Melancholia

"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"


(I am standing with one foot in the grave),

Sunday, August 25, 2019

Eckhart Tolle - The Never Ending Present Moment


Eckhart Tolle - The Never Ending Present Moment




Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Mita Nag and Uday Kumar - Raga Yaman - The Biryani Boys



 

Mita Nag and Uday Kumar - Raga Yaman - The Biryani Boys



Preserving and Promoting Indian Music for Everyone! "...infused with hipster humor featuring prominent Indian musicians" - The New York Times
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Our Kolkata adventures continue as we present this full length performance of Raga Yaman by Mita Nag (sitar) and Uday Kumar (tabla) that takes place in the home of the great sitar maestro, Pandit Manilal Nag.

Mita Nag is the daughter of Pandit Manilal Nag. As one of the leading female sitar players in India, Mita serves as the torch bearer of the Bishnupur Gharana (music tradition/style) that was lead by her father but also by her grandfather, Gokul Nag.

Uday Kumar is a senior disciple of the great tabla maestro Ustad Shabbir Nisar of Hyderabad, India who guards many historic/sacred tabla compositions stewarded by his father, the great Tabla Nawaz Ustad Shaik Dawood Khan Saab.

We hope you enjoy this amazing performance.
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Willie Nelson and Shania Twain, Blue eyes crying in the rain







A+++ Norah Jones Help Me Make It Through The Night Slow







Monday, July 15, 2019

Dr. John Collection on Letterman, 1982-2008








Dr. John Collection on Letterman, 1982-2008


with
Bonnie Raitt, Sippie Wallace 





Beulah "Sippie" Thomas grew up in Houston, Texas where she sang and played the piano in her father's church. 



While still in her early teens she and her younger brother Hersal and older brother George began playing and singing the Blues in tent shows that travelled throughout Texas. In 1915 she moved to New Orleans and lived with her older brother George and got married to Matt Wallace in 1917. 



During her stay there she met many of the great Jazz musicians like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong who were friends of her brother George. 



During the early 1920s she toured the TOBA vaudeville circuit where she was billed as "The Texas Nightingale". In 1923 she followed her brothers to Chicago and began performing in the cafes and cabarets around town. 



In 1923 she recorded her first records for Okeh and went on to record over forty songs for them between 1923 and 1929. Her brother Hersal died of food poisoning in 1926 at age sixteen. 



Wallace was unique among the Classic Blues singers in that she wrote a great deal of her own material, often with her brothers supplying the music. The sidemen who played on her recording sessions were always excellent and included the cream of New Orleans Jazz musicians, like King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, Sidney Bechet and Johnny Dodds among others. 



Sippie moved to Detroit in 1929 and left show business in the early 1930s as the Blues craze ran its course. In 1935 and 1936 her aunt Lillie, her husband Matt and her brother George (who was hit by a streetcar) all died . 



She found solace in religion and during the next forty years she was a singer and organ player at the Leland Baptist Church in Detroit. She occasionally performed over the years, but did little in the Blues until she launched a comeback in 1966 after her longtime friend and fellow Texan, Victoria Spivey called "Sippie Wallace and Victoria Spivey". Wallace's next album was called "Sippie Wallace Sings the Blues" for the Storyville label in 1966. 

Wallace suffered a stroke in 1970 but managed to keep recording and performing. 



With the help of Bonnie Raitt she landed a recording deal with Atlantic Records and recorded the album, "Sippie", which featured Raitt, was nominated for a Grammy in 1983 and won a W.C. Handy Award for best blues album in 1984.






Dr.John -IKO IKO- (with Sunday Night Band)



Dr.John -IKO IKO- (with Sunday Night Band)