[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/sneakin-sally.mp3|titles=Robert Palmer Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley]For his solo debut album in 1974, Robert Palmer was backed by The Meters (fea Allen Toussaint) and Lowell George of Little Feat. The same Robert Palmer who was “addicted to love” in 1985? Believe it or not.
Month: August 2009
Fluid: a must-have app for Mac users
Fluid is a great app for Mac users who rely heavily on web-based softwares like Google Docs, Basecamp, and Pandora. luid.app creates working applications out of these online tools (referred to as site-specific browsers) so that they can be launched from the Mac OSX dock, be kept in their own windows, and controled with Preferences similarly to how other regular applications can be.
The Bay Bridge scene from The Graduate
In the 1967 classic The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) drives his Alfa Romeo across the top level of the SF Bay Bridge, supposedly towards Berkeley; however, the top-level traffic goes to the San Francisco side, not Berkeley and the East Bay.
Ramsey Lewis’ Rocky Raccoon
[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/rocky-raccoon.mp3|titles=Rocky Raccoon — Ramsey Lewis] Rocky Raccoon is taken from a 1968 record by Ramsey Lewis called Mother Nature’s Son. The album is an incredible collection of lush, instrumental covers from the White Album (produced by Charles Stepney).
Norman Blake & Tony Rice, Blackberry Blossom (live)
[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/blackberry-blossom.mp3|titles=Blackberry Blossom — Blake & Rice] Norman Blake & Tony Rice, two of the finest flat picking guitarists in bluegrass, rip the traditional Blackberry Blossom a new one. Mark Shatz on bass. Live from the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA, 1989.