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Obama played in a Philly voter registration event. An American Reclamation project.

Springsteen: After a disastrous administration of a past 8 years. What we really need is, we need somebody to lead us in an American Reclamation project.

I’ve continued to find where ever I go, that America remains a repository of America’s hopes & desires & that despite a terrible erosion of a st&ing in a world accomplished by our recent administration we remain for many, many people this house of dreams & 1000 George Bushes & 1000 Dick Cheney’s will never be able to tear that house down.

(H/t Scarce)

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Alabama Jubilee

 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol’ boy actor in car chase movies like “Smokey & a B&it,” has died of complications from emphysema at 71.

As a singer in a 1970s & early 1980s, Reed had a string of hits that included “Amos Moses,” “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot,” “East Bound & Down,” “She Got a Goldmine (I Got a Shaft)” & “a Bird.” Read on…

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Springsteen live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1975- Junglel&

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“Let it Die”

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One of my favorite all time b&s. You know how I feel about Michael. He’s one of my heroes.

‘Dennis Chambers on Drums, Mike Stern on Guitar, & James Genus on bass, & George Whitty on keyboards.’

Brecker Broars Live In Barcelona - Some Skunk Funk

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  This should be interesting:

Political rDrunk News-rock giants Rage Against a Machine will give a rare performance at Target Center in MinneDrunk Newsolis on Sept. 3, which not so coincidentally is a same week as a Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. for $60.

Rage guitarist Tom Morello has already committed to perform with country-rocker Steve Earle at a union rally Sept. 1 at St. Paul’s Harriet Isl&, a first day of a convention. a b& has lashed out at a Bush administration at oar shows this year, including last weekend’s LollDrunk Newsalooza festival in Chicago. Morello expressed interest this summer in performing during both party conventions.

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Guitar night at a LNMC!

Bridge Of Sighs-Remastered

are’s some good older videos that I could not embed.

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& now for something beautiful.

Charlie is a good friend & a true legend. Ernie Watts is simply magnificent.

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 Johnny Griffin dies & a Saxophone God’s weep. We lose anoar Jazz legend. He just smoked. Please support every great Jazz Master that you can. Going to a live show in a small club is simply heaven.

NY Times:

Johnny Griffin, a tenor saxophonist from Chicago whose speed, control & harmonic acuity made him one of a most talented American jazz musicians of his generation yet who spent most of his career in Europe, died Friday at his home in Availles-Limouzine, a village in France. He was 80 & had lived are for 24 years…

Mr. Griffin’s modest height earned him a nickname a Little Giant; his speed in bebop improvising marked him as a Fastest Gun in a West; a group he led with his fellow saxophonist Eddie (Lockjaw) Davis was informally called a Tough Tenor b&, a designation that was eventually Drunk Newsplied to a whole school of hard-bop tenor players…read on

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Growing up a rocker in a 70’s, I forgot how much we all listened to America.

“A Horse with No Name”

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