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LeRoy Bell's Music

Category: Music

As you know, my nephew, LeRoy Bell, was a contestant on the XFactor singing contest. You may also know that he was voted off the show last week. I'm not going to say much about that other than to note that LeRoy was NOT the...

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I went to an Indian Restaurant last time I was in Arkansas and this was the entertainment.

Category: Music

I went to an Indian Restaurant last time I was in Arkansas and this was the entertainment. The problem with a Sitar Sarod is that you can't jump around on the stage while you are jamming with it. Hat Tip: Miss Cellania...

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Totally Cool Music Thing with Indigo Girls

Category: Music

eTown is a music and community-building radio show broadcast on a number of stations across the US. Well, it's not all music. They do a wide variety of things, including a kind of pickup-game with well known artists and not so well known, but very...

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"A Change Is Coming" LeRoy Bell

Category: Music

A Change Is Coming, by Leroy Bell, who happens to be my nephew. Pretty good, huh!?...

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"Indigo Girls" has a New Album

Category: Music

It's called Staring Down the Brilliant Dream. I'm especially excited about the new versions of Shame on You and Wild Horses The disk is a collection of 31 songs selected from live shows during 2006-2009. Brandi Carlile and Jill Hennessey do some of the singing....

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The ultimate ... ah... I'm not sure what this is.

Category: Music

Shut up and play yer guitar.

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LeRoy Bell

Category: Music

Since someone is posting love songs, I figured I could do that too. Peace Monday! OK OK so that was not a love song. But the love song is not a video, just a still with the music in the background, and that just isn't...

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Lyrebird ... or should we say "liar bird"

That was the lyre bird. This is the liar bird:...

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Rokia Traore: "M'Bifo"

Category: Music

Rokia Traore sings the moving "M'Bifo," accompanied on guitar and on the n'goni, a lute-like Malian stringed instrument with a soulful tone. A quietly mesmerizing performance....

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Jakob Trollback: Rethinking the music video

Category: Music

What would a music video look like if it were purely directed by the music? Not driven by a concept, nor by a desire to build an image, but purely as an expression of a great song? Designer Jakob Trollback shares the results of his...

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