tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57370324881483602102024-03-07T14:11:22.581-04:00Gold Coast BluenoteGet your Mojo workin'.Paco Malohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761446861100318921noreply@blogger.comBlogger446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-25744699854469944862021-01-20T23:33:00.001-04:002021-01-20T23:33:48.574-04:00Love is Gonna Cure You<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2UAsjOgstQE/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/2UAsjOgstQE" frameborder="0"></iframe>Balujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131862187186922463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-81222044352169950212020-10-04T21:31:00.001-04:002020-10-04T21:31:38.543-04:00You Search Until<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jrFb22bQsmg" width="459"></iframe>Balujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131862187186922463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-65440880446376551792020-03-28T18:01:00.001-04:002020-03-28T18:01:01.681-04:00This Web of Fear<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AwDe7F7c9LY" width="459"></iframe>Balujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131862187186922463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-71838868531826428032016-02-21T21:28:00.000-04:002016-02-21T21:28:38.970-04:00With LoveJust wanted to stop by to share the link to my latest release, Baluja XII: With Love. The first song was written and recorded back in July 2015, shortly after Jesuit's Class of '75 Forty Year Reunion. Paco Malo, I know you were there in spirit, and I also know that you would have been able to relate to Men For Others...hell, you epitomized that concept.<br />
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Gold Coast Bluenote was founded in 2005, by Jim Kearney (aka, Paco Malo). It was a labor of love that he took on to share his knowledge and express his feelings about the music, the movies, the art, and the literature that shaped his life. There are over 500 entries in this blog, and each contains Jim's unique insights and observations about a host of different subjects. <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today would have been Jim's 57th birthday. </span>I am honored to be able to keep GCB up and running, and accessible to all who pass through to research, review, and remember the topics he covered. Please feel free to browse through his posts, commenting and sharing on any of them that has a special meaning in your life.Balujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131862187186922463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-48188921147881905092014-07-12T18:08:00.000-04:002014-07-12T22:29:27.127-04:00Great Music, Great Friends <i>The other night, I received a rather serendipitous email from a close friend of Jim's. It tells the story behind a Gold Coast Bluenote post that dates back to 2005. I thought it would nice to share the story as a post on it's own, complete with links to the original post, as well as to the music of Alison Krauss, who's beautiful voice inspired it.</i><br />
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<p>It's funny how our lives weave together disparate elements, and make them inseparable. I was listening to some tunes last night. The music got me thinking about Jim, and GCB, and that in turn made me think of you.<br />
</p><p>Here's the back story behind an old post on GCB:(<a href="http://goldcoastbluenote.blogspot.com/2006/12/all-my-answers-turned-out-to-be.html">http://goldcoastbluenote.blogspot.com/2006/12/all-my-answers-turned-out-to-be.html</a>). Alison Krauss and Union Station were scheduled to play Lakeland in Dec 2005. I wanted Jim to go see them, and to cover the concert for GCB.<br />
</p><p>Why? Union Station is the tightest band I have ever seen. Every member is a master musician. Some bands sound great on an album, but just so-so live. Union Station delivers the goods live, every time. Alison Krauss was then (is still) one of the best singers in the world. And she also has the instrumental chops to play with Union Station. Jim had never seen them; I wanted to fix that.<br />
</p><p>I knew Jim was a bit tight on funds, so I bought him a ticket. As we exchanged emails, it dawned on me that he had no way to get from Tampa to Lakeland and back. In for a dime, in for a dollar. I bought another concert ticket, and a plane ticket, and arranged to fly in from NC so that Jim and I could see the show together. One of the best nights of my life, by the way.<br />
</p><p>As Jim put it <blockquote>First timers think they are just going to a concert; but after they listen to these musician’s musicians, they leave the show, just having found that Yahweh cuts us sinners a break now and again.</blockquote></p><p>Digging around on youtube I found a great concert recording of AK/US. It's about three years before the show we went to, but has a quite a bit of overlap with the show we attended. I saw this 2002 tour in Durham NC, and it made me a fan for life. Sometime when you have an hour or so, read Jim's post, open a cold one, and give this a spin: <a href="http://youtu.be/HKgTra0QldE">http://youtu.be/HKgTra0QldE</a><br />
</p><p>Just one thing though. The concert Jim and I went to had a different encore, as mentioned on GCB. It gave me chills. Here it is, as performed on the Leno Show:<br />
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</div>First, before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spector">Phil Spector</a> mono trip to <i>Paradise</i>, a personal favorite: <b>The Shangra-Las</b> <i>The Train from Kansas City</i>. With easy chords and adaptable lyrics I did a personal rewrite for acoustic guitar every time I play it -- depending on a special city of the lady the song was addressed to. I even included a spoken-over slowing and speeding that train up with a choppy D chord. I played <i>Train from Kansas City</i> every chance I got.<br />
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For my money, lead singer Betty Weiss (front right) is the hot, hot, hot -- sexier to me than my imagination can muster.<br />
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As you may have imagined, "Paco Malo" was a pen name. I want to say a few words about the man I knew as "Jim".<br />
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We met in high school, and were friends for more than forty years. Jim was a gentleman and a scholar. He held a PhD from Johns Hopkins, and a JD from U of Maryland Law School. He loved to laugh, and did so in spite of a life too often touched by pain. He was a compassionate and generous soul. Jim was that guy who really would have given you the shirt off his back.<br />
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And he loved music, man did he love music. The GCB blog was his way to share that love and his wide-ranging knowledge of all things musical. Jim loved the community of blogging, the back and forth of comments, the connection with his readers. On his behalf I say to every reader of this blog, thank you. <br />
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For me this post completes a circle. Back in the day when blogs were a new thing I ran a blog, now long shuttered. Jim was fascinated, and had the idea to contribute guest postings, always about music. After a bit of that, he decided to go solo, and Gold Coast Bluenote was born.<br />
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Over the years Jim and I shared many a musical discovery. The last note I sent him contained links to a couple of performances I think he would have enjoyed. I don't know whether he got the chance to watch them. I will post them here, for you his readers, his friends.<br />
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The first is a bluegrass cover of "Wild Horses" by Old and In The Way. Jim was huge Stones fan, and he appreciated good bluegrass. The second performance features the superb Ana Vidovic. Jim never could resist a guitar.<br />
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I hope you enjoyed those, Jim. Ave atque vale, my friend.<br />
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One more thing. One of Jim's musical collaborators is going to try his hand at running GCB. That's a tall order, but I think Paco would have been pleased. <br />
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Paco Malohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761446861100318921noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-73757762908167123882014-05-18T11:21:00.001-04:002014-05-18T11:21:49.332-04:00Steve Earle, "This City" from "Treme" (2010)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's Steve Earle -- as a friend wondered "why isn't this guy famous?" -- doing the track over the closing credits for season one of the acclaimed <b>HBO</b> series <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treme_(TV_series)">Treme'</a></b>. The track documents the Army Corp. of Engineers engineered severe flooding of my beloved New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. . For a self-proclaimed Texas hillbilly singer-songwriter, Earle covers post-flood New Orleans like he grew up in this neighborhood.<br />
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Story-songs don't get much better than <i>This City</i>. The story Steve weaves together is solid American history. <i>This City</i> will last 'til the marble crumbles in D.C.<br />
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Paco Malohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761446861100318921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-57695948783873612872014-05-10T13:26:00.000-04:002014-05-10T13:26:09.849-04:00"Laughing Out Loud": The Wallflowers (1996)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love this deep album cut from <b>The Wallflowers</b> 1996 break-out CD <b><i>Bringing Down the Horse</i></b>. I've intentionally included the lyrics because they're so damn good. Enjoy.</div>
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Paco Malohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761446861100318921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-77833351469358833652014-04-25T09:53:00.003-04:002014-04-25T15:14:56.533-04:00Warren Zevon: "The Wind" (2003): 'Fending Off Death Naturally Through the Transition from Immortality'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-style: italic;">The Wind</b> (Artemis, 2003) Naturally he fends off death-the-fact the way he fended off death-the-theme -- with black humor. "<i>I'm looking for a woman with low self-esteem</i>" is how he sums up the succor he craves, and he finishes off a painful "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" with impatient cries of "<i>Open up, open up, open up</i>." But "El Amor de Mi Vida," "She's Too Good for Me," "Please Stay," and "Keep Me in Your Heart" mean what their titles say. Only by hearing them can you grasp their tenderness, or understand that the absolute Spanish one seems to be for the wife he left behind, or muse that while the finale addresses his current succor provider, it also reaches out to the rest of us. Everyone who says this isn't a sentimental record is right. But it admits sentiment, hold the hygiene, and suggests that he knows more about love dying than he did when he was immortal. <b>A-</b></blockquote>
That's an A+ analysis, but, in my humble opinion, I disagree on Christgua's rating. This essential "facing death" record gets an <b>A</b>.<br />
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Paco Malohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761446861100318921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-57204649391532876872014-04-21T00:00:00.000-04:002014-04-21T06:34:56.641-04:00Ruben "Hurricane" Carter Passes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The Story</b>: <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Hirsch, James (2000) </span><br />
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Bob Dylan lays this travesty of justice raw<br />
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From the Wikipedia Contributors:<span style="text-align: center;"> </span>"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Carter">Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter</a> (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American middleweight boxer who was convicted of murder and later freed via a petition of <i>habeas corpus</i> after spending almost 20 years in prison."</div>
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Paco Malohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761446861100318921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-4891683325050682282014-04-18T15:30:00.000-04:002014-04-19T03:43:16.424-04:00Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Redux<div style="text-align: center;">
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This giant of modern writing passed away April 17th -- yesterday -- at the age of 87.<br />
<i>Señor </i><span style="text-align: center;">Márquez</span><i>, Requiescat in Pace</i>. <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27073911">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27073911</a><br />
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Paco Malohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761446861100318921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-82112254730655395502014-04-13T13:31:00.000-04:002014-04-13T14:54:27.615-04:00Carolyn Wonderland at Skipper's Smoke House: Texas Burnin', with a Cherry Red Custom Telecaster and a Lone Star Lady Singin' the Blues<div style="text-align: center;">
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Carolyn Wonderland at Skipper's Smoke House (April 8, 2014)<br />
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Carolyn blew my socks off. Carolyn was on fire, Texas style. Here's a little recent evidence:<br />
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<b>TEXAS BURNING</b> with Carolyn Wonderland: <i>I Live Alone With Someone</i></div>
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Paco Malohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761446861100318921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-78201895157199236622014-04-04T15:45:00.000-04:002014-04-04T15:45:59.620-04:00An Event that Changed America on April 4, 1968: "Shot rings out in the Memphis sky"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At 6:01 p.m., April 4, 1968, a shot rang out as [Reverend Dr. Martin Luther] King stood on the second-floor balcony of the [Memphis motel where he was staying while he supported] black sanitary public works employees ... who had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages, [pay equity with white employees] and better treatment. From the Wikipedia Contributors on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#Assassination_and_its_aftermath">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> </span></blockquote>
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One man come in the name of love<br />
One man come and go<br />
One man come, he to justify<br />
One man to overthrow</div>
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In the name of love<br />
What more in the name of love<br />
In the name of love<br />
What more in the name of love</div>
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One man caught on a barbed wire fence<br />
One man he resist<br />
One man washed on an empty beach.<br />
One man betrayed with a kiss</div>
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In the name of love<br />
What more in the name of love<br />
In the name of love<br />
What more in the name of love</div>
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(nobody like you...)</div>
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Early morning, April 4<br />
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky<br />
Free at last, they took your life<br />
They could not take your pride</div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> In the name of love</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
What more in the name of love</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
In the name of love</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
What more in the name of love</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
In the name of love</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
What more in the name of love </span><br />
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(<b>U2</b>, <i>Pride (In the Name of Love), <b>The Unforgettable</b></i><b><i> Fire</i></b> (1984)<span style="font-size: 85%;"><br />
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Paco Malohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761446861100318921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737032488148360210.post-91008447992374395582014-03-31T02:52:00.000-04:002014-03-31T02:52:55.254-04:00"Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bruce Springsteen (1976)</div>
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<i>You're born into this life paying, </i><br />
<i>for the sins of somebody else's past ...</i><br />
<i>You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames ...</i><br />
<i>Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream, </i><br />
<i>Adam raised a Cain</i><br />
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<i>Adam raised a Cain</i><br />
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