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Wow, it is Friday night.

Leon Bridges - Peaceful Place (2024)
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#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-09 09:11 PM | Reply

Brook Benton - Rainy Night in Georgia (Atlanta Version) (1970?)
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#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-09 09:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

NRBQ - Fergie's Prayer (1969)
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fwiw, NRBQ = New Rhythm and Blues Quintet

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-09 10:32 PM | Reply

Bert Jansch and John Renbourn (British mid-60s guitarists; Pentangle)

"East Wind":

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FYI, Jimmy Page early on acknowledged debts to the above.

John Fahey, "Desperate Man Blues":

youtu.be

Soothing as can be.

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-09 10:49 PM | Reply

Paul Bley and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, "Olhos de Gato":

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Soothing and haunting.

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-09 10:53 PM | Reply

"Musick hath charms to soothe a savage breast"

FFS.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-09 10:58 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Speaking of beasts, a poetic interlude:

WB Yeats, "The Second Coming":

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-09 11:05 PM | Reply

@#4 ... Pentangle ...

Wow, there's a blast from the past.

:)

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-09 11:06 PM | Reply

Blue, Red, and Grey - The Who

youtu.be

#9 | Posted by Karabekian at 2026-10-09 11:13 PM | Reply

Strawbs - Remembering; You And I (When We Were Young); Grace Darling (1975)
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Yeah, imo, they don't write songs like that any more ...

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-10 12:55 AM | Reply

Wally - What to Do (1974)
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"... All I need is music to bring the best in me ..."

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-10 01:30 AM | Reply

Sooth

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Smooth

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#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-10 10:14 AM | Reply

Billy Strings 10/10/26 Angel of the Winds Arena, Everett, WA

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#13 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-10 01:14 PM | Reply

(This Bird Has Flown)

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Persian Sisters, classical musicians

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-10 01:35 PM | Reply

youtu.be

Raised on Rock and Roll

#15 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-10-11 08:46 AM | Reply

Ali Farka Tour & Toumani Diabat - Debe live at Bozar
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#16 | Posted by morris at 2026-10-11 10:49 AM | Reply

Toumani Diabati Jarabi live 1989
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#17 | Posted by morris at 2026-10-11 10:53 AM | Reply

Lou reed - See that my grave is kept clean (full version)
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#18 | Posted by morris at 2026-10-11 10:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

18. Thanks. Have not seen and did not know.

#19 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-11 02:09 PM | Reply

Some nice blues guitar in the middle.

John Renbourn, "Forty-Eight":

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John Renbourn - Acoustic guitar
Terry Cox - Percussion, finger cymbals, African drums, and glockenspiel
Ray Warleigh - Flute

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-11 02:14 PM | Reply

The actual wording, in reality is not 'beast' as many mistakenly believe.

For your "education": The Full Quote: "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, / To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

William Congreve: The English playwright wrote the line in his 1697 play The Mourning Bride.

#21 | Posted by MSgt at 2026-10-11 03:46 PM | Reply

21. See 6 for spelling.

#22 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-11 03:55 PM | Reply

John Fahey, "Voice of the Turtle":

www.youtube.com

So soothing, it doesn't drive my sundowning wife crazy. But it could be because she's been hearing it for forty years.

#23 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-11 03:57 PM | Reply

Not at all soothing for most. One of my spawn saw them last night:

Deerhoof, live:

www.youtube.com

The report is that the drummer is the only one in league with Zach Hill from Death Grips.

Death Grips = Also not soothing.

#24 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-11 04:00 PM | Reply

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