what music are you listening to now

[Dekalb_Blues]

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRCoTPB4P6A

I've been meaning to post this for a few weeks now, but of course affairs of state take precedence over such folderol. High-level geopolitics waits for no man. But Brzezinski and Kissinger are such pains in the neck as houseguests, what with their constant bickering over the course of Empire. And it's like pulling teeth, getting rid of them. Had to fake an urgent call from David Rockefeller promising them booze and dancing girls if they'd only high-tail it over to 30 Rock for some Ruling-Partying.
Many fond memories of tous les moments musicaux magiques in beautiful Bethlehem (or "Bethlum" as the locals pronounce it; "Bedlam", as I say it). With plenty of les très chic, très hip chix to dance with!

Typical Bethlehemite gals doing their thang

The beer flowed like wine, and vice-versa, and the music went 'round and 'round, and some of it comes out here, just for the hell of it. I mean, "for spiritual uplift", of course. Always get those two mixed up. Here are some bands I caught:

Bring4th, meet MarchFourth!:

Skip to about 0:45. Absolutely demented spirit-of-Mardi-Gras reform-school marching-band ensemble (here seen lettin' it ride in Telluride).


Killer blues band with my buddy on sax. He, his brother on guitar, and the Sonny-Sharrockian guitarist are heavy-weight jazz players, just laying back in this ensemble, with its fine vocalist:



Here's my man again, this time on guitar, backing a powerful local chanteuse (note: her kids were in the audience, so Mom sanitizes the lyrics a bit around the 4:30 minute mark, singing "I've got a quarter-pounder full of cheese" instead of "... a quarter-pound of weed", thus cracking up the harp-player. LOL!):

I used to live a few blocks from this venue (where I myself have performed, years ago). BTW, that's the Delaware River there; 45 miles downstream, and 240 years ago, General Washington & co. sneakily crossed one snowy Christmas night to beat up the unsuspecting Hessian mercenaries wintering near Trenton, New Jersey. This riverine amphib psyop succeeded big-time.


An absolutely mesmerizing band that I first ran into accidentally in Ithaca, NY, twenty years ago. Like Talking-Heads-meets-Sonic-Youth, but in the American old-time traditional-music groove:



Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, among the most-recorded studio musicians ever, was in the house and performed a rousing few sets with local jazz luminaries. You've probably heard him already, as he's drummed away on Motown hits by Aretha Franklin and on three albums by Steely Dan (among his many hundreds of rock, blues, and jazz recordings with artists ranging from the Rolling Stones to B.B. King to Frank Sinatra):


Next stop, comin' up: other coast, Festival of Disruption! http://festivalofdisruption.com/dive-in/
Annie Clark!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9DsEP_...j7&index=1
Xiu Xiu! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HbiDI9gkM
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gabuAyRAx-I Grooves will be had.