Songwriter and mountain dulcimer poet Lee Zangari has released a new full-band single, and they still know how to talk to make it seem like they’ve got money in their pocket. #indie #altfolk #music

The Gambler, by Lee Zangari

track by Lee Zangari

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There's a rush of brilliant kids in Manhattan playing straight-ahead jazz and singing standards, and they know what they're doing like a nuclear physicist knows atoms. They seem happy, not bitter about the fact that they've achieved master level and most people couldn't care less. #music

Watching the PBS special "Jimmy Webb: American Songwriter". The best pure singer ever to lay down a vocal in rock-era American pop music is Glen Campbell. Listen, you'll see. #glencampbell

Greg Abbott, a spiteful no-conscience MAGAt nastier than live fire ants poured into your underpants, lost because he wasn't Republican enough, according to his boss.

Greg Abbott lost because he became a RINO, Trump says

The president’s late-night rebuke came the same day he praised Abbott as “strong and highly respected.”

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VanceBot is already inventing a new persona, angling for the 2028 race. Prediction: he'll have Bill Maher ("crazy democrats") on his side, and also insurance company-financed mainstream media trying to bat away the progressives.

People like Musk and Zuckerberg are mentally imprisoned inside their childhood bedroom/parents' basement where they sit and brood about the fact that nobody likes them and women wouldn't go near them if they weren't rich.

The mountain dulcimer is just an incredible instrument and all kinds of amazing harmonies and textures can be coaxed out of it besides the standard hymns and Appalachian stuff (which is great). #dulcimer #cyndilauper

Cyndi Lauper “All Through the Night” Live on the Stern Show (2008)

YouTube video by The Howard Stern Show

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Saying "we shouldn't call them stupid" is wrong. You see someone with their arm pointing 3 ways and the bone sticking out, you call it a broken arm.

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Two guys in today's obits, one was a Naval Intelligence officer, 88, architect of famous buildings, person of faith, and church organist. Headline: "Architect and MUSIC LOVER". 2nd guy, 96, Marine pilot, Ph.D. in chemistry, research scientist, 19 patents, played viola, trumpet and piano. (1)

We live in a country where most grown adults get their music from Taylor Swift, Drake, Charlie Puth, Morgan Wallen, K-Pop, etc. Then people are surprised by events on the news. #frogsinboilingwater

"It sort of happened". The orange orangutan is a psychopathic, delusional con man, so his behavior shouldn't surprise. But Marco Rubio's got to be the most shameful, evil, lying disgrace in US history.

GOP Lawmaker Calls For Investigation After Rubio Says Ukraine's Starlink Slowdown 'Sort Of Happened' - AOL

Republican Ohio Rep. Mike Turner said on Sunday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio's explanation for Ukraine's Starlink slowdown is not good enough.

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In 1990, way before all this, his then-wife Ivana told her divorce lawyer this fun fact: His bedside reading was Hitler's speeches. A man who's never been known to read a book of any kind. Who'd like to bet his father taught him, "Donalt, the wrong country von Vorld Var 2"?

Getting off this rock just in time reason #27: Tribute bands fill venues.

You see a lot of sneering dismissals of Bandcamp ("haha, they failed"). It's guilt from refusing to reach for their wallet for a little pocket change for their favorite musicians. Can't be a chump and pay when your neighbor gets it free. #bandcamp #spotifysucks

Nashville supplies our billion-dollar industry brain-rotting phony cowboy accent AI-sounding "music". The same city has the most authentic and real artists in the US. A small visit to your wallet (like the old days) will encourage the real stuff. #americana

Maya de Vitry Envisions All Kinds of Relationships on All My Faith - The Bluegrass Situation

Nashville is a company town; not necessarily meaning that you will run into your favorite singer next to you in the grocery store, but it is a complex ecosystem of producers, writers, and musicians. B...

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Stupid musicians and artists with their head in the clouds, stay in your lane and don't talk about important practical life stuff. Leave it to Hegseth, RFK Jr, Patel, Kristi Noem, Tommy Tuberville, Dr. Oz and the pillow guy.

The British series “Rivals” with David Tennant is rollicking good fun.

Elliott Randall. The legendary guitarist. Brand new music out today on Bandcamp. #music #guitar

The Wine-Dark Sea, by Elliott Randall

track by Elliott Randall

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Yeah I know we got our Hotel California, Imagine, Smells Like Teen Spirit and them, but if we’re allowed to include grampa music, greatest song of all time just might be Shadow of Your Smile, take a step back and consider it.

He’s never done one human, loving, unselfish, gracious thing in his entire life, and neither has his family. They‘ve never even tried to stage fake events where he comes off like a decent person, though he‘ll lie about everything else.

An astounding, can't-wrap-your-mind-around, must read, from one of our best political commentators. substack.com/@jojofromjerz #frogsinboilingwater

Be Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted.

Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.

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Have y'all seen this clip of Steve Gadd in the Army in 1970? New Orleans feel was already soaked into his playing. #music

Steve Gadd: "Cissy Strut" (FULL VIDEO), US Army Field Band, 1970

YouTube video by Matthew Bade

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Allen Clayton Hoskins played "Farina" in the Our Gang comedies. He fought in 5 Pacific WW2 battles during his 5 years in the Army Air Corps. Americans answered the call, humbly did what was needed, and didn't identify as military for the rest of their lives when (and if) they came back.

Getting the artwork straightened out for your album release shouldn't take as long as recording six of the songs.

Too bad MAGA wasn’t around when we were young, so we could have learned sooner that educated, reasonable, kind, honest people were actually the bad guys all along.

Ever wonder why elected public officials invariably funnel huge amounts of money to themselves that we could never access, and get angry when we try to hold them to the same rules that we have to follow? Average US Senator, $4.4 million. Congress, $1 million.

The only explanation for Mike Johnson is that some kind of egg capsule from a distant planet landed in rural Louisiana and hatched a slug-like larval alien who took on human form to infiltrate our society.

54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. "Kamala slept her way to the top" "Biden never left his basement" "They want to end religion" "Radical left lunatics" Those phrases soothe and comfort that 54% like a mother's lullaby.

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