Tears" is a 1965 hit single by The Miracles for the Tamla (Motown) label. It is considered among their best recordings, and is listed on the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. An all- time classic, this million- selling song is also a 2007 Grammy Hall Of Fame Inductee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This song was #50 on the list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time[1]. In a 2006 poll for a Channel 5 program "Britain's Favourite Break-up Songs", "The Tracks of My Tears" was voted 16th. In early 2007, THE MIRACLES' original version of the song was inducted into the GRAMMY HALL OF FAME .&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing I need to address before we move on with the music - I'm not a big fan of Linda Ronstadt, and &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/tracks-ronstadt.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;this song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is really no exception, but I included it because:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Odds are that one of the handful of people that read this blog is a closet Linda Ronstadt fan. You know who you are, we don't need to start a witch hunt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;One of you may even be open about your sick Linda Ronstadt fetish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;This recording was big for her in her career, so I'm just trying to make sure you get the history you paid for.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;OK, we're all fully disclosed now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original Smokey Robinson is pretty great. His band is great, the backup singers nail it , he's about flawless himself - really close to perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aretha's version is about the same tempo - slow in the beginning, buoyant towards the end, with the horns to back it all up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rosetta Hightower picks it up from the beginning. I need to find more of her stuff - it's actually been re-released on CD. I like this version the best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/tracks-smokey.mp3"&gt;The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson &amp;amp; The Miracles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/tracks-aretha.mp3"&gt;The Tracks of My Tears - Aretha Franklin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/tracks-rosetta.mp3"&gt;The Tracks of My Tears - Rosetta Hightower&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-8032206299844769263?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/8032206299844769263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=8032206299844769263' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/8032206299844769263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/8032206299844769263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/tracks-of-my-tears.html' title='The Tracks of My Tears'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-7574548818670790279</id><published>2007-11-16T20:43:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T11:05:30.373-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joe loss'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david byrne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cole porter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='willie nelson'/><title type='text'>Don't Fence Me In</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/cole-porter-774778.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/cole-porter-774775.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;"If I have to pretend-write one more song..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Cole P. exhaled strongly through his nostrils; his exasperation was obvious.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;"Now you know why I'm a closet homosexual and love lavish pool parties!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know where I first heard this song, but it definitely wasn't the original. I can't find the original (because I honestly just don't care enough to track down the first recording of this song), but I'm guessing it sounded &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;as &lt;/span&gt;white and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;as &lt;/span&gt;theatrical and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;as &lt;/span&gt;gay as the one below by Joe Loss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This song has a pretty&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Fence_Me_In_%28song%29"&gt; rich history&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Don't Fence Me In" was written by Cole Porter and Robert Fletcher in 1934. It was Porter's least favorite song and does not have his usual signature.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Originally written for an unproduced 20th Century Fox film musical, Adios Argentina, in 1934, "Don't Fence Me In" was based on text by an engineer who was also a poet, Robert (Bob) Fletcher. Cole bought the poem from Bob Fletcher for $250 and adapted it. When the song was first published, Porter was credited with sole authorship, but he had essentially re-worked the poem written earlier by Fletcher. (Fletcher, who worked with the Department of Highways in Helena, Montana, also wrote the "roadside history" plaques that were displayed along Montana's highways until the 1980s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are some great adaptations of this song, but all of them still sound really awkward and hard to sing, despite its addictive and catchy nature. Are there any singers out there that could comment on this? Even sweet, soft Willie has his moments where it sounds like he's singing this for the first time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This song is like a geeky, gawky adolescent - the exact opposite of the untamed cowboy the song is supposed to be about. Then again, there's something eerily Brokeback about the this whole song anyway:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Underneath the western skies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Till I see the mountains rise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And I can't look at hovels and I can't stand fences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Don't fence me in, no&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;Pop, oh don't you fence me in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So? You like the song?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/fence-loss"&gt;Don't Fence Me In - Joe Loss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/fence-hein-und-oss.mp3"&gt;Don't Fence Me In - Hein und Oss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/fence-byrne"&gt;Don't Fence Me In - David Byrne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/fence-willie.mp3"&gt;Don't Fence Me In - Willie Nelson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-7574548818670790279?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/7574548818670790279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=7574548818670790279' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/7574548818670790279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/7574548818670790279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/dont-fence-me-in.html' title='Don&apos;t Fence Me In'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-4482434963653827330</id><published>2007-11-16T18:50:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T01:19:36.805-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lulu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dave mason'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='traffic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the politicians'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><title type='text'>Feelin' Alright</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.legacyrecordings.com/Dave-Mason.aspx"&gt;Dave Mason&lt;/a&gt; of Traffic wrote this one, and &lt;a href="http://hypem.com/track/197383"&gt;Joe Cocker totally ruined it &lt;/a&gt;for almost forever. But let's try to forget about him for a few minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best version by far comes from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_%28singer%29"&gt;Lulu&lt;/a&gt;, and she kills this song from beginning to end. She sounds crazy, but the good kind of crazy. The Politicians' version is pretty good, too - it's funky and loose - but Lulu can yell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/feelin-traffic.mp3"&gt;Feelin' Alright - Traffic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/feelin-lulu.mp3"&gt;Feelin' Alright - Lulu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/feelin-politicians.mp3"&gt;Feelin' Alright - The Politicians&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/feelin-westcoastrevival.mp3"&gt;Feelin' Alright - West Coast Revival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-4482434963653827330?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/4482434963653827330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=4482434963653827330' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/4482434963653827330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/4482434963653827330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/feelin-alright-on-friday.html' title='Feelin&apos; Alright'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-2049936497733489468</id><published>2007-11-15T13:12:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-16T01:21:33.935-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='country'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reggae'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='booker t'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jackie mittoo'/><title type='text'>Hang 'Em High</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/clint-756688.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/clint-756683.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Originally written for &lt;a href="http://http//www.imdb.com/title/tt0061747/"&gt;the movie&lt;/a&gt; with the same name, starring a young(er) Clint Eastwood, Hang 'Em High was composed by Dominic Frontiere. Several other covers were recorded, including one by Hugo Montenegro that made it into the Top 40, as well as others in almost every genre - the reggae and ska crowd &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;really &lt;/span&gt;liked this song in particular, and it even spawned a new genre of&lt;a href="http://www.reggaecowboys.com/"&gt; Western Reggae&lt;/a&gt;.  The Jamaican dancehall king, Jackie Mittoo, did a great version that's also a big &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tpub4iycda0"&gt;breakdancing song&lt;/a&gt; for some reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With all the covers that were recorded, it still was Booker T. and the M.G.s that made this instrumental the classic that it is today (but don't miss the Memphis Black version below).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-frontiere.mp3"&gt;Hang 'Em High - Dominic Frontiere &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-frontiere.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D265526608%2526id%253D265526525%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;|buy album|&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-montenegro.mp3"&gt;Hang 'Em High - Hugo Montenegro                           &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D5383235%2526id%253D5383296%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;|buy album|&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-booker.mp3"&gt;Hang 'Em High - Booker T. and the M.G.s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-frontiere.mp3"&gt;     &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D152035757%2526id%253D152035755%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;|buy album|&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-memphis.mp3"&gt;Hang 'Em High - Memphis Black &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D120436671%2526id%253D120437247%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;|buy album|&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-meters.mp3"&gt;Hang 'Em High - The Meters &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D40285643%2526id%253D40285623%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;|buy album|&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-mittoo.mp3"&gt;Hang 'Em High - Jackie Mittoo &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D265526608%2526id%253D265526525%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-ace.mp3"&gt;Hang 'Em High - Richard Ace  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D3176065%2526id%253D3176093%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;|buy album|&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/hang-regcowboys.mp3"&gt;Hang 'Em High - Reggae Cowboys                 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D128892238%2526id%253D128892233%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;|buy album|&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-2049936497733489468?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/2049936497733489468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=2049936497733489468' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/2049936497733489468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/2049936497733489468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/originally-written-for-movie-with-same.html' title='Hang &apos;Em High'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-8598292235911872427</id><published>2007-11-14T14:15:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-15T13:46:22.924-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1969'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marissa nadler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fillmore east'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1970'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the byrds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neil young'/><title type='text'>Cowgirl In The Sand</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/neilyoung-712185.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/neilyoung-712180.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Written by Neil Young in 1969 for his second solo album, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; (the first album with his backup band &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Crazy Horse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;). He wrote &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Cowgirl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Cinnamon Girl,&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Down By The River&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; in a single day while he was sick with a 103 degree fever. Everyone thinks they know &lt;a href="http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=80414"&gt;what the song is actually about&lt;/a&gt;, but can't actually agree on the meaning of the lyrics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's hard to imagine any covers of this song rivaling Young's exquisitely chaotic guitar in the long intro, or his pained voice as he addresses his cowgirl. But these are all pretty good versions. The recent release by Marissa Nadler (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hipster alert!&lt;/span&gt;) is sung beautifully. The version by The Byrds has an arrangement that makes it feel less like a cover and more like a different song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's also an excellent &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cowgirl &lt;/span&gt;in &lt;a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/69764604/Live_At_Fillmore_East_1970.zip"&gt;this show Live from Fillmore East&lt;/a&gt; (1970)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/cowgirl-young.mp3"&gt;Neil Young - Cowgirl In The Sand                       &lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D887838%2526id%253D887864%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;|buy album|&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/cowgirl-nadler.mp3"&gt;Marissa Nadler - Cowgirl In The Sand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/cowgirl-birds.mp3"&gt;The Byrds  - Cowgirl In The Sand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=7RgFsQRBGCA&amp;amp;offerid=78941&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0&amp;amp;tmpid=1826&amp;amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D68148921%2526id%253D68150343%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30"&gt;                       |buy album|&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-8598292235911872427?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/8598292235911872427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=8598292235911872427' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/8598292235911872427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/8598292235911872427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/cowgirl-in-sand.html' title='Cowgirl In The Sand'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-2956895166448319993</id><published>2007-11-13T15:57:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-13T16:14:18.411-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buddy holly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='albert hammond jr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blind faith'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eric clapton'/><title type='text'>Well... Alright</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/buddyholly-757162.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/buddyholly-757159.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I had no idea this was an original Buddy Holly song. The Blind Faith version with Eric Clapton seems to be the de facto standard, and it is one of the best. But a recent addition from Albert Hammond Jr. (The Strokes) makes a catchy, pop version of the song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/well-buddy.mp3"&gt;Buddy Holly - Well...Alright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/well-blindfaith.mp3"&gt;Blind Faith - Well...Alright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/well-hammond.mp3"&gt;Albert Hammond, Jr. - Well...Alright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe style="position: absolute; display: block; opacity: 0.7; z-index: 500; width: 1px; height: 1px; top: 112px; right: 500px;" src="http://www.google.com/notebook/static_files/blank.html" id="gnotes-notemagic" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/well-blindfaith.mp3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-2956895166448319993?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/2956895166448319993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=2956895166448319993' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/2956895166448319993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/2956895166448319993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/well-alright.html' title='Well... Alright'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-402088096903796730</id><published>2007-11-13T00:12:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-13T16:29:48.676-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='james carr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clarence carter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frank black'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pixies'/><title type='text'>The Dark End of the Street</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/goldwax317-738954.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.twofreefour.com/uploaded_images/goldwax317-738951.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;James Carr is to soul what... Otis Redding is to... soul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James Carr was on all sorts of drugs and drinking very heavily while he was on tour in the late 60's, which went &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;really &lt;/span&gt;well with his being bipolar and all. It took hitting rock bottom, and that rock was found in the middle of a concert in Japan in 1970. As his body began to succumb to an overdose of anti-depressants, he just stopped singing mid-song; he pretty much finished his career right then and there. Next stop, mental hospital. Next, next stop - lung cancer, to really stick it to him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Dark End of the Street&lt;/span&gt; was written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn, and originally sung by James Carr in Memphis, 1966. If you like this song, &lt;a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/69362881/The_Essential_James_Carr.zip"&gt;the rest of his stuff&lt;/a&gt; is even better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clarence Carter, who was a dirty, dirty blind soul singer, did the best version of this song I've ever heard, and there are a LOT of covers out there - from Aretha to My Morning Jacket to Dolly Parton. Everyone seems to sing and play it exactly the way James Carr did it (&lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dark-frankblack.mp3"&gt;even Frank Black&lt;/a&gt;). Clarence did his own intro to the song and changed it forever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dark-clarence.mp3"&gt;The Dark End of the Street - James Carr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/dark-clarence2.mp3"&gt;(Making Love at) The Dark End of The Street - Clarence Carter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-402088096903796730?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/402088096903796730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=402088096903796730' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/402088096903796730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/402088096903796730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/james-carr-is-to-soul-what.html' title='The Dark End of the Street'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-6452127143091539243</id><published>2007-11-12T13:39:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T22:35:30.536-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='johnny cash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leadbelly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lomax'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prison'/><title type='text'>On A Monday...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__g5LlKqFgq4/Rzi6_GtsCEI/AAAAAAAAA5E/t3UnobXHvXQ/s1600-h/leadbelly.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__g5LlKqFgq4/Rzi6_GtsCEI/AAAAAAAAA5E/t3UnobXHvXQ/s200/leadbelly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132057368685447234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I think the Johnny Cash version, called &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I Got Stripes, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;is the most well &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;known version of this song, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;but Leadbelly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;(&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;aka &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Huddie Ledbetter, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;aka &lt;/span&gt;King of the 12-String Guitar)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;was the original outlaw and an even bigger bad-ass,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt; and w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;rote the original words and music to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"  &gt;On A Monday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A little background from the &lt;a href="http://www.leadbelly.org/"&gt;Leadbelly Foundation&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In 1918, [Leadbelly]  fought and killed                          a man in Dallas and was sentenced to thirty years to be                          served in the state prison in Huntsville, Texas. In 1925,                          he wrote a song asking Governor Pat Neff for a pardon.                          Neff, who had promised at his election never to pardon                          a prisoner, broke his promise and set Huddie Ledbetter                          free. In 1930, after a fight at a party, he was sentenced to another prison                          term in the infamous Angola Farm prison plantation in                          Louisiana. In a way, this was a stroke of luck, because                          he was discovered by folklorists John and Alan Lomax,                          who were recording prison songs for the Library of Congress. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/OnAMonday.mp3"&gt;Leadbelly - On A Monday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLAY&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.twofreefour.com/music/IGotStripes.mp3"&gt;Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-6452127143091539243?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/6452127143091539243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=6452127143091539243' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/6452127143091539243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/6452127143091539243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/on-monday.html' title='On A Monday...'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__g5LlKqFgq4/Rzi6_GtsCEI/AAAAAAAAA5E/t3UnobXHvXQ/s72-c/leadbelly.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940579293174947043.post-2537975472091901796</id><published>2007-11-10T16:51:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-11T20:42:28.608-06:00</updated><title type='text'>(Take a Little) Piece of My Heart</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Poor Erma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;She's the 60's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.nickyhilton.com/FanClub.aspx"&gt;Nicky Hilton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;. She played some with Aretha, but never really got anywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Even her big hit is better known as Janis Joplin's.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/68848658/Take_A_Little_Piece_of_My_Heart.mp3"&gt;Erma Thomas - Take a Little Piece of My Heart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;PLAY: &lt;a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/68849760/11_Piece_of_My_Heart__Live_.mp3"&gt;Janis Joplin - Take a Little Piece of My Heart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7940579293174947043-2537975472091901796?l=www.twofreefour.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/2537975472091901796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7940579293174947043&amp;postID=2537975472091901796' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/2537975472091901796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7940579293174947043/posts/default/2537975472091901796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.twofreefour.com/2007/11/arethas-older-sister.html' title='(Take a Little) Piece of My Heart'/><author><name>yehaskel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01341765913343996245'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>