So 2008, but I like it despite the fact that I am behind the times, big time:

Apparently, Duffy is very big in Europe – am I lame because this is the first I’ve heard of her?  What a voice …

E. Power Biggs plays Harvard University’s Flentrop organ (made in Zaandam, Holland): hey – google this guy.  Nobody plays Bach better.  Trust me – I’ve been trying to find something better for 30 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH10P42aaGY

Perfection:

Saw the word “chimes” in the last post and had a flashback to my favorite jazz piece:

At one point during Monday night’s Green Day show at Madison Square Garden, Billie Joe Armstrong announced that he needed someone on stage who could play the guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69cNb5z7FE

If that little girl in her Misfits shirt and her pigtails can get up on stage at Madison Square Garden and absolutely own it, there is hope for the future. That is all.

I have noticed that this joint is well-populated with music nerds.  And thus I believe, in my addled brain, that there may be grounds for formal discussions on this subject.  Therefore: Music Nerding, to which other regulars can contribute at will. Suggestions most welcome.

First, for your consideration: the incomparable Kristin Hersh, from 2007.

Not widely known or recognized, she’s been at this for over twenty years — first as a punk kid, with her punk half-sister Tanya Donnelly in Throwing Muses, then solo, and then with a thrashing side-project known as 50 Foot Wave (which released its first album about two weeks after the tsunami hit Indonesia and Thailand — forcing her onto CNN to hastily explain the audiological basis for the name, which is about as much time in the limelight she has seen in her entire career).  Oh, and she’s an all-American badass — battled mental illness and won, has four kids.  Solid.

Follow along for more, won’t you please?

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