A digital commonplace for a Regular Guy called Charlie Pharis
Unwinding tonight with some sweet 70s soul, via Pandora’s Jackson 5 station.
Right now, The Four Tops are telling me there “Ain’t No Woman Like the One I’ve Got.” Just before that The Spinners said “It’s a Shame.” Earlier, Rose Royce was workin’ at the “Car Wash,” and The O’Jays warned me about “Back Stabbers” (“What they do?!?!”).
Good…no, great stuff!
In one of those laid-back jazz kind of moods tonight. Got all four volumes of the great Blue Note Blue Box set cued up on shuffle. From Miles Davis’s It Never Entered My Mind to Horace Silver’s Senor Blues to Thelonius Monk’s ‘Round Midnight…this is one of the best collections of classic jazz, especially for the novice jazz collector. It’s one I come back to time after time on nights just like this one!
Oh, what’ll I be listening to through the headphones on the sofa?
Unwinding tonight with Passion’s God of This City. At this very moment, Ms. Nockels is blowing the doors of Hosanna! (Kind of appropriate for Palm Sunday, eh?)
Good stuff!
Go lay down, Charlie…and get better, you old coot!
I’ve been really digging the Hillsong CD God He Reigns lately. One reviewer said it’s a great blend of the “classic” Hillsong stuff and the newer, younger, hipper United material. Whatever. All I know is it’s been leading me into the presence of God in a big, powerful way.
A couple of notes from this weekend…
4:00 a.m. is going to get here pretty early. See you later…
I’ve gotta tell ya…I’m a sucker for girl singers! And I discovered a new one yesterday on the way home from church!
Bob Edwards was interviewing Tift Merritt on his weekend radio show. She just sounded like loads of fun, and the snippets of her tunes grabbed me. So I’m now her newest fan, and courtesy of iTunes, I’m unwinding with Another Country, Tambourine, and Bramble Rose. Good stuff…
(Oh, did you notice she sings?)
Laid-back sounds of Jim Pearce after a long, rather stormy day. Along with the very smooth sounds of Pearce and his players, there’s the great title track, sung by Rene Marie. Talk about smooth!
OK, so I was one of the wimp pastors who canceled our services today. My buddy, Gary Lamb, told me on the phone last night he canceled Revolution’s services today because of his concerns with his setup crews being out and about, dark and early, in unknown conditions. My response was that I was concerned about some of our folks driving in perfect sunny weather, so I sure wasn’t willing to take chance on the possibility of icy roads!
Anyway, a pretty good day around the old Just Charlie hacienda…
That’s about how our Snowy Sunday went. How about yours?
Still got The Derailers on my mind, in my ears, and out my speakers! What else is in there, you ask? Well, you didn’t ask, but since I told the woman from the paper today that the main thing I like about blogging is that I don’t have to get anybody else’s permission to write what I think, I can put it down here if I want to! So there!
The best big brother I’ve ever had turned me on to The Derailers the other day. Seems he heard them on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion or somewhere. Good stuff. As their website says…
Hangdog honky-tonk at its best!
Pulled out one of my favorites of the HEAR Music collection, the Artist’s Choice series. Tonight’s Unwind? Music that matters to the lovely Mrs. Elvis Costello. Other stuff that’s on my mind tonight…