Blue Standard – A Good Thing
This CD does what it says on the tin and does it well. The proverbial tin says that this is a debut album which was recorded ‘live off the floor with no overdubs’ at Canterbury Music Company in Toronto. Twelve standards, some unfamiliar, chosen because Blue Standard felt inspired by takes of these songs done by famous names such as Nat King Cole and Chet Baker. Raoul Bhaneja is an actor who sings blues, as well as jazz and Jesse Whiteley, is well known on the Canadian music scene as he comes from a family of musicians involved in roots music, and he has performed with the likes of Clark Terry and Cleo Laine.(bebop spoken here)
Whitehorse – The Northern South Vol 2
The latest volume of Whitehorse’s Northern South, a collection of blues, soul and other music from the American South, must have been fun to play: the grooves are locked down, the percussion is smart and the rhythm section is as steady as a freight train. Melissa McClelland sings lead on a number of these tracks — she can work breathy or she can belt and the variety of her instrument is often beautiful. She knows the material, and the harmonies with Luke Doucet carry historically laden texts unusually well. Doucet’s guitar grind has a looping, “hound dog going after a rabbit” quality, especially in the first minute of “Baby, Scratch My Back.”(Exclaim!)
Good morning!
hello
Hiya!
I like the description for Whitehorse and look forward to hearing the album.
I was unsure about the first album up there because it had a digital release on November 9th but the CD is released tomorrow
I will check them out too. I do enjoy some blues from time to time.
Does anyone want a cup of tea? I’m about to put the kettle on
(I would offer coffee but we only have instant)
Thanks but I am drinking my pressed coffee right now.
oooooh, get you with ya fancy coffee
Haha. I don’t have one of those fancy coffee machines. A simple grinder and a simple press. Works for me.
Yeah, it’s Garfield that depends on sciencey-tech to produce those wonderful, fast-dissolving crystals. You use natural coffee beans, mechanically ground, soaked in b’iled water.
Heh heh heh…
I have coffee bags if I want a coffee, I just didn’t want to share
Me, it’s really fine-ground black beans put through a Melitta type cone and filter. Speaking of which…
garf: SELFISH!
yup
Haha!
Oddly I just put my kettle on as well!
Whitehorse and Sarah McLachlan; yes please:)
Sorry I am even later than usual.
My father in law hit an elk last night; truck is done, humans are ok thanks to air bags but the elk had to suffer until an RCMP officer was able to come and end its life.
The trip to Vancouver for my eye specialist has been cancelled so I have been on the phone changing several plans.
Yikes! Glad the human is okay but poor elk. 🙁 And poor truck too.
Is the trip cancellation connected to the accident? Sorry for all the change of plans. Enjoy your tea. I think I will have some now.
Being a non driver the trip involved other drivers including my father in law. We added in other things like him going to the motorcycle show and seeing relatives oct but that has all been cancelled as well.
So, about this listening party. Now that I will be home on the weekend we could change our arrangements if it works better for others.
Also, I have not communicated with STW yet regarding them joining us or confirming that us inviting others through social media is ok. Being the non techie that I am I am struggling with the wording. Please help!
Are these facts correct?
We will listening through Discord
We are keeping the SoundCloud link private
We will be able to collect emails if a person chooses to comment on our blog but if they are just listening then all we can is ask.
Gotcha on the trip.
The listening party facts are not clear in my mind yet…Garf?
OK, will await Garf for tech answers.
Thoughts on keeping the date and time or changing it?
I am fine with either but the weekend might work better.
We will listening through Discord
Yes
We are keeping the SoundCloud link private
Yes
We will be able to collect emails if a person chooses to comment on our blog but if they are just listening then all we can is ask.
Discord is also a chat client so I was thinking that we would hold our conversation about the album in the OurBasement section while Wild Raccoon* streamed the album, We would ask for email addresses before we start the stream and kick out those that choose not to share.
I have a feeling it might just be the 3 of us but we can see
*Wild Raccoon is the name of our servers Bot (think Alexa or Siri with only text)
Thanks @GarfieldUK
I will copy your details and include them in the email to STW this afternoon.
Thoughts on date and or time change?
I am happy with any date and time, it might be worth giving STW some options
True, they would probably appreciate options.
I think we will end up with more listeners than us if we share the invite with the FB R3 group as well as our own networks.
I hope we can get a few more.
I am currently composting the email to STW. I am going to suggest our predetermined time or anytime this Saturday or Sunday. Does that suit you two?
Sounds good to me. I have a dinner to go to Saturday evening, but the afternoon is fine.
got it.
how is your dance card looking garf?
I’m fine with any time
OK, I sent the email off.
Time crunch here so hopefully I get a quick response.
I this goes well we might be able to make it a regular thing
The Jerry Cans emailed back right away that they would let me know later. Now I am waiting to see if I can go tonight or not.
fingers crossed
Whoa, fast response.
Chatting now …
Jerry Cans are great live! Saw them two years ago at Kaslo Jazz … two performances because they did a “workshop tent” one as well.
Have a blast @darbar
Tomorrow is Tylers preferred time and he is completely on board with the additional invites.
He gave me his cell to text and remind him to join us. No guarantee but he will try.
Let the inviting begin!!!
awesome!
Thinking we should send out invites like now.
So, who is going to post which invite?
I know it is getting late for you @GarfieldUK but can you make us a pretty invite then we can each use it?
give me 20minutes
sweet! thanks:)
do i have to sign up for Discord now too?
not right now but it would be a good idea to do it soon
Great job morgana!
Phew! Too much time in front of the screen today but I am excited it is coming together.
I tried the Discord link from the other days post @garfieldUK but got a Poop emoji ….
so remind me, was it 3:30pm PT 6:30pm ET?
@Morgana, I am about to put together a pdf flier for the streaming event but I am willing to walk you through the registration process tomorrow if that is OK with you?
3:15 PST, 5:15CST and 6:15EST
yes, tomorrow is good for the tutorial.
thank you
how did you make out with crafting an invite @garfieldUK?
i think i am a little excited/impatient. sorry!
that’s OK, it took a little longer than I expected but here it is, feel free to make comments or check with Tyler
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bZmyPVBuvqkg0ObfSkXVeGWRmL4bu7Xs/view?usp=sharing
@garfieldUK That looks stellar!
morganajr is sampling the code now and is very excited about the bot;) she is a fan of WR for sure.
Shall I go ahead and post on FB R3 group page ….
sure, this is your baby, you are in charge, I am your staff in this project
Ha, you are funny! Team project for sure. I’ll give the posting thing a try.
I want to have the WR bot be a little more interactive, like have chats with people and answering some questions, but I am still learning.
I should also transfer him to his own computer, he is running on this computer at the moment
@garfieldUK
careful, those guys have opposable thumbs and could take over!
Oddly (sarcasm intended) I can get your PDF to upload but when I try to attach it to a Facebook post it is not clickable as in it is listed as a file but in light grey font
I’m not worried, as soon as they find out that they can’t eat browser cookies they soon lose interest and wander off
Arg, see the mess I just left on the R3 FB group …
I don’t know if you can post pdf’s to facebook in the same way you can an image
Should I print, scan, save as a photo then post?
I am loosing it here. My printer will only print in b&w>:/
give me 2 seconds
command click on the image and save it
Wow, that was so much easier.
What do you need two seconds for?
the 2 seconds was to upload and post the image
I do believe you have held my hand through the whole process successfully.
Thank you and sleep well.
does that mean I can stop looking at totoro* stuff on ebay and go to sleep
*ask ABC
Good job team!