Carole King at Obama’s Inauguration and on Morning Joe

CaroleKing.com has posted some excellent pictures of Carole’s experiences during the week of the Inauguration of Barack Obama.
The morning after the inauguration, she appeared as a guest on “Morning Joe”. Well I’ve been trying to find a way to embed MSNBC’s video of her segment forever and it’s apparently impossible.
So, go here to watch Carole [...]

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Carly Simon sings I’ve Got To Have You at Borgata

Now and Forever has posted an MP3 of Carly Simon and her band performing the Kris Kristofferson song “I’ve Got to Have You” from this past Saturday’s show at The Borgata in Atlantic City.
She originally released the song on her Anticipation album from 1971. I love how she sings it, and the electric guitar (possibly [...]

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Bob Dylan on Joni Mitchell: Awww, Joni, man!

In the current issue of the British music magazine Uncut, various musicians talk about working with Bob Dylan. Guitarist Robben Ford, who has toured with Joni Mitchell, talked about the first time he worked with Dylan for the 1990 release Under the Red Sky, and their conversation about Joni:
I had met Dylan a couple of [...]

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Go Get It: Covers

In case it wasn’t clear from previous posts: James Taylor’s newest album was released today. Covers is out. Stop internet surfing and go buy it!

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Newman featured in Photo of the Day

Photographer Dino Perrucci’s Photo of the Day blog spotlights Randy Newman with George Porter, Jr. and Terrance Blanchard in rehearsal for tonight’s New Orleans All Star Jam-balaya at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colorado.

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Loggins promotes How About Now

Kenny Loggins’ newest release How About Now was released exclusively in all 1,449 Target Stores on February 27 for $9.99. KennyLoggins.com has sound clips of all twelve tracks.
1. A Year’s Worth of Distance
2. A Love Song
3. I’ll Remember Your Name
4. How About Now
5. I Don’t Want to Hate You Anymore
6. That’s When I Find You
7. [...]

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Happy Birthday George Harrison

On February 25, fans of George Harrison and The Beatles gathered at Tower Records in Hollywood, California, to celebrate Harrison’s birthday. He would have been 64 years old.

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Buffett live with country stars April 3

On April 3, Live at Texas Stadium will be released containing concert recordings of Jimmy Buffett, George Strait and Alan Jackson from their 2004 concert event.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Five O’Clock Somewhere (Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett)
2. Designated Drinker (Alan Jackson with George Strait)
3. Texas Women (Alan Jackson)
4. Seven Bridges Road (Alan Jackson)
5. [...]

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Morrison receives Oscar Wilde

BBC News reports on Van Morrison receiving the Oscar Wilde Award at the Wiltshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles yesterday.
Full article
(Thanks to Bridget for the link.)

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Newman to give exclusive ASCAP interview, while Words still make news

Randy Newman will be a special guest at the ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 19.
Meanwhile, Newman’s new song “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country” is still causing such a stir across the Internet that Bloomberg.com and the Chicago Tribune blog had to [...]

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