12/31/2011

Elmore James - Stranger Blues


Elmore James - The King of Slide Guitar

Born January 27, 1918, in Richland, Mississippi, Elmore James was raised on several different farms in the Durant, Mississippi, area by sharecropping parents. Before acquiring his first guitar, he played several different homemade instruments, including a strand of broomwire nailed to the front porch of his cabin. This was known locally as a "diddley bow." In 1932, at the age of fourteen, Elmore James, also known as Joe Willie, began playing guitar for parties and dances in the Durant area.

By 1937 James had moved on to plantations near the Delta town of Belzoni, Mississippi, and taken up with musicians Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Johnson. Johnson's guitar prowess made a terrific impact on James, who would echo Johnson's slide technique in his own recordings. After Johnson's death, James toured the South with Williamson working juke joints and theaters. He assembled a band in 1939 after parting ways with Williamson. During the late 1930s or early 1940s James began playing electric guitar. He became a master of using the distortion and sustain of this instrument to create a dense, textured sound that provided the blueprint for postwar Chicago blues.

James was inducted into the Navy in 1943, taking part in the invasion of Guam before being mustered out in 1945. He was soon back home in Belzoni, sharing a room with Sonny Boy Williamson and working the local jukes. James also began a professional partnership with his guitar-playing cousin "Homesick" James Williamson, working clubs on Beale Street in Memphis. In 1947, James backed up Sonny Boy on KFFA radio's King Biscuit Time program in Helena, Arkansas. The show was initially broadcast from the Interstate Grocery Building before it moved to the Floyd Truck Lines Building. During his stint on KFFA, James fell under the spell of Robert Nighthawk, refining his style to reflect Nighthawk's liquid, crying slide guitar.

While working clubs with Williamson in Jackson, Mississippi, James made his first record for Lillian McMurry's Trumpet Label. On August 5, 1951, at the Trumpet Studios, James cut the Robert Johnson chestnut "Dust My Broom" which reached number nine on the national R&B charts within several months of its release. James established residency in Chicago the following year, forming his legendary band the Broomdusters. While never attaining the fame of fellow Mississippi expatriates Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, James became one of the city's most influential guitarists. He recorded for a variety of labels throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, leaving a legacy of slow blues, boogies, and full-fledged rave ups that dominate the musical vocabulary of Chicago blues.

Elmore James died May 24, 1963, in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of forty-five. Elmore James's grave is located near his native Durant, Mississippi.



12/30/2011

Aretha Franklin - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of late-'60s hits with Atlantic Records--"Respect," "I Never Loved a Man," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Think," "The House That Jack Built," and several others--earned her the title "Lady Soul," which she has worn uncontested ever since.

12/29/2011

Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of late-'60s hits with Atlantic Records--"Respect," "I Never Loved a Man," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Think," "The House That Jack Built," and several others--earned her the title "Lady Soul," which she has worn uncontested ever since.

12/28/2011

Barefoot Ballad

Elvis Presley Barefoot Ballad

Written by Dolores Fuller and lee Morris.
Elvis recorded it in October 1963 at RCAs Nashville studios for his 1964 film Kissins Cousins. It is available on the Kissin Cousins/Clambake/Stay Away, Joe soundtrack compilation.

I want a barefoot ballad
Yes a barefoot ballad
Won't you play for me a down home country song
'Cause when I kick my shoes off and I kick my blues off
With a barefoot ballad you just can't go wrong


Give me a honk-tonk fiddle with a guitar 
in the middle and a melody
Humming like a fountain 
swinging out on Smokey mountain


I want a barefoot ballad
yes a barefoot ballad
Won't you play for me a down home country song
'Cause when I kick my shoes off and I kick my blues off
With a barefoot ballad you just can't go wrong


Now the big toe's connected to the two toe
And the two toe's connected to the three toe
And the three toe's connected to the four toe
And the four toe's connected to the five toe
And the five toe and away we go


I want a barefoot ballad
yes a barefoot ballad
Won't you play for me a down home country song
'Cause when I kick my shoes off and I kick my blues off
With a barefoot ballad you just can't go wrong
Now the big toe's connected to the two toe
And the two toe's connected to the three toe
And the three toe's connected to the four toe
And the four toe's connected to the five toe
And the five toe and away we go


I wanna barefoot ballad
yes a barefoot ballad
Won't you play for me a barefoot ballad song.









Aretha Franklin - Groovin

Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of late-'60s hits with Atlantic Records--"Respect," "I Never Loved a Man," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Think," "The House That Jack Built," and several others--earned her the title "Lady Soul," which she has worn uncontested ever since.

12/27/2011

Aretha Franklin - Think

Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of late-'60s hits with Atlantic Records--"Respect," "I Never Loved a Man," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Think," "The House That Jack Built," and several others--earned her the title "Lady Soul," which she has worn uncontested ever since.

12/26/2011

Aretha Franklin - Respect

Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of late-'60s hits with Atlantic Records--"Respect," "I Never Loved a Man," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Think," "The House That Jack Built," and several others--earned her the title "Lady Soul," which she has worn uncontested ever since.



12/15/2011

Raul Seixas - Coração Noturno

Do álbum Raul Seixas, também chamado de Carimbador Maluco. Coração Noturno, não sei porque mas hoje acordei cantando esta música! Valeu Raul!

12/08/2011

Rainbow - Gates Of Babylon

Rainbow were an English rock band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975. Right after the split-up of Elf, four members of Elf and ex-Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore formed band called Rainbow. The name supposedly came from the Rainbow bar located in Los Angeles, where Elf and Ritchie Blackmore used to spend their free time.
 

Imagine - John Lennon

Imagine John Lennon today here with us. 21 years later his premature dead.

 If John Lennon had only been one of the four members of the Beatles, his artistic immortality would already have been assured. The so-called “smart Beatle,” he brought a penetrating intelligence and a stinging wit both to the band’s music and its self-presentation. But in such songs as “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown),” “Rain” and “In My Life,” he also marshaled gorgeous melodies to evoke a sophisticated, dreamlike world-weariness well beyond his years. Such work suggested not merely a profound musical and literary sensibility – a genius, in short — but a vision of life that was simultaneously reflective, utopian and poignantly realistic.
 

12/04/2011

Corinthians - Campeão Brasileiro 2011

Tentaram...160 milhões de anti-corinthianos tentaram...mas ninguém pode superar o amor e a raça da Nação Corinthiana. Somos 30 milhões de loucos. Loucos por Ti Corinthians! Parabéns Sport Club Corinthians Paulista! Penta Campeão Brasileiro - 2011

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RodadaPartidaDataHora
38ºCorinthians 0 X 0 Palmeiras04/12/201117:00
37ºFigueirense 0 X 1 Corinthians27/11/201117:00
36ºCorinthians 2 X 1 Atlético-MG20/11/201117:00
35ºCeará 0 X 1 Corinthians16/11/201121:50
34ºCorinthians 2 X 1 Atlético-PR13/11/201117:00
33ºAmérica-MG 2 X 1 Corinthians06/11/201117:00
32ºCorinthians 2 X 1 Avaí30/10/201116:00
31ºInternacional 1 X 1 Corinthians23/10/201116:00
30ºCruzeiro 0 X 1 Corinthians16/10/201116:00
29ºCorinthians 0 X 2 Botafogo12/10/201121:50
28ºCorinthians 3 X 0 Atlético-GO09/10/201118:00
27ºVasco 2 X 2 Corinthians02/10/201116:00
26ºCorinthians 1 X 0 Bahia25/09/201116:00
25ºSão Paulo 0 X 0 Corinthians21/09/201121:50
24ºCorinthians 1 X 3 Santos18/09/201116:00
23ºFluminense 1 X 0 Corinthians11/09/201116:00
22ºCorinthians 2 X 1 Flamengo08/09/201121:50
21ºCoritiba 1 X 0 Corinthians04/09/201116:00
20ºCorinthians 3 X 2 Grêmio31/08/201118:00
19ºPalmeiras 2 X 1 Corinthians28/08/201116:00
18ºCorinthians 0 X 2 Figueirense20/08/201118:00
17ºAtlético-MG 2 X 3 Corinthians17/08/201121:50
16ºCorinthians 2 X 2 Ceará14/08/201116:00
Santos 0 X 0 Corinthians10/08/201121:50
15ºAtlético-PR 1 X 1 Corinthians07/08/201116:00
14ºCorinthians 2 X 1 América-MG03/08/201119:30
13ºAvaí 3 X 2 Corinthians31/07/201116:00
11ºCorinthians 0 X 1 Cruzeiro24/07/201116:00
10ºBotafogo 0 X 2 Corinthians20/07/201121:50
12ºCorinthians 1 X 0 Internacional14/07/201121:00
Atlético-GO 0 X 1 Corinthians10/07/201116:00
Corinthians 2 X 1 Vasco06/07/201121:50
Bahia 0 X 1 Corinthians29/06/201121:50
Corinthians 5 X 0 São Paulo26/06/201116:00
Corinthians 2 X 0 Fluminense12/06/201116:00
Flamengo 1 X 1 Corinthians05/06/201116:00
Corinthians 2 X 1 Coritiba29/05/201116:00
Grêmio 1 X 2 Corinthians22/05/201116:00

Doutor Sócrates - Descanse em Paz!

Magrão! Descanse em paz! Que o penta venha em sua homenagem! Vc sempre será lembrado como um dos maiores ídolos da história corinthiana!



12/02/2011

Muddy Waters - Got my Mojo Workin'

Muddy Mississipi Waters - The Father of Modern Chicago Blues

Willie Dixon -- Blues You Can't Lose

Can you imagine what music would be like without such hits as “Hoochie Coochie Man”, “Little Red Rooster”, “Spoonful”, “I Ain’t Superstitious”, “I Can’t Quit You Baby” or “My Babe”? Neither could most. Thankfully, we don’t have to. Little did the world know that in 1915, the person who made all of this possible would be born. Willie Dixon was one of the greatest and most prolific artists ever to sing the blues, with more than 500 compositions to his credit. Dixon’s songs literally created the so-called “Chicago blues sound” and were recorded by such blues artists as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bo Diddley, Koko Taylor, and many others. Some of Dixon’s songs went on to reach an international audience in the 1960s, when they were popularized by such British groups as the Rolling Stones, Cream, the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, and Led Zeppelin.

 
 


11/25/2011

Scientists Report Second Sighting of Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos


November 18, 2011

Scientists Report Second Sighting of Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos




Few scientists are betting against Einstein yet, but the phantom neutrinos of Opera are still eluding explanation.
Two months after scientists reported that they had clocked subatomic particles known as neutrinos going faster than the speed of light, to the astonishment and vocal disbelief of most of the world’s physicists, the same group of scientists, known as Opera, said on Friday that it had performed a second experiment that confirmed its first results and eliminated one possible explanation for how the experiment could have gone wrong.
But the group admitted that many questions remain. “This is not the end of the story,” said Antonio Ereditato of the University of Bern in Switzerland, the spokesman for the collaboration, explaining that physicists would not accept the result that neutrinos could go faster than light until other experiments had come up with the same conclusion. “We are convinced, but that is not enough in science,” he said.
Other physicists said they remained skeptical that the universe was about to be overturned.
The speed of light was established as the cosmic speed limit, at least for ordinary matter in ordinary space, in 1905 by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity (now known as special relativity), foreclosing the possibility of time travel into the past or of timely travel to other stars.
Neutrinos, though ghostly in many regards — they are able to traverse planets and walls of lead like light through a window, and to shape-shift from one of three varieties of the particle to another along the way — are part of the universe, and so there was no reason to expect that Einstein’s stricture should not apply to them as well.
But over the course of the last three years, in experiments designed to investigate this shape shifting, neutrinos produced at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and beamed underground to the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, an underground facility about 450 miles away, arrived about 58 billionths of a second sooner than would a light beam, according to Opera. The group is based at Gran Sasso, which is near L’Aquila; CERN is in Geneva.
When these results were presented to a meeting at CERN in September, after a prairie fire of blog rumors, they were greeted by fierce skepticism. Among the problems with the original experiment, scientists said, was that the neutrinos were produced in bursts 10,000 billionths of a second long — much bigger than the discrepancy in arrival time.
Last month CERN retooled so that the neutrinos could be produced in shorter bursts, only 3 billionths of a second long, making it easier to match neutrinos at Gran Sasso with neutrinos at CERN, and the experiment was briefly repeated. The neutrinos still arrived early, about 62 billionths of a second early, in good agreement with the original result and negating the possibility, the Opera team said, that the duration of the neutrino pulse had anything to do with the results.
The details of both the first and second round of experiments are contained in a paper posted on the Internet at http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897 and submitted to the Journal of High Energy Physics. In response to reports that some members of the Opera group had refused to sign a preliminary version of the paper in September, Dr. Ereditato said of the new paper, “They all signed.”
Physicists said the new paper had answered some of the questions about the experiment, but many remain: for example, about how the clocks were synchronized between Geneva and Gran Sasso, and how the distance between them was ascertained. “It does appear that they have done a good job,” said John Learned, a neutrino physicist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who was not involved in the experiment. But, he added, “If there is a deep systematic error in the calculation of expected time difference, this remains.”
Alvaro de Rujula, a CERN theorist, said there were two interpretations of the experiment. “One is that they have stumbled upon a revolutionary discovery; the other, on which I would place my bet, is that they are still making and not finding the very same error.”
In the meantime, Einstein sleeps peacefully.
Asked if he had seen any interesting theoretical explanations of how neutrinos could violate the speed of light among the papers that have been flooding the internet these past two months, Dr. Ereditato demurred. “That’s not our business,” he said. “A good experimentalist tries to be as cool as possible.”
Dr. Learned and Dr. de Rujula both said there were no convincing theories out there yet. “The theory papers are amusing in that it more and more points out how very much trouble this result will cause, if verified,” Dr. Learned said in an e-mail.
He added, “Fun!”


Source: NYT Space & Cosmos