Saturday, January 13, 2007
In tough political times, take refuge in the compelling sound of early blues. You'll find at the end of this posting one of the best, most varied Internet radio stations playing rural blues -- and you can even make requests. Thanks for the lead , and a tip o' the music hat to my friend, Tom D'Antoni,musical afficionado and author, for turning me on to a station so obscure that sometimes only a handful of people are listening: we lucky few who have discovered it.
You can even hear -- and request -- songs by the rarely heard blues singer Geeshie Wiley, whose haunting blues, "Last Kind Words," refers to her lover going off to war and never coming back -- and it still resonates today when so many lives are on the line. You may have heard the song played in the film Ghost World, and wondered about who made such unearthly music. But like a ghost whose faint traces can still be felt, little is known about her, but a few tracks of her remarkable music remain. Hear more like her on this oddly named Internet radio station:
Weenie Juke Radio
You can even hear -- and request -- songs by the rarely heard blues singer Geeshie Wiley, whose haunting blues, "Last Kind Words," refers to her lover going off to war and never coming back -- and it still resonates today when so many lives are on the line. You may have heard the song played in the film Ghost World, and wondered about who made such unearthly music. But like a ghost whose faint traces can still be felt, little is known about her, but a few tracks of her remarkable music remain. Hear more like her on this oddly named Internet radio station:
Weenie Juke Radio
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