Buffy Sainte-Marie honoured with new Canada Post stamp. Joining the ranks of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Rush, Indigenous singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is the latest artist to be honoured with a commemorative Canadian stamp.
Canada Post revealed the stamp celebrating Sainte-Marie at a small, in-person event at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Thursday. "It feels like an embrace. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered) The Greatest Creative Run in the History of Popular Music. Most Americans follow up their 21st birthdays with a hangover; Stevie Wonder opted for arguably the greatest sustained run of creativity in the history of popular music.
Wonder’s “classic period”—the polite phrase for when Stevie spent five years ferociously dunking on the entire history of popular music with the releases of Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness’ First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life—is usually placed between 1972 and 1976, but it really begins a year earlier, with that birthday. In May 1971, Wonder turned 21 and gained access to 10 years’ worth of royalties that had been accruing in a trust set up for him by Motown Records when he’d signed his first contract, at age 11. He also allowed his Motown contract to expire, meaning that one of pop music’s hottest stars, on his 21st birthday, was now both financially secure and a free agent. Traveling Wilburys - The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys Documentary. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (1960) (Full Album) Best Bob Dylan Songs According To 80 Musicians click 2x. My first exposure to a Bob Dylan song was probably the Byrds version of “Mr.
Tambourine Man.” I heard it on a crappy transistor radio in my bedroom in Arbutus, a Baltimore suburb. Robert Hunter on Grateful Dead's Early Days and 'Sacred' Songs. Man, it's a hot one. Rob Thomas is well aware of the journey that “Smooth,” his 1999 collaboration with Carlos Santana, has taken during the past two decades.
“It went through the, ‘Hey, this is a good, cool summer jam,’ and then the, ‘Hey, we’re all sick of this song and never want to hear it again,’” he says. “And then it went through the, ‘Hey, let’s listen to that song again. I remember it. That sounds good still!’” It’s easy to forget that 20 years ago, when cross-genre alliances weren’t in vogue, the very idea of “Smooth” seemed absurd.
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A rich, expressive vocalist and a gifted interpreter, Sosa was dubbed "the voice of the silent majority" for her choice of overtly political material, and alongside artists including Violeta Parra and Atahualpa Yupanqui, she spearheaded the rise of the so-called "nueva canción" movement, which heralded the emergence of protest music across Argentina and Chile during the '60s. Gracias a la Vida - Por Mercedes Sosa. Joan Baez & Mercedes Sosa "Gracias A La Vida" LEAD BELLY: KING OF THE 12-STRING GUITAR. Leadbelly - Good Mornin' Blues. Crosby Stills Nash & Young - VH1 Legends Documentary. David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash speak. Laura Nyro CBS News Sunday Morning 2001. Joni Mitchell Library - Joni Mitchell Dug Deep to Make Her Dark Masterpiece ‘Blue’: Daily Beast, October 22, 2017. As 1970 drew to a close, Joni did one more major benefit concert, Amchitka, supporting the launch of a fledgling environmental organization, Greenpeace, which was protesting nuclear weapons tests in Amchitka, Alaska.
Joining her there, as a surprise guest, was a young James Taylor, who, for a brief but crucial time, would be Joni's old man (though not "My Old Man" of her song, a keepsake from her romance with Graham Nash). The two were both regulars at the Troubadour, a West Hollywood club on La Cienega that became famous as a launching pad for a generation of singer-songwriters. Joni Mitchell Woman of Heart and Mind (documentary, subt esp) New Joni Mitchell Collection Captures Her Early Career Transformation. “You know, if you sing it pretty, like a lot of people that cover my songs will sing it pretty, it’s going to fall flat,” she reflects in the liner notes.
“You have to bring more to it than that.” A beautiful woman (as she’s identified, tirelessly, by industry men in the collection’s newspaper clippings and audio snippets) insisting that there was much more to her than just beauty was its own kind of subversion. So over these four years of remarkable artistic growth, we can also hear the thrill of a woman shrugging off the shackles of affably feminine likability and politeness.