I got backed up with a mild family emergency — everything’s fine now — and I decided to just go gonzo with writing stuff tonight because I needed to clean out the pipes. But that meant that I wasn’t in a musical mind right now, so… no video. Sorry about that.
Suggestions welcome. I mean, I’m starting to prefer the Samsung to the iPod when it comes to music. At least I have all my songs now.
I understand the entire ‘drinking their pain’ bit…
You can yap until the cows come home about artists' rights, but I will never not find it hilarious when Repubs use their music and they cry.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) September 11, 2015
…but many if not most of these bands, in point of fact, signed away their right to dictate who can and cannot use their music. Frankly, there will come a day when a fed-up campaign ends up suing one of these bands for fraud because said band offered the music via ASCAP, then raised too much of a stink when the wrong people bought a license. That I’ll find hilarious, because the campaign will probably win.
…is offering an alternative to buying their music than that of the standard distribution model, you may want to consider using it. They probably have a damned good reason. And they may not be even allowed to talk about it, because the music industry can be horrible that way.
Via Instapundit.
So, I told my sister-in-law that I’d put a list together of good albums I own of sea music (shanties, specifically, but other music as well): she has the Pyrates Royale stuff already, but wanted more breadth. So I put the list together, and then thought… hey, my readers might like a list, too.
So here’s a preliminary list: it is not even remotely inclusive survey on sea music, but I like all the albums on this list. Between them, they cover a lot of the basics. Feel free to add your own in comments.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
97th Regimental String Band
This is probably my favorite Civil War re-enactment band. Yes, I listen to several.
