Relaxing to some James Taylor right now.

I'm listening to The Essential Dave Brubeck CD right now, just picked it up today, mainly because a couple of you guys had talked about him some, so I thought I'd try this CD out.

After a few songs, I gotta say that groups like ELP and The Doors must have been influenced by Mr Brubeck because I'm hearing a lot of similarities in the structure of these songs. I don't know, that may sound odd, but I'm hearing it. Sounds very good so far.

Green Day's new version of "21 Guns" featuring the cast of American Idiot. I love it. It starts very gently, with a female vocalist and a neoclassical take with the instrumentation, including a beautiful string arrangement. Then it transitions into Billie Joe's vocals over the band, the familiar single, with backing/harmony vocals from the cast. Another powerful female vocalist then takes lead, and the culmination is a powerful chorus.

It's available at iTunes as a $1.29 single, but for now, you can listen free at http://greenday.com. The splash page automatically streams the whole song.

Nice version. I still need their newest album... and a lot of their older ones.

SoKo and CocoRosie

Looking through the 1,000's of albums we got from my grandma, found a Randy Meisner "One More Song" album, not bad stuff from the early 80's...

Gee. That makes me feel old.

Tangled up in Blue....Bob Dylan

ZZ Top....La Grange

Pretty Woman...Roy Orbison