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Well, I tend to favor music and I can sing to, that fits my voice range, but also because I like the certain song. My favorite artists tend to be my favorite because they sing certain songs that I can relate to ones that I love the meaning and message that they are trying to send out. My favorite artists range from Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Elton John, Garth Brooks, Carrie Underwood, Kenney Chesney, Rihanna, to Mariah Carey. Like I said earlier what draws me to these artists are mainly there lyrics.

Kenney Chesney has a song called “Who’d You Be Today.” He had lost a friend that died at a very young age. In the song he sings about how he wonders what his friend would be like today would they have gotten married and started a family. “It ain’t fair how you died so young like a story that had just begun but death tore the pages all away.” My best friend died in a car accident when we were 14 years old. When this song first came I out I cried and cried and cried because it is truly how I feel about her death.

Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Carrie Underwood, and Sara Evans all have songs about love. Almost every girl going through high school and their late teen years and early twenties have all been in relationships and had their heart broken. I am currently in a relationship and hoping that it will be my last relationship. Sara Evans has a song “I Could Not Ask For More.” “Looking in your eyes seeing all I need, everything you are is everything to me….I’ve got all I’ve waited for, and I could not ask for more. I was just telling my boyfriend the other day that Rihanna and Neyo’s song “Hate How Much I Love You,” reminds me of our relationship. I can be mad at him one second and the next second totally forget why I was mad at him in the first place.

Micah Walk, yes this is probably a name you have never heard before, unless you are from Springfield, IL or the surrounding areas. This many is simply amazing and I hate to try to compare his music to another, because he really does have a unique and powerful sound.  If I had to put his name next to another more popular artist, I suppose I would have to compare his sound to Dave Mathews, Ryan Adams or the likes of these folks. Micah brings an amazing strength to his music, even on a sad song, I have never seen another live performer that can put any audience in the palm of his hand and make them feel the emotions he is feeling in each song he delivers.

There is something magical about his music and I think that this is something that everybody should have the chance to experience.  His music is low and slow and very emotional, far from emo though, trust me.  I have added a few tracks below for  your listening pleasure, these same tracks are readily available on his own site so make sure to visit him there as well.

If you are looking for a fast and furious noise ridden musical experience you will not find it here.  Micah started off playing in local coffee shops and at many open mic’s in the Springfield area and his music reflects the intimate and small personal venues he had become accustomed to playing.  The somber and some times even flat out sad songs he writes may be a downer to some, but much like the blues that I love so much, it seems to be very uplifting to me.

Micah Walk has created a new band and is starting to move to larger venues than ever, I for one wish him the best of success and have for some time wondered why this guy has not got a major record deal, because he truly deserves one.

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Make sure to visit him on his own website here : Micah Walk

Here is a sample track of Micah Walk in action and you can find more like this by visiting his website above!

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So I was a work and I brought up good old Google News and found an article by Los Angeles Times talking about how Adam Lambert impressed the remaining members of the band queen after the finale performance this last wednesday night. Though they are not sure they are quiet ready to make him the new lead singer, they did say they would be very interested in working with him in the future.

Adam Lambert was by far the best performer this year and I think he made it very clear in the very early rounds, that he was in a league all of his own. The other performers were great don’t get me wrong however Adam was pretty much untouchable every night from the start of the competition straight up to the last night. I still have no idea how it ended up that Chris Allen took the idol crown for season 8.

Chris Allen is talented and personally the whole acoustic guitar beach guy all laid back and mellow is right up my alley, but there is just no denying that the voters got it wrong yet again this year. 07- David Archuleta should have won over David Cook, and this year the crown should have went to Adam.

I am sure not being the winner will in no way hurt a person like Adam he has so much self confidence and talent (the man was born to perform)! So if you have not heard of the man be sure to check out some of his performances, even if you are not an American Idol fan. I am sure he will not disappoint. One of my person favorites besides the finale night was his version of  “ring of fire” by the late and great Johnny Cash. Also Mad World, there is nothing that this kid sang that sounded bad and I am sure that he will go far so two thumbs up high for Adam in season 8

1. TV on the Radio- Dear science
2. Bob Dylan- Tell Tale Signs- The Bootleg (Series Vol.
3. Lil Wayne- The Carter III
4. My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges
5. John Mellencamp- Life, Death, Love and Freedom
6. Santogold- Santogold
7. Coldplay- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
8. Beck- Modern Guilt
9. Metallica- Death Magnetic
10. Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
11. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
12. Guns n’ Roses- Chinese Democracy
13. Blitzen Trapper- Furr
14. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals- Cardinalogy
15. The Black Keys- Attack and Release
16. Randy Newman- Harps and Angels
17. B.B. King- One Kind Favor
18. Lucinda Williams- Little Honey
19. Erykah Badu- New Amerykah: Part 1
20. King of Leon- Only by the Night
21. Kaiser Cheifs- Off With Their Heads
22. Jackson Browne- Time the Conqueror
23. Conor Oberst- Conor Oberst
24. Girl Talk- Feed the Animals
25. The Magnetic Fields- Distortion
26. Mudcrutch- Mudcrutch
27. Brian Wilson- The Luck Old Sun
28. The Knux- Remind Me in Three Days….
29. Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
30. Duffy- Rockferry
31. MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
32. Jamey Johnson- The Lonesome Song
33. Ne-Yo- Year of the Gentleman
34. Stephen Malkmus- Real Emotional Trash
35. Nick Cave and Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
36. The Hold Steady- Stay Positive
37. Nine Inch Nails- The Slip
38. Ra Ra Riot- The Rhumb Line
39. Taylor Swift- Fearless
40. Jonas Brothers- A Little Bit Longer
41. AC/DC- Black Ice
42. David Bryne and Brian Eno- Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
43. Nas- Untitled
44. The Raconteurs- Consolers of the Lonely
45. Be Your Own Pet- Get Awkward
46. The Academy Is…- Fats Times at Barrington High
47. Of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping
48. Raphael Saadig- The Way I See It
49. Hot Chip- Made in the Dark

50.No Age- Nouns

Musiblog.info has brought this list to you from Rolling Stone magazine.  You may have already read it there, but go ahead and check it out here on the Reissues of the year list!

1. Dennis Wilson- Pacific Ocean Blue
The most handsome Beach Boy was also, in 1977, the most daring. Denis Wilson’s only official solo album was the biggest any member of the group, and is still the best: 12 songs of gripping need and tortured beauty, sung in craggy, soulful voice by a surfer dreamboat for whom the California dream was real, but not enough. Pacific Ocean Blue is Dennis’ version of his brother Brian’s triumph, Pet Sounds- an Intensely personal masterpiece0 while the session material from Dennis’ planned second album, Bambu, is his version of Brian’s SMiLE: a promise aborted and, with his death in 1983, forever unfulfilled.

2. Hank Williams- The Unreleased Recordings
It is an unimaginable thrill today: the greatest singer in country music crooning to you over your oatmeal. But in 1951, Hank Williams and his band the Drifting Cowboys were on the radio every morning at 7:15 a.m., Touting Mother’s Best Flour and rolling out an astonishing array of tunes his own songs, old-time spirituals and cover of Ernest Tubbs and Roy Acuff. On this three- CD set, Williams’ Voice is crisp and virile, and there is a kitchen-table immediacy to the performances, as if he’s right there sharing a cup of coffee.

3. Various Artist- Let Me Be Your Sidetrack: The Influence of Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers, the Singing Brakeman (1897-1933), was America’s first singer-songwriter of the recording era, His hillbilly tales, yodels and love stories- such as “T for Texas,” “Mule Skinner Blues” and “Miss the Mississippi in You”- hace been the bedrock repertoire of generations of country, folk and blues singers. Released on the 75th anniversary of his death, this six-CD set charts the force of that influence through the rest of the centurym in covers by every major voice in country as well as Pete Seeger Rick Nelson, Bono and arguably Rodgers’ biggest fan, Bob Dylan.

4. U2- Boy
U2’s near-perfect 1980 debut album- a precociously mature sunburst of spiritual optimism and the Edge’s minimalist church-ball guitar- becomes an essential history lesson with a second CD of pre-LP singles and hell bent live recordings showing the Irish quartet’s learning curve out of garage land. The club-on-fire versions of “Boy-Girl” and “11o’clock Tick Tock”, from the Marquee in London, are thrilling preview if how U2 would soon slay America. Alco recommended: the two-CD reissue of 1981’s October, a flawed follow-up made fuller with concert and BBC performances of a strong, united band on its way to 1983’s War.

5. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians- Luminous Groove
The mid-Eighties electrics albums of England’s most enduring psychedelic son- the studio LPs Fegmania and Element of Light and the live blast Gotta Let This Hen Out- finally get the box set they deserve, along with extra tracks and a bonus double CD or related trips wryly titled Bad Case of History. In fact, Robyn Hitchcock and his Egyptians ( a slimmed-down version on his earlier band the Soft Boys) are in constant forward motion on theis five-disc collection, combining the fifth-dimension wonder of Syd Barrett and the amplified vigor of the ’66 Bob Dylan.

6. Various Artist- Boogie Woggie and Blues Piano
Boogie-woogie piano was the hip-hop of its day- a Chicago-born spin on the blues, charged with the fast syncopation of black urban life. Some of the tracks on this three-disc set come in tuxedos: Lionel Hampton and Benny Carter lead full bands (a young Nat “King” Cole rolls wild on Hampton’s “Central Avenue Breakdown”). But many of these 1936-41 recordings are basically fisticuffs-with-ivories by original masters of the form such as Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Jimmy Yancey and Cripple Clarence Lofton, who’s “Strut That Thing” sounds like the granddad of Ray Charles’ “Mess Around.”

7. Nina Simone- To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
The former Eunice Kathleen Waymon was the first R&B diva: a protean singer, equally gifted in jazz, folk and show tunes, who challenged racial injustice (“Mississippi Goddam”) and laid her melancholy on the table (“My Man’s Gone Now”) with the same deep range and sensual vibrato. This set is the perfect entrance into her rich discopraghy, covering multiple labels with space for her transforming covers of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and Leonard Cohen, as well as her holy-warrior medley of George Harrison’s “my Sweet Lord” and the poem “Today Is a Killer” – from a 1971 show ar Fort Dix.

8. Various artist- The Jerry Ragovoy Atroy: Time is on My Side, 1953-2003
The timeline covers Henry Ragovoy’s half-century, as a producer, writer and arranger, in the fine print of classic R&B and soul records beginning with a 1953 doo-woop single by the Castelles, But most of these tracks were cut in the early and mid-Sixties, when Ragovoy made magic daily with mighty voices such as Howard Tate(“You’re Lookin’ Good”), Garnet Mimms (“Cry Baby”), Miriam Makeba (“Pata Pata”), Dusty Springfield (“what’s It Gonna Be”), and Lorraine Ellison ( the Ever-majestic “Stay With Me”). Ragovoy didn’t sing a not on these sides, but these are hiss greatest hits all the same.

9. Rodriguez- Cold Fact
This remarkable artifact of Michigan hippie soul by singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez- a lost classic originally issued in 1970- is what Bob Dylan’s mid-Sixites electric records might have sounded like if he’d made them in Detriot at the dawn of funk. Rodriguez’s strident acoustic strumming and period-arguments lyrics (“Curicify Your Mind”, “Rich Folkes Hoax”) are coated in brittle-fuzz guitars, while Rodriguez vocally recalls a young Cat Stevens- atop the Afro-acid strut of early Funkadelic. Ironically, some years after it bombed in the United States, Cold Fact became a hit- in South America. Now it finally gets another chance here.

10. Augustus Pablo- The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo: The Rocker Story
For the Jamaican producer, composer and keyboard player Augustus Pablo, reggae was not a music. It was a sacrament. Pablo, a devout Rastafarian, pursued the black heart and holy ecstasy of Jamaican rhythm and vocal soul in records he made not only hinder his own name (“East of the River Nile”, “King David’s Melody”) but for great voices like Jacob Miller, the Heptones and Hugh Mundell. These four CDs (plus a DVD) go deep with a wise emphasis on Pablo’s dub sorcery and his fascination with the plastic-church-organ sound of melodic a.

Hello all I am new here but by no means am I new to music. I have always loved music and probably always will. I think of music as not a living breathing creature but very similar. Music, well I should say good music, in my mind would be described with humanistic descriptions for example: I believe it has a pulse a set rhyme that will continue through the piece, now that may speed up or it may slow down, maybe a bit of both but a beat none the less that will carry the song through to the end. I believe that good music is not only about the musical instruments itself but also the words the accents the little quirks or hell yeahs in each song that make them original.

You can have great words but if the beat sucks chances are not a lot of people will like it. Just like people in many ways, average will get you nowhere. Unless you can stand out from the crowd whether it is by being catchy,  absurd, having clever words, or clever beats you just won’t stand out. One of these qualities may get your song hear but if you want to be remembered or covered or eternal then you must have a combination of those things, As I get older I can’t figure out if music is just going into a slump or maybe I just don’t hear the variety that I used to to it just seems like all there is today is covers. I know there are a lot of good, no great songs of old, but come on people. You can’t tell me that there are no original thoughts out there anymore. I will admit I like more than my fair share of music that most the world would turn there noses up at but all this whiny stuff and the covers aren’t  even changed up into “remixes” anymore they are done exactly the same but by someone else.

I know if the music of today was not in high demand and people were not buying it then it would not be being produced. So maybe instead of being upset with the what things are going with music I should be asking what is wrong with people today. Originality is the best quality to music and humans alike do not be a sell out, do not fit the mold, do not be afraid to walk your own path and even though you may walk alone sometime at least you are being you. Musicians with their music and people with there lives need to listen in.

Well at least a partial list is out now for which bands will be at Bonaroo, you can check it out at Bonnaroo.com. So far there looks to be about equal amounts of bands I know and ones I don’t know by name but there is always the chance I know there music. I am going to try and go this year, I have never before been to a festival and it is something that I have always wanted to do, so cross your fingers for me and wish me goodluck! Anyway I thnk that someone looking to expand there musical taste should definatley check out a festival. Bonaroo is a bit pricey nut there are plenty out there that are not as long or as expensive. Bonaroo is a four day festival JUne 11th -14th in  Manchester, Tennessee. Some of the highlights are: Phish, NIN, Elvis Costello, Beastie Boys, Al Green, Bella Fleck, Moe, and many many more. So hope to see you there and if not think about another this year. Festivals are great for see something new with stuff you already like.