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The Blues! Three New Mixes at My 8tracks.com Site

You don't have to join.  You don't have to pay.  Just stop by and listen.  I recently added three new mixes on my 8tracks.com site: each of these three (Blues: Volumes 2, 3, and 4) provides over one hour of choice blues tracks.  (My "Blues, Vol. 1" mix has over thirty minutes of great music.)

If you skip through too many songs, you'll run up against a wall concerning the rules and permissions for 8tracks.com.  Here's the text that pops up once you've skipped too many songs: "Apologies for the inconvenience, but our music license requires us to limit the number of tracks you may skip each hour."  But you're not being shut down at that point, and you're not being asked to sign up or spend money.  Just keep listening, and a new song will be playing soon. 

It's a pleasure to play DJ, to share these great works of art.  Enjoy.

Just Signed up for 8tracks.com

I just signed up for 8tracks.com and created my first playlist of music.  (Thanks for the info, Russo.)  You can check out the playlist, free, without signing up or registering, etc., here.  I look forward to creating more playlists in the near future.

I used my photo below as the avatar for that particular playlist.  OK, this photo has a general connection to any playlist; however, it has, perhaps, a more specific connection--given the word "interesting" and the price of "$1.99"--to the changing ways music is now available, as opposed, say, to the CDs at brick and mortar stores.

Vatican "Forgives" John Lennon

Get this: the Vatican has "forgiven" John Lennon for his remark about the Beatles being "bigger than Jesus."  The response time here is lightning speed for the Vatican.  What year was it--1989 or 1990 or 1991?--when they finally admitted that Galileo had been right?  Unfortunately, though, they still missed the point about Lennon.  And how insulting that in their defensiveness they can only see his remark as the boast of a young man.  They should go back to the press conference where Lennon explains himself in order to address the PR mess.  (You can see the clip on my Vodpod.)  Pay attention, in particular, to his tag at the end of one sentence: "...or whatever it is."  If Lennon weren't dead, he could tell the Vatican to stuff it.  But they've forgiven a dead man, and since he can't respond, I had to say something.

A Note on Photoshop for All the Traditionalists Who Would Never Stoop So Low as to Use It and Decry All of Us Who Do

What was Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” but a traditional blues song in an aural kind of Photoshop?  That song is a great pleasure.  Why would I have had Led Zeppelin not go into the studio and experiment the way they did?  Fellow image-makers, I’m not interested in your stats about your photo; I’m interested in what it looks like to me and what that image does to me.

Muddy Waters' "The Same Thing": An Appreciation

"The Same Thing"

What make men go crazy when a woman wear her dress so tight?
Why do men go crazy when a woman wear her dress so tight?
Must be the same old thing that makes a tomcat fight all night. 

Why do all of these men try to run a big-legged woman down?
Why do all of these men try to run a big-legged woman down?
Must be the same old thing that makes a bulldog hug a hound.

Oh that same thing.
Oh that same thing.
Tell me who's to blame.
The whole world's fightin' about that same thing.

What make you feel so good when your baby get a evenin' gown?
What make you feel so good when your baby get a evenin' gown?
Must be the same old thing that made a preacher lay his Bible down.

Oh that same thing.
Oh that same thing.