Melody Gardot - C’est Magnifique ft. António Zambujo

Have fallen in love with this artist!  Her voice is simply magnifique!

Right Now

Eddie Van Halen died yesterday of cancer and while I was not a big follower of the band this is one of two songs that were on my playlist (Dreams was my #1)as I bought the CD to this song.  Notice the title--wonder how many realize the abbreviation of  For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge?  RIP-EVH. 

Little Voice Cast - Dear Hope (From the Apple TV+ Original Series "Littl...

Dear Hope

If you can hear me, don't go

I don't feel you now, but I know you're there

Dear Hope

I could really use you now

Throw me a rope

Throw me a rope

Dear Hope

I can't seem to shake it yet, feeling that

Things may never change

It always breaks my heart when broken parts

Ache to heal again

I think I need to read some Hemingway--in the hopes of finding some hope again!

All Broken Hearts Break Differently

Here's to

those things we'd change and still we'd yearn

A dream not chased, pages still unturned

You'd wring your hands, you'd twist the knife

Trade anything for someone else's life

but like truth to dare and push to shove

We risk everything when it comes to love

What I would give to trade anything for someone else's life!

No other song by MCC has touched me so profoundly and so true that all broken hearts break differently.  

HAUSER - Wicked Game

This music stopped me dead in my tracks--it is so wicked, he is sooooo wicked in his cello playing among other things!  I need a cigarette and I don't even smoke!  One fan wrote the following....

Mrs Julia Smith1 month ago

This isn't music, this is an EXPERIENCE. You don't just hear this, you feel it. It's sensual, and hypnotic. It reaches down in to your soul and gently grabs hold leaving you helpless under it's spell like the world is standing still around you. Have mercy! 💞

HAUSER: 'Alone, Together' from Arena Pula

How is it that I am just now discovering Hauser?  This piece of music is simply breathtaking and on repeat mode along with tears that stream from my eyes each listen.  The beginning with  Benedictus and the conclusion with Nessun Dorma --absolute heaven!  I am in love and a new fan!  Not too mention he is a pretty nice piece of rock candy! Of course now I want to go to Croatia! Yes, Hauser I will stay home and watch #withme!

Willie Nelson, Kacey Musgraves - "Rainbow Connection" | Live from CMA Aw...

Happy 87th Birthday Willie!  I became a fan all over again when I saw this performance.  We sure could all use a Rainbow Connection given the pandemic madness we are in. Kacy your voice is godsend!

Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side
Rainbows are visions
They're only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we've been told and some chose to
Believe it
But I know they're wrong wait and see

Someday we'll find it
The Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me

Who said that every wish
Would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that
And someone believed it
And look what it's done so far
What's so amazing
That keeps us star gazing
What so we think we might see

Someday we'll find it
That Rainbow Connection
The lovers the dreamers and me

Have you been fast asleep
And have you heard voices,
I've heard them calling…

Source: LyricFind

Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste "Sad Song"

A sad song?!

  Not really--simply breathtaking guitar! 

 Jesse Cook is a guitar god!!

Karma

MY FAVORITE WORD THESE DAYS!

Someone Like You - Van Morrison.wmv

Music--Gotta love Van Morrison
Mood   Ehhhh

my poor blogspot--been a long time and so much has happened since the last post in October.
Missing so much of how life used to be before the madness started....

Where did the f'n year go and how weird will it be to write 2020!!   So much more to blog but as always gotta rush off....

https://youtu.be/tIrJK19dADI

Viva la Vida

Life is so unfair as some sad news were revealed today and this came to mind, Viva la Vida as was inspired/painted by Frida Kahlo. For Frida, the meaning of Viva la Vida is all about a celebration of life, despite its sorrows and many troubles. An artist plagued by pain and illness throughout her short life, it is widely believed that Viva la Vida was Frida Kahlo's last painting, painted just days before she died ... "sensing that her time was near, Kahlo added the inscription "Viva la vida" on her death bed as her famous last words. It is indeed inspiring that, even with her own death looming near, Frida had the strength and boldness to escape pessimism even in a moment when darkness and morbidity would have been expected and even acceptable. Instead, Kahlo turned her watermelons into a symbol and celebration of life's fleeting simple pleasures...

and so I say to you Jose... Viva la Vida!

01 RESURRECTION - CHRIS PEREZ BAND

Been a long hot summer and this poor blog has been ignored of late but ready for a Resurrection!

Bruce Springsteen - There Goes My Miracle

So looking forward to new music from the boss!!  Yes I can relate to the fact that there goes my miracle walking way! 

Heartache, heartbreak, love gives, love takes
The book of love holds its rules...

Orpheus lyrics Sara Bareilles

Don't stop trying to find me here amidst the chaos...  it's blinding and sometimes I think I can't find my way out and I find myself wanting to give up. Tomorrow is another day and I hope to say, I will not give up on love today. 

Thank you Sara for your beautiful words and music!

Fire

Finally, after a five year break new music by one of my favorite artists and this song hits home...


Fire That comes and stays fire On blood and veins fire I've only ever wanted fire In my chest In my mouth On my tongue In my mind And my soul So my lungs can breathe in fire

So need to breathe in fire!!

Hozier - Movement (Live) | Vevo Official Performance

Cannot get enough of this song!  Such poetry and that voice!

So need someone to MOVE ME-Move me baby!!!

I still watch you when you're groovin' As if through water from the bottom of a pool You're movin' without movin' And when you move, I'm moved You are a call to motion There, all of you a verb in perfect view Like Jonah on the ocean When you move, I'm moved When you move I'm put to mind of all that I wanna be When you move I could never define all that you are to me So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby You are the rite of movement Its reasonin' made lucid and cool I know it's no improvement When you move, I move You're less Polunin leapin' Or Fred Astaire in sequins Honey, you, you're Atlas in his sleepin' And when you move, I'm moved When you move I can recall somethin' that's gone from me When you move Honey, I'm put in awe of somethin' so flawed and free So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby So move me, baby Like you've nothin' left to lose And nothin' to prove Move me, baby Ooh, ooh, ooh Oh baby, oh baby Move like grey skies Move like a bird of paradise Move like an odd sight come out at night Move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby So move me, baby Like you've nothin' left to lose And nothin' to prove Move me, baby So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby

The Sound of Silence (Original Version from 1964)

Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk with you again...

Been a long time of silence on this old blog.  I miss it but time slips by too fast these days. 
I walk alone in restless dreams only to wake up and touch the sound of silence and don't dare disturb the sound of silence and I no longer bow down and pray to that neon god that's made because His presence is unknown to me. 

A lot has passed these few months but a few notes to list...

R.I.P Dianne and I"m sorry we never connected after you left as that was my bad for not being able to reach out to you.

R.I.P. Max--hope you and Chulo find each other across that rainbow bridge. 

The Victim

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Sometimes Just the Sky

Sometimes just the sky is dark and grey which follows your mood of the day
but not today thanks to last night and seeing my heroine Mary Chapin Carpenter perform at her sold out show in the Heights.   Thirty years she's been singing and I've been a fan of hers ever since as her songs hit so close to home bringing tears and joy and sorrow yet providing shelter from the storms of life.  I remember her album: Time*Sex*Love* which is still one of my all time favorites and was played endlessly at the time of its release.  Perhaps now with fall here, its time again to open a bottle of wine and give that album another listen.

Frank Sinatra - Meditation (Meditação)

In my loneliness... I need your caress, a glass of wine, a massage, a kiss from you, a shoulder to lean on but you are far away and here I sit closing my eyes to fight the sadness, and so I wait for you while meditating...

One of the saddest songs by old blue eyes himself.