Mapping Influences Over Time
I was introduced to Blackmore’s Night just months after accidentally discovering Loreena McKennitt. It seems kind of odd doesn’t it? I mean both artists affected me in very similar ways. Their music was somewhat haunting and addicting. Their music carried the traditions of an ancient world blended with their unique interpretations. While Loreena McKennitt blends Celtic …
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Here we have yet another exhibit from the News Groups. I wasn’t searching for this but sometimes things were simply meant to happen. As demonstrated with Spike Jones, Frank Zappa and Spinal Tap, you can see that I appreciate humor in music. The first piece I heard was the Led Zeppelin Medley but that prompted …
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If you were to ask me which music group comes to mind when I think of those old News Groups days, my word association reflex answer would have to be Delerium. Before the News Groups, I had never heard of Delerium or any songs by them. Remember when I was talking about the news …
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If you try to list all the ways that you find out about music, how may are there? I suppose Radio, TV, Peers, Family and Retail establishments might make the list. A big reason that our friends are our friends is that they have a reasonable understanding of what makes us tick. That is why …
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The timing of my involvement with Blackmore’s Night was similar to my discovery of Ray Lynch. I was introduced to their second albums. I then bought their first albums and very soon after they released their third albums. So their was plenty of new stuff to absorb at first. I’ll admit that Under A Violet Moon is still …
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After the accidental discovery of The Book Of Secrets, I made a serious attempt to fill in the blanks with Loreena McKennitt’s work. The Mask And Mirror was the album she released just prior to The Book Of Secrets. It has many of the same ingredients that make it such a haunting and attractive collection. …
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My wife has 7 brothers, a twin sister and an Irish father. The boys are separated by over 15 years from the oldest to the youngest. The oldest is just a few years younger than me. The youngest was a baby when I married his sister. What I’m getting to is that there were so many kids …
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When you are combing the Compact Disc racks looking for Dean Martin, you will inevitably run across Diana Krall. Her album The Look Of Love must have just come out or just won some awards during my Dino acquisition phase. I was seeing this album over and over again. At the time, I had not …
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I have been a fan of Dean Martin’s my whole life. Dino was present in The Scratchy 45’s, The Christmas Albums, mom and I used to watch his variety show, and his movies like the Matt Helm series were favorites. Some people think that Frank Sinatra is the voice of the era but I disagree. If …
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Sometimes a really good album comes totally unexpected, right out of no where. I heard the O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack before I saw the movie or even heard of the movie. We were in Aric’s truck and hew was driving us up to Strawberry for another fishing weekend. This would have been October of 2001. We were …
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