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| What you're about to read is a collection of pointers to some of the music I've discovered on the iTunes Music Store, music I like enough that I want to share it. If you're an iPod owner and an iTunes fan (and if you aren't, what are you doing here?), maybe you'll find something new. Click on any of the CD covers to bounce over to the store and sample a few tracks. And then maybe stop by my other blog for a few well chosen words (and maybe a random snark or two). | 
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Fri, 20 Jan 2006 |
| Sweet Emma and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band | |
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I think I first heard Dixieland Jazz when I was not quite seventeen and making my first pilgrimage to Disneyland. It's a natural kind of music for the House of Mouse: full of energy and good cheer. And loud; did I forget to mention loud? But of course, the Disneyfied version of anything is a pale shadow compared to the original. This is an original, recorded in 1964 when the titular Sweet Emma was 52 and had been performing for forty years. And like most things in New Orleans, it's better than you'll find anywhere else. |
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