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I AM A GIRL OF CONSTANT SORROW

North American folk songs / songs in the folk tradition by some of my favorite female artists. Songs by sad girls for sad girls…ballads of lost love, work, death, suicide, addiction and the experience of being a lone ramblin’ woman.

1. Barbara Dane - Girl of Constant Sorrow
2. Odetta - Water Boy
3. Hedy West - The Unquiet Grave
4. Libby Holman - House of the Rising Sun
5. Peggy Seeger - I’m Gonna Be an Engineer
6. Ola Belle Reed - High on the Mountain
7. Jean Ritchie - O Johnnie’s on the Water
8. Gale Garnett - Wanderin’
9. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Cod’ine
10. Elizabeth Cotten - Here Old Rattler Here (Medley)
11. Carolyn Hester - The Praties They Grow Small
12. Berzilla Wallin - Conversation With Death
13. Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
14. Etta Baker - John Henry
15. Connie Converse - Roving Woman

Now on Spotify here
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wardens-oath:

so i was in a music store today and they were playing heavy metal music

specifically, heavy metal covers of the star wars soundtrack

let me tell you, there’s something about hearing a heavy metal rendition of the cantina band music that makes you feel like you’re having an out-of-body experience

so people have asked to hear it and y’all are lucky that i managed to snag a look at the cd on the counter (they display the one they’re playing)

so, behold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1PhK2WIEpM
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sarkastically:

Make A ‘90s Rock Playlist And We’ll Reveal Your Dominant Personality Trait

You got: Compassion

You are very warm and kind, and you feel most fulfilled when you’re helping and supporting other people. You are very easy to get along with, and you rarely expect the worst of people you meet. You dislike conflict and tend to gravitate to other agreeable people.

You got: Sensitivity

You’re very in touch with your emotions, and aren’t afraid to express your vulnerability. Your strong emotions can lead you to be impulsive, which can manifest itself in creativity and openness to experience as well as more self-destructive tendencies.
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beauty-and-the-dark-one:

The mashup you never thought would work

Congratu-fucking-lations.

I would pay so much to have this as a ringtone I’m not even joking.

Why?????

The face I made while listening to this was so visceral I had to draw it before reblogging it

@sillygooseface TORI I’M CRYING PLEASE LISTEN

this is amaaaaaaaazing
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thegirlwithgoldeyes:

MUSIC FOR MONSTERS vol 1.

Because monsters need music too.

Part 1: DEMONS: they possess people, they work for the devil, they hide your socks, they murder people for funsies. really evil things you know? [Listen Here]

Part 2: VAMPIRES: whiny immortal assholes get a job that isn’t sulking around a castle while wearing waistcoats [Listen Here]

Part 3: WEREWOLVES: do you think werewolves would genuinely play fetch with you? like how much is just like dog characteristics? would they eat the sofa or something? [Listen Here]

Part 4: WITCHES: listen witches might hang around looking at stones and cards and wearing an egregious amount of black but they’re pretty scary ok i wouldn’t fight one [Listen Here]

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exlibrisfangirl:

Home Free + Avi Kaplan cover “Ring of Fire”, a.k.a. THE BATTLE OF THE HUSBANDS

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onlyblackgirl:

Shout out to all retail workers that will have to listen to the same 6 Christmas songs all day for the next 2 Months.

I was a retail worker for four years, at a bookstore, so we got fairly decent Christmas music (we’d usually choose 3-4 of that year’s holiday albums - the years that the Blind Boys of Alabama released theirs was a good year) but we’d still get sick of them.

Except one.

There was one Christmas album I never got sick of. We’d all perk up and cheer a bit when this disc got its turn in the rotation. I heard it several times a day at least. What is this magical Christmas album, you may ask?

It was “’Tis the Season” by Los Straitjackets.

Los Straitjackets are a surf-guitar instrumental combo who perform in all-black and Mexican wrestling masks.

Yep. Holiday tunes played in surf guitar. I never got sick of it. It always got my feet moving.

Here’s a sample, their version of Sleigh Ride, ah I know it so well.

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nekodamari:

sp0tlessmxnd:

I have no words for this.. Phenomenal

Perfection.

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laughingsquid:

How the Musical Identity is Missing in Marvel Films

Did I make this video or something??

This is fascinating!

It fucked with my mind to hear that the “Captain America Theme” from Captain America: Winter Solider, by Henry Jackman, sped up by 105% sounds very close to “Brothers in Arms” by Junkie XL for Mad Max: Fury Road.

And “Mombassa” from Inception by Hanz Zimmer sounds a lot like “Mass vs. Acceleration” from “Drive Angry” by Michael Wandmacher.

Marvel stopping just short of taking emotional risks? THE HELL YOU SAY.

Other than the mixed tape in Guardians, which was popular music and not score, the only bit of sound I can even remember from any Marvel movie is the screechy sound played when the Winter Soldier showed up. I can’t even dredge up whatever’s played over the comic-pages-flipping opener in every movie and I’ve probably seen it a dozen times now. Is it even the same in every film? No idea.

I feel so sorry for those thwarted vidders! ;)
We do what we want out here on the raggedy edge. Freedom tastes sweet, don’t it?

HA. Writing your own composition and throwing in a symphony adds a level of complexity. ;)

This was so fascinating. And great to see the Elfman. Working with temps sounds beyond frustrating.

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isaacsapphire:

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hssanya:

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor, and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

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Jolene (33 R.P.M) - click for .mp3

Unsure where this came from, if not the palsied hands of the good Lord himself.

Simple premise: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” slipped from 45 to 33 rpm. Nothing more; no studio trickery, no trip hop drum breaks. The guitar lopes back in and around itself. The bass becomes elastic, hot rubber. The violin stabs become sustained cello lines. The backing choir’s split harmony rattles around, slinking ghostly into the corner. And most importantly, Parton’s once-frantic vocal is transformed from bubblegum country scrawl into something approximating field holler reverence.

An already perfect song made transcendental..

this works … pretty much perfectly. even the vocal.

I’m not a C&W or Dolly Parton fan so I’m not familiar with the song. Listening to the two versions one after the other (”proper” speed here) it sounds as if the apparent contralto voice in the 33rpm is the original.

A lower register and slower tempo seems more appropriate to the melancholy subject of the lyrics. Obviously not the case, but there you go.