Those Darlin's Vinyl Release Party Video

you have to move to 1:28 to see the Darlin's ... but the "I got drunk and ate the whole Chicken"... is pretty funny, and the end ... my goodness such a mosh pit... maybe they might be too wild for a house concert. HA.

Christine Kane- CD Release Concert weekend

Christine Kane is an incredible talented singer, writer, and organized person. Check this video of a weekend she's planning for CD release with a life changing workshop the day before. Plus she puts her money where she talks as she is contributing her proceeds to Helpmate. a domestic violence organization that has been empowering women to go on with their lives in North Carolina. I wish her the best of success.

Bruce Cockburn's Barrelhouse all night long

I ran into Adriano Di Folco covering "Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long" by Bruce Cockburn in his TAXI (live in Rome). I should learn more about Adriano.

Catherine Maclellan "Too Easy"

I am way to busy to get wrapped up in much of anything recently, but I am getting wrapped up in Catherine. So is she just another Canadien singer that I'll never meet, Carolyn Arends, Rose Reiter, Kendal Carson, Leslie Alexander, Serena Postel, or Sabrina Kufner? So what's up with Canadian Female singers.. God I love them.

Well all I can say, is that today the few songs I do own from her played over and over in my office for about 20 plays each. I absolutely love "Water in the Ground"... here's one I should probably get off of iTunes.

I'm a little Catfish...cover by Drew Nelson

I'm just discovering Drew since he sent me a CD as a potential artist to have at the Bluff View House Concerts... dang I'm really tempted.

A lesson in blogging from Blue Gal

I recently ran into Blue Gal and thought she did have a good blog going on... then I ran into this lesson from her posted back in March of 2009.

Arms of a Woman

I'm sorry... to my surprise this is the second time I tried to post this video to the blog. This video was first on a Paste Magazine DVD and I thought... Wow what a song... I don't understand why they don't allow embedding, so here's the link again and a picture from it.

go watch it; it's so romantic

Willow....

Willow look at yourself.
When you were born no one could have forseen.
You would turn out more like a scrub pine.

So you are not majestic.
Tall and stunning with long blonde branches
Hanging over a slow moving creek.

You live as a lone tree,
An individual on a grand mountain side.
Providing a source of life to many.

Willow you soften reality.
Basking in God’s glory, you’re a pillow
A small humble respite of joy.

By Dave Schipper © 2009 Rose Riversongs

Photo Credits

This is great...

Video of Peter Mulvey packing the day before he leaves on a 3 week tour from Milwaukee Wisconsin to Boston, Massachusetts.... video courtesy of Izmed.

If I could...

If I could,
I would dress you.
The finest cotton
Soft peasant
Dress.

If I could,
I would help braid
Your silken hair
A expose your
Neck.

If I could,
I would kiss you
Once, twice, three times
Softly and longer each
Time.

Goodmorning
My love.


Dave Schipper © 2007 Rose Riversongs

St. Paul's Song

Peirce Pettis is one of my absolute favorite songwriters, but here he masterfully used St. Paul's letter to the Corinthinians and made it one of the most absolute best wedding song that gets no coverage. I checked again... not a single person has this listed in iTunes... a money maker for all those people looking for good Christian wedding songs.



Yes I relearned this for a wedding but rest assured... I ain't singing for it.

HA

Free time with Rachel Pearl

Now that I got your attention... Rachel wants to tell you something:

www.rachelpearldownload.com

Catherine Maclellan "Something Gold"

Music Fog slipped this in a few weeks after they posted the first video. Ran into it again tonight in my favorites and with a click of a button, bought it on iTunes. She has such a clean traditional sound.... I'm sure this is not the last purchase of her music.

Internet meanderings...

What a wonderful place to run into.... sure I should be outside digging potatoes or cutting the lawn, but I'm finding sites like this!
www.npr.org/music

I'm headed back there to listen to Chip Taylor's Song by Song Autobiography. Who's Chip?

September 3, 2009 from WFUV - Some people get more than their fair share of the action. Chip Taylor emerged from a family loaded with talent — one brother became a famous geologist, while another is actor Jon Voight — and went on to become both a legendary gambler and the writer of classic songs such as "Wild Thing," "Angel of the Morning" and "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)."

As you can imagine, he has stories to tell of his exploits at the track and on the road. As a performer in his own right, Taylor has become enormously popular overseas — and he certainly won over a live audience in WFUV's Studio-A. His latest project, Songs from a Dutch Tour, is a book and CD that acts like a song-by-song autobiography. In an hour-long session, Taylor gave us a personal tour of his rich and unpredictable career.

Walk on

Now how is this putting your mouth and feet into action for a cause The Slater Sister's new song, "Walk On", is available to purchase for $1 on their website www.theslatersisters.com/merchandise - proceeds are going towards their fundraising efforts for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer!!! Please download the song, and spread the word to anyone you know who would like it as well. It's just $1, and it will help make a difference!

Brett Dennan Ain't No Reason / Weed Money Man

Wow, I haven't posted one of my most favorite song especially since this one was recommend to me by Natalie Portman. "Ain't No Reason" was on her iTunes charity mix and it's wonderful.



Now here he and the band are having fun at the Minnesota State Fair

The fog of life

The fog changed everything
There went the plan for easy drive
Eyes fixed, margins razor thin.
Not the moment he craved

The wipers worked like shit
Fluid and defrosters deployed
Almost resembled his life a bit
Both stuck in a cold humid void.

The rearview mirror had the same fog.
The bathroom mirror had the same boy.
Miles away from the last hug
But like that the fog lifts, oh the joy.

A two mile respite is okay
To a life of snippets and texts.
So seize the day they say
Drive out of the foggy complex.

By Dave Schipper © 2009 Rose Riversongs

Meet me in the morning

Lately I've been listening to Eric Clapton's cover of this Dylan Classic... and I really love this one... it made folding the laundry go much quicker.

Amy Speace is the Real Thing..... Really.

Ok... move over Coke ... Amy is the real Real Thing... I loved when she swapped Greg Brown during the workshop for James Brown during the Great River Folk Fest.

I don't like men who tell me how to talk and how to dress
I don't like girls who gossip when their own life is a mess
I don't like winter in New York 'cause I don't like too much wind
But I like the way you feel against me naked on my skin
And I'll tell you what I think and I won't sugarcoat it baby,
I am the real thing

I'm too young to know better but I'm too damn old to care
With enough tequila I might take up any dare
I'm as aloof as November and mean like July
But I can purr like a little kitten if you scratch me on my side
I like the way I look although I am not model thin
I am the real thing

Do I make you blush do I talk too loud
Do I drink too much, do I act too proud?
Well take me as I am or take another now
'Cause I am not going to change for nobody no how
I am not a good reformer I found a twisted satisfaction
When I went back to confession just to see the priests' reaction
After quite a pause he asked me if I was contrite then
He gave me 25 Hail Marys to repeat every night
Then I asked him am I free to go repeating all of my sins
I am the real thing

Chorus
You can look to the princess In her high glass tower
Or join us witches we keep very late hours
We are the real thing



oh yeah for regular readers... Yep I think I'm in love again.

Freight Train Medley

Elizabeth Cotten wrote the best train song, John Prine said that Steve Goodman's City of New Orleans was next and Bruce Utah Phillips lived the life and knew all the railroad songs and hobos.... I smashed them together in this little guitar lesson video.

And surprisingly the only one I didn't see above live was Steve Goodman.