Or, and hear me out Shaq, it made your sign off MORE awesome…
TIL violin players can play pizzicato arpeggios (about the 3:20 mark). Wow.
The whole piece was a thing of joy.
Pat the Bunny:
Cardi B’s WAP in American Sign Language:
Wow.
Some positivity for a Friday morning:
Allen Toussaint wrote this classic for Lee Dorsey: Lee Dorsey yes we can part 1 & 2 - YouTube
Here is Toussaint doing it himself:
The cover by the Pointer sisters is the more famous version. Here is them doing it live on Soul Train:
Still on a folk punk binge…
Mr. Mateus Aleluia.
Member of the vocal trio “Os Tincoãs”, singer-songwriter Mateus Aleluia developed his musical career between Brazil and Angola in the 1960s to 1980s.
My wife found this shanty-singing group the other day and they’re really good. Here’s a couple of my favorites from their latest album…
First, a somber-but-determined song for somber-but-determined times:
And to make up for the seriousness, something quite a bit more lighthearted:
50 years gone but not forgotten…
I’ve got a couple Dead Kennedy’s albums in my ipod (yes, I still use one, the hard drive is twice as big as the one on my phone). Amazing how relevant their songs are even today. Except for California Uber Ales, that one just sounds really silly now.
Lobo Guará.
Contention: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the perfect album.
