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Mississippi State University Libraries : The Sheet Music Collection
PDFs of over 5,000 pieces of sheet music, mainly from the early 20th century.
Dallas - DC9 At Night - Echoes And Reverberations: The Ghosts Of The Longhorn Ballroom
Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, the Sex Pistols -- they all played the Longhorn.
Bounded Rationality: Some Thoughts on Shifting
An interesting essay by Jeff Shaw, who is learning to play violin, on how and why a violinist shifts finger positions.
macosxhints.com - A 'perfect' iTunes equalizer setting
Scroll down to "Wrong approach for audiophiles" to find a subtractive-filtering approach to the same effect: "Equalizers in both the analog and digital realm do subtractive filtering far better than additive filtering. When pulling the EQ down you are not creating the additive comb-filtering necessary to boost frequencies that do not already exist, so using this kind of approach is leaves more of the original audio intact and does not add as many artifacts to the signal."
A 'perfect' iTunes equalizer setting @ AMERICAN DIGEST
It is pretty amazing.
Hello Vegetables: Afraid And Shy, I Let My Chance Go By
"This mighty titan of a country song was written by two people who have passed on in the last couple years -- Cindy Walker (who also wrote 'Sugar Moon' with Bob Wills) and Eddy Arnold. Arnold and Jerry Vale both charted with it in 1956, but when Ray Charles covered it in 1962, people wept and threw money at their local record-store clerk."
David Cook Wins American Idol (Wizbang)
Tulsa boy makes good.
The Web's Resources for The Comedian Harmonists: Lyrics of their songs
Lyrics for the late 1920s- early 1930s close-harmony men's sextet.
Destiny-Land: Devo censorship? Lyric changes by MTV and Disney
MTV doesn't like the last word of the title of Devo's signature tune, and Disney completely rewrote their lyrics for a kiddie band called Devo 2.0
Being James Brown : Rolling Stone
Behind the scenes with the Hardest Working Man in Show Business: "When James Brown enters the recording studio, the recording studio becomes a stage. It is not merely that attention quickens in any room this human being inhabits. The phenomenon is more akin to a kind of grade-school physics experiment: Lines of force are suddenly visible in the air, rearranged, oriented. The band, the hangers-on, the very oxygen, every trace particle is charged in its relation to the gravitational field of James Brown." From a James Brown improvisation: "Shake your boo-tay. Shake you boo-boo-boo-boo-tay. Plenty tuchis. Plenty tuchis. Mucho. Mucho grande. Shake your big booty. Mucho grande. Big booty. Cool-a. TUCHIS!" (Via, indirectly, this Roadside America item about the James Brown statue in Augusta, Ga.)
