Etta James - The Sky Is Crying
 

Sia (The Moon)(Under The Milkyway)
 

Master K - Jerusalema
 

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - That's All
 

Mercy (Brett Young)
 

Last night after work I was surfin for new country music to listen to and came across Brett — over on YouTube. His music is new to me, never heard of his music before. I definitely will check out more of his songs.

Whiskey Lullabye (Carly Pearce & Brett Young)
 

:listening:

Hiromi - Blackbird (Beatles)- Live in Montreal
 

Melody Angel - If Trouble Was Money
 

Natasha T. Miller - An Open Letter to Raven Symoné
 

Joey Alexander - My Favorite Things, Animated
 

On The Turntable
 

https://youtu.be/_BZcz0T9B7I?si=uqgMYMNhAyBs0I4e










Tina Turner.... Steamy Windows

Art Blakey - Moanin’
 

The Mississippi Mass Choir - I'm Not Tired Yet
 

Black Gospel music was the background music to the civil rights movement to fight Jim Crow laws.

Wonder what music will be used against the upcoming Project 2025 laws.

Etta James - Sweet Little Angel
 

The Blues

Miriam Makeba speaks Xhosa language, sings 'Baxabene Oxamu'
 

From Youtube: Miriam Makeba pronounces the alphabet in click sounds. Click consonants are frequent in her native Xhosa language, and she sings a song that uses them, 'Baxabene Oxamu.'

From Wikipedia: "Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately 8.2 million people and by another 11 million as a second language in South Africa. It has perhaps the heaviest functional load of click consonants in a Bantu language, with one count finding that 10% of basic vocabulary items contained a click." It's a written language that uses the Roman alphabet.

Kendrick Lamar - Squabble Up
 

Be aware: Explicit language and adult themes

There’s always so much to unpack in Lamar’s videos. Even when he’s throwing shade he shows love, especially for Cali culture.

“Jesus saves gangsters, too.” Even those who hide the Bible.

Joan Armatrading - Willow
 

Last night it was a playlist of songs from the 1960s & early 1970s: Tommy James and the Shondelles, Percy Faith, Pink Floyd, and Duran Duran (odd mix of compilations).

Today it’s listening to classical music and cello arrangements:

Cello Concerto in B minor

Huron Carol from Under The Winter Moon
 

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Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers from 1600s