What's on your playlist?

[Fred Henderson]

Carlos Santana - Samba Pa Ti, House of Blues Las Vegas, 2016. Carlos shows the old magic, 45+ years after the fact. Wonderful.

[Fred Henderson]

Just saw a CBC documentary on Buffy St. Marie, Canadian folk singer / songwriter.

Interesting facts: she was the first woman to breastfeed (for real) on TV.

The TV show she breastfed her son on: Sesame Street

Big Bird: "That's a strange way to feed a baby."

Buffy explains that many women feed their babies this way.

By the end of the clip, Big Bird says he finds it lovely ... I think that's the word that was used.

Have to say, after seeing this I'm a big Buffy St. Marie fan.

Documentary is called "Buffy St. Marie: Carry It On"

Good call. I'll look for it. Marie's version of Joni Mitchell's "Circle Game" is one of my earliest musical memories. Speaking of Joni Mitchell, here's an awesome video, Joni Mitchell, 90 minutes Intimate and Interactive on Much Music. Click "watch omn YouTube

edit: oooh. this is 1994, Joni breaks the law and chain smokes in Much Music studio.

[Fred Henderson]

My favorite music video. The Pretenders, with special guest on guitar, play the 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of fame induction ceremony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yj-FYOjmSU

[Fred Henderson]

When it comes to guitar, I am hard pressed to imagine a better performance than this. John McLaughlin - Paco de Lucia, Frevo Rasgado, from the Friday Night in San Fransisco performance.

[Fred Henderson]

different versions of the patsy cline classic Sweet Dreams

The Original, 1963

Roy Buchanan - Live from Austin, Texas, 1976

Willie Nelson and \Faron Young - 1985

[Fred Henderson]

greetings. I leave you with one of my favorite albums since the '80s

John Fahey - God, Time, and Causality. Fahey was a unique and very versatile solo acoustic guitarist, with dozens of album. I actually had tickets to see him, but the show was cancelled and I found out later that he had died on the operating table while undergoing quadruple bypass. R.I.P.

[Neil Frarey]

Merry Christmas ...

[Neil Frarey]

H.Purcell - Ground in c minor. Vadym Kholodenko

For those unaware a 'Ground' or 'Ground Bass' or 'Basso Ostinato' is a specific type of ostinato in which a bass line repeats throughout a work or section.

https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusi...r/ground-bass/

[Neil Frarey]

[Fred Henderson]

Ain't it nice when a previously unlistened to artist and song that is older than you are jumps to the top of your playlist.

A simple English folk ballad with a wonderful story and a John Prine like melody, and some top-notch solo acoustic guitar fingerpicking Doc Watson - Matty Groves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwOCf4My2o&t=52s

[Fred Henderson]

lovin this stuff. some recent solo acoustic videos of Bruce Cockburn

from 2021 Wondering where the lions are - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2l1KPjT4c

Tokyo - CBC studios - Tokyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQkVrqx5pY

[Fred Henderson]

Bestest guitar solo of ALL times ...

... by far!!!

hmmm.... Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil.

You may be interested to know that Jagger and Richards offered Roy Buchanan the job after Mick Taylor quit the band, but he turned them down. I sure Roy would have been bored to tears, although he probably would have made a lot more money.

[Fred Henderson]

Boz Scaggs self-titled album, released in 1969, was actually his second album. Featuring the late great Duane Allman on guitar, it's a fantastic album, very soulful, recorded some years before he sold his soul for the almighty dollar and went disco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5s3...apSjc4&index=2