Thru You Means Really World Music

You can watch and listen onThru You

“”ThruYOU is an album of seven original songs, each built from dozens of fragments of video clips of (mostly amateur) musicians, selected from among the seemingly endless footage of music lessons and private recitals archived on YouTube.

“”Music bloggers have praised Kutiman for effectively using YouTube as a musical instrument and striking a blow for freedom from corporatized pop music. The project, wrote Jon Newton on P2PNet, is “absolutely, 100 percent guaranteed to inspire artists around the world to produce art which has never been seen before and never could have been seen without the Internet.”” Virginia Heffernan, New York Times

Raphael Saadiq: 100 Yard Dash

Cool video, watch out at You Tube!

My Chemical Romance: Desolation Row

My Chemical Romance: Desolation Row

(Yes, you’re right, it’s cover of Bob Dylan’s song)

“To my ears, the song is pretty…meh”  Entertaiment Weekly

Connie Smith: Once A Day

Connie Smith: Once a Day

It’s been over 40 years since Smith suddenly topped the country charts with her plaintive, clean, powerful take on Bill Anderson’s Once a Day, but she made it clear this night that her cut-across-the-room voice and infectious timing have lost nothing along the way.” No Depression

Steve Martin, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka: The Crow

Steve Martin: The Crow

“I started (playing banjo) when I was 17,” Martin tells Billboard.com. “I know what my specialty is — playing songs I write, and if I’m asked to step outside that specialty, I can get a little nervous. It’s a dichotomy; on one hand I can play my own songs with anybody, but if I got into a really serious bluegrass crowd, I’d play a couple standards and retire.” Billboard

Bruce Springsteen: Life Itself

Bruce Springsteen: Life Itself

“Working On A Dream not only stands as an unmistakably Springsteen culmination – a progression from all that has come before – but also as a revelation that adds a fresh dimension to his legacy. And that fresh dimension is harmony, sweet harmony, the aural uplift of voices in unison, a complementary community, sometimes gospel, sometimes Beach Boys.” No Depression

Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue

Buddy Holly Live in New York with Peggy Sue 1958

Gary Osborne, lyricist for The War of the Worlds, agrees: “‘Peggy Sue’ is the most basic and simple of love songs and when ‘basic and simple’ works, it really works. The treatment is also beautifully stripped down. It sounds like three guys driving along the highway in a big old American car with the driver singing and his mate in the passenger seat playing guitar, while the drummer is sitting behind them, keeping time on the back of the driver’s seat. A classic!” The Independent

Kindred The Family Soul: House of Love

Kindred The Family Soul: House of Love

“Now this was a pleasant surprise. I didn’t have high hopes for the third album of this husband and wife duo, since their second CD In This Life Together was much more R&B oriented than their wonderful debut set Surrender to Love.” Soul Express

The Paschall Brothers

The Paschall Brothers on American Routes

The winners of the 2009 Independent Music Awards were announced in more than 50 categories. Paschall Brothers took the award for gospel. IMA website

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Aretha Franklin: (You make me feel like) a natural woman

Aretha Franklin TV-Special, Sweden, 1968

“The Queen of Soul will return the favor Tuesday when she performs on the steps of the Capitol to commemorate Obama’s inauguration.” USA Today