Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Finally, a rapper I can appreciate

Jay-Z.

...but of course, the AssPress has to belittle him by calling him a "Rock Star". That's a term that is HIGHLY overused today, and they know it. He is more correctly known as a "Rap Star" or even a "Hip-Hop Artist".

Plus, he has the HOTTEST wife going

 

Photo courtesy of Beyonce Knowles Star.

(heads for the cold shower, ends post because all the blood is in the wrong place).

Good Tunage

....here. George Strait, who is on a par with the very best. This is the freebie cut from his upcoming album, "Twang", due out in a couple of weeks.

Tunage note: If you are a person who depresses easily, don't listen to this song. If you've ever had a loved one leave you, this song expresses how you felt at the time like no other song or poetry could. If your relationship needs work to keep it alive, this song WILL motivate you to do that work.

H/T to Mountain Mike

Monday music

This is amazing. You'll probably get an earworm from Toto's "Africa", but that's ok.

What is amazing is that the song is sung by a large a capella chorus, "Perpetuum Jazzile", and they include some accompanying sound effects for the song that you've NEVER seen or heard before.

Of course, if you would like to get your blood moving a bit faster, here's an excellent rendition of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Excuse the exchange of the word "Live" for the word "die" in the final stanza and you'll be suitably charged up to strap on your sword, pick up your buckler and spear and start your day of battle.

Thanx for the linx, Commodore!

Enjoy!

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Question: what does a VERY talented group of stringed-instrument musicians do in their off-time?

They practice vocal sound effects, then they record the famous theme from the equally-famous Garlic Western movie.

And they play it straight.

Amazing. H/T to the OTHER Deputy/Major, Tim

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Stand down

That's an order. Stack arms, stand down, and take a music break.

Hint, this is as close as it comes to Honky Tonk Heaven.

Goodnight, you baad mutha####

RIP, Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008.

A light has just gone out. The father of "urban" and "cool" has left the music stage. Don't bother me with hip-hop or urban contemporary, the Man who invented Shaft invented Urban Cool, which started all of that. That was Mister Hayes.

I was at war then, and when I needed Cool, it was Isaac Hayes that I fired up on my cassette deck, or maybe on A-Farts, whose DJs also thought he defined Cool.

No, I don't happen to think that anyone ever defined it any better since, thank you very much. Actually, I think Cool has devolved down into another excuse for inhumanity and insanity, none of which is Isaac Hayes' doing.

When I get to where you are, Mister Hayes, playing that Heavenly harp, I just know that you will have managed to give that instrument a new sound, and I can't wait to hear it.

So long, bro. You helped me get through MY first war. I envy you being done with all of yours.