I want to welcome Jordan to the blog lineup here at Radio Free Earth. Thanks for your post on the influence of jazz music on the civil rights movement. I think that is a great point. The Harlem renaissance and then jazz, the blues, r&b and rock'n'roll must have had a huge impact on the country, and paved the way for social change. I think that music has a power that way, which is one of the reasons to do it.

Bruce Springsteen once said something like, "When you hit the stage, you both have to imagine that what you're doing is not important at all and that it's the most important thing in the world." I think when you do that, both letting totally loose while doing something that's totally meaningful to you, it has to have an impact that reverberates far and wide. And what reverberates better than sound and music?

I recently was made aware of the sweet sound of alpacas humming.



For more about the variety of sounds that alpacas make, check out What Sounds Do Alpacas Make? here.

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Here's an interesting presentation of Crossover Music. Richard Thompson was asked ten years ago by Playboy what his top ten favorite songs of the last 1000 years were. Now he's performing them in concert.

The story is here from The Guardian.

"Josh and Jordy Get the Blues"



Jordan and I got a pretty bad case of the blues, so I pulled out my slide guitar for this program. After checking into Rob Stoner's "Hotel 1-2-3," we woke unexpectedly from the "Night Dream Blues." The "Steel Guitar Rag" provided some relief, but after setting out "Across the Borderline"(Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson) we found ourselves "Buried Alive in the Blues" by Nick Gravenites. We took another detour with my instrumental, "Lemurs and Chameleons" before accepting that the blues really are the only friend you can always count on with Steve Earle's "My Old Friend the Blues."

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