Neekerbreeker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Neekerbreeker@qoto.org

I've been organizing my #music playlists and started noticing many songs that mention #california in title or lyrics. (Tom Petty has quite a few.)

I looked around online and found several hundred songs that fall into this category! I didn't try to compare w/other states but I suspect CA may have one of the highest mention rates.

Anyway, here's a favorite.

Wilco - California Stars (Live at Farm Aid, 1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5-TglwOhR4

😩 When you have a really bad night with a migraine and take a PTO day from work...then feel guilty about resting, so you do laundry and clean your house 🧺 🧹

(With respect to Grandpa, who actually did work in a coal mine, and to Grandma, who did this every day) #music

Lee Dorsey - Working In a Coal Mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVmNJzM6LB8

#music #folk #history #ballad
Anyone else like songs that tell a story?

Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer - Clyde Waters

https://youtu.be/Bx8MHhDso3E

From their 2013 album "Child Ballads," these are historical English and Scottish ballads catalogued by Francis James Child in the late 1800s.

This one is a sad love story, and they're pretty much all about love, betrayal, family, life and death. The consistent themes of human nature!

I've been catching up on @stancarey's sweary blog Strong Language (https://stronglang.wordpress.com/) and I have a belated offering for the May 4, 2021 #music-related post.

"Nashville" by the Old 97s uses profanity beautifully. This song helped me convince a friend who was trying to stop swearing to rethink his goals 😜

"Well I married Caroline
Back in May of '99
It was fucked up at the time
But I figured we'd keep trying"

Those are strong lyrics. Changing an f-bomb; e.g., "It was messed up at the time..." just doesn't evoke the same level of anguish.

Old 97s - Nashville (2014, Most Messed Up)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSrPNh7isXE

#language

#Music for a chilly morning in southern California 🎶🌅

Mediaeval Baebes - Blow, Northern Wind

I love that they're singing in Middle English 😲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2X3JP8aINo

Lyrics (with modern translation) are at the YouTube link. According to Heather Teysko of the Renaissance English Podcast this is one of the oldest known songs in English with lyrics dating to about 1200 (https://www.englandcast.com/2014/12/old-music-monday-blow-northern-wynd/).

#language #history