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Electro Swing, Anyone?

AI-generated image of vintage swing-dancing robots

Are you familiar with a genre of music called electro swing? Would you like to be? (Please say “yes.”)

Published Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 15:29
Categorized as Music Tagged electro swing, swing dancing, vintage music

HBD, RIB
"Rhapsody In Blue" turns 100 today.

Scan of opening bars of Rhapsody In Blue

On the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue,” we delve briefly into its musical legacy.

Published Monday, 12 February 2024, 11:19
Categorized as Music Tagged clarinet, George Gershwin, Rhapsody In Blue

Photo Friday
Snaps and stories from the past few weeks

Photo: Grainy black and white photo of a double rainbow

Double rainbows, music legends, and bluebonnets on the way…it’s been a great time to take photos.

Published Friday, 9 February 2024, 16:24
Categorized as Music, Nature, Photography, Texas Hill Country, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged Augie Meyers, bluebonnets, Hotel Emma, Los Texmaniacs, rainbows, San Antonio

Random Thursday: The Friday Edition

Image based on a photo by carl de souza/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

From National Serpent Day to “We Are the World” to Rachmanioff’s 2nd Piano Concerto to a home-grown Medusa: we’ve got it all right here.

Published Friday, 2 February 2024, 15:15
Categorized as Movies, Music, Plant Life, Random Thursday Tagged bats, Medusa, palm tree, porcupine, Rachmaninoff

Random Thursday: The Music Video Edition
We've scoured the vidverse to bring you some tasty tunes.

Screen capture of a concert by Katzenjammer
Scene from a Katzenjammer concert in Hamburg, Germany (2012)

We’ve elevated the concept of “randomness” to heights that rival Mt. Everest, musically-speaking.

Published Thursday, 14 December 2023, 7:23
Categorized as Music, Random Thursday Tagged Katzenjammer, Madame Radar, Madi Diaz, Mulligan Brothers, Newen Afrobeat, Seun Kuti, Shawn Mullins, The Band, The Dead South, Tokyo Groove Jyoshi

Random Thursday

Photo: Geese flying in formation
More than 100 geese flying in formation

Non-functioning tats; baseball stats; a buck stands pat; and, uh, other things for which I’m out of rhymes.

Published Thursday, 16 November 2023, 15:08
Categorized as Around the Web, Cars, Music, Random Thursday, Society & Culture, Wildlife - Mammals Tagged baseball, bluegrass, cars, deer, lists, tattoos, Texas Rangers

Dancing In The Moonlight (Musically Speaking)

Photo: Three whitetail deer walking through our front yard in the early morning sunlight
The great autumn whitetail deer migration begins...

“Dancing In the Moonlight” is a cool song, and I can prove it.

Published Saturday, 28 October 2023, 18:29
Categorized as Music Tagged King Crimson, Seventies music

Music to Smile By

Photo: Pecan Creek, Horseshoe Bay, TX

Sometimes, you just need some nice music to serve as a backdrop to doing nothing.

Published Saturday, 9 September 2023, 15:29
Categorized as Music Tagged cover songs, YouTube music

Going ‘Round the Musical World

I spent more time than I should have noodling around YouTube, but I was rewarded with some great new music.

Published Friday, 16 June 2023, 16:45
Categorized as Music Tagged bluegrass, covers, gospel, jazz, polka, rockabilly

Plummeting Down a Rabbit Hole of New (To Me) Music

AI generated image: rabbit musician

I heard a song on the radio about West Texas and it sent me off on an unexpected musical adventure.

Published Monday, 24 April 2023, 6:00
Categorized as Music Tagged Alison Brown, bluegrass, Bob Wood, Dan Vasc, Ken Lavigne, Lindsay Ell, The Pandhandlers

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