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Favoriting July 4, 2022: Jewels for July 4th!

Labor Day Weekend Fireworks, Roxbury, NY 2017-09-03

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Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
The Association  When Love Comes to Me   Favoriting Just the Right Sound: The Association Anthology     
The Cowsills  The Rain, The Park & Other Things   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MGM Records  0:02:40 (Pop-up)
The Lovin' Spoonful  Six O'Clock   Favoriting Anthology  Kama Sutra  0:05:33 (Pop-up)
Fred Neil  Ba-Da-Da   Favoriting The Many Sides of Fred Neil  Collector's Choice Music  0:08:16 (Pop-up)
The Jefferson Airplane  Today   Favoriting Surrealistic Pillow  RCA  0:11:46 (Pop-up)
The Byrds  Renaissance Fair   Favoriting Younger Than Yesterday  Columbia/Legacy  0:14:46 (Pop-up)
Tim Buckley  Phantasmagoria in Two   Favoriting Goodbye and Hello  Elektra  0:16:35 (Pop-up)
The Left Banke  Shadows Breaking Over My Head   Favoriting Walk Away Renée / Pretty Ballerina  Sundazed  0:20:01 (Pop-up)
Love  You Set the Scene   Favoriting Forever Changes  Elektra  0:22:32 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Chuck Johnson 

Moonstone   Favoriting

Balsams 

 

0:29:17 (Pop-up)
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks  Long Comma Viper   Favoriting Last Train To Hicksville... The Home Of Happy Feet  Blue Thumb  0:38:22 (Pop-up)
The Jim Kweskin Jug Band  Minglewood   Favoriting Garden of Joy / America  Collectables  0:40:29 (Pop-up)
Mississippi John Hurt  Nobody's Dirty Business   Favoriting Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings  Columbia Legacy/Okeh  0:43:16 (Pop-up)
Reverend Gary Davis  Civil War Parade   Favoriting If I Had My Way: Early Home Recordings  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings  0:46:09 (Pop-up)
The Band  Tears of Rage   Favoriting Music from Big Pink  Capitol  0:51:36 (Pop-up)
Rickie Lee Jones  Elvis Cadillac   Favoriting The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard    0:56:57 (Pop-up)
Rhiannon Giddens with Bhi Bhiman  Freedom Highway   Favoriting Freedom Highway  Nonesuch  1:00:47 (Pop-up)
The Staple Singers  Are You Sure?   Favoriting Freedom Highway  Columbia/Legacy  1:05:32 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Chuck Johnson 

Moonstone   Favoriting

Balsams 

 

1:08:20 (Pop-up)
Charles Lloyd Trio (w/Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan)  Dorotea's Studio   Favoriting Chapel  Blue Note  1:19:26 (Pop-up)
Elena Setién  New   Favoriting Unfamiliar Minds    1:31:49 (Pop-up)
Chuck Johnson  Eye on the Sparrow   Favoriting Balsams    1:34:09 (Pop-up)
Janel Leppin  Her Hand is His Score   Favoriting Ensemble Volcanic Ash  Cuneiform Records  1:41:16 (Pop-up)
Lightning In A Twilight Hour  Neuchâtel   Favoriting The Circling of the Seasons    1:45:23 (Pop-up)
Jeff Buckley  Lover, You Should Have Come Over   Favoriting Grace  Columbia Records  1:51:21 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Chuck Johnson 

Moonstone   Favoriting

Balsams 

 

1:58:19 (Pop-up)
Becca Stevens & The Secret Trio  Lucian / Pathways   Favoriting Becca Stevens & The Secret Trio  Ground Up Records  2:06:17 (Pop-up)
Gyan Riley  Sometimes You Go Back for More   Favoriting Silver Lining  Gyan Riley  2:13:01 (Pop-up)
Laraaji  Deep Celestial   Favoriting Two Sides of Laraaji    2:21:39 (Pop-up)
Hamza El Din  Grandfathers' Stories (Annun Sira')   Favoriting Al Oud: Instrumental & Vocal Music Of Nubia  Vanguard Records  2:27:38 (Pop-up)
Oren O'Blivion (Bloedow)  Don't Know What to Do With Myself   Favoriting Last of the Great American Menstruels    2:38:48 (Pop-up)
Leonard Cohen  Who By Fire   Favoriting New Skin For The Old Ceremony  Columbia Records  2:42:44 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Chuck Johnson 

Moonstone   Favoriting

Balsams 

 

2:45:29 (Pop-up)
Alisha Sufit  Rainbow's End   Favoriting Alisha's Cellar  Alisha Sufit  2:51:15 (Pop-up)
Jon Balke  Mirada Furtiva   Favoriting     2:56:45 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Irene speaks! 

 

 

 

2:58:47 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Sean in Bristol UK:

Good afternoon Irene, Happy 4th of July to you and our happy group of listeners
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Annabella in Crewkerne UK:

Hey Irene, sending Happy 4th July vibes from an ex pat, greetings one and all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
Irene Trudel:

Happy 4th of July to you, Sean, Annabella, and all listening in today!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Hello there Irene and all other listeners!
Happy July 4th!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Hey Andrew, in Canada it’s a different day for Independence, can’t remember the date, shoddy of me
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Hi Sean, We`re on July 1st.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Irene Trudel:

Hey Andrew, Happy Canada Day last week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Thanks.
Don`t The Mets look great?
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Stork:

Hey Irene and Trudelians!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:05pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Thank you Irene, of course Canada Day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
doctorjazz:

Happy 4th Irene and all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Andrew, big series against my team that gets up my right nostril in a fortnight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Andrew in Toronto:

I know the feeling!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Guten tag, Stork. Salutations Doctorjazz
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Andrew, when I go to Truist Park in September I will keep my lips firmly sealed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Irene Trudel:

Hi Stork and doctorjazz! Getting started today with a poppy set of 1967 gems for this holiday, inspired by a show with Murderers Row last Friday night..
Avatar 12:10pm
Stork:

Hiya, Sean in Bristol UK!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Sean, you had best do that.
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Annabella in Crewkerne UK:

Loving this set, Irene
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
doctorjazz (in Joisey):

What Annabelle in Crewkerne UK said!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
David (in London):

Afternoon Irene and all assembled Trudelians.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Good afternoon David
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
doctorjazz (in Joisey):

Hey, DiL, got a chance to listen to that set, very cool indeed!
Avatar 12:18pm
Stork:

From the first word, you know a Buckley is singing. And that it's not William F.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Irene Trudel:

'Afternoon to you, David!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Splendid set to start the proceedings, Irene
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:20pm
David (in London):

Stork, Tim Buckley, Lord Buckley and William F. Buckley would be a Hell of a vocal trio. Sorry I missed the Club yesterday, I was travelling back from Liverpool on a train with crappiest WiFi known to humanity.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:20pm
David (in London):

doctorjazz, so glad! I had a hunch it would be to your liking. Also, hello!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
David (in London):

Sean, Annabella, Andrew, salutations good people.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

David, right now, travelling by train is close to the seventh circle of hell!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
doctorjazz (in Joisey):

For a moment, I thought I was caught in a space-time warp, and was listening to Big Planet Noise! (But enjoying the sounds immensely)!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
doctorjazz (in Joisey):

Love, Love, Love...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
David (in London):

Sean, actually to be fair, it was a very swift and pleasant journey on the whole. Sadly the WiFi wasn't up to demands I asked of it, though...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
chresti:

Morning Irene and irenites!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
David (in London):

Arthur Lee was apparently always slightly embarrassed by his facility with English. Which is insane considering what an amazing lyricist he was.

Chrestikins!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm
chresti:

I've been tuned in whilst being trapped in change password hell.
Hell0 Davidkins!
Avatar 12:27pm
Stork:

Hey DiL! No worries - the archive is always there. I love your trio idea! An All-Buckley show!
  12:28pm
Jeff:

Irene, I’ve been aware of you forever. I’ve been listening to Bob Brainen since 1980 (along with Frank O’Toole R.I.P.). And, I’ve tuned in to New Sounds on occasion. But, somehow, this is the first time I’m actually listening to you (sorta). I’m glad I finally did (especially today)!
Avatar 12:29pm
Stork:

Welcome, Jeff! Your Mondays will never be the same!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:30pm
doctorjazz:

Stork, that could be a song title!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
prguitar:

Hey there Irene!! Glad to start the afternoon with Love!! Hope you and Peter are having a sweet holiday! Same for all of you dear ones! Dare I call us "Trudelians" after David's (in London) usage. Which has quite a ring to it...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
StringOFperils:

Hello Irene and one nation under a groove! Careful with that cherry-bomb Eugene!
Avatar 12:32pm
redkayak:

Happy 4th everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Hey chresti, jeff, redkayak, StringOFperils, prguitar
Avatar 12:37pm
Annabella in Crewkerne UK:

Trukeepers, Trudelians, it’s a close family
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redkayak:

@sean - Ahoy there :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm
chresti:

Hey Sean in Bristol UK! My son's name is Sean too, he's somewhere in Italy now, I think.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
StringOFperils:

Yay!!! Love this Hot Licks LP
Avatar 12:39pm
Annabella in Crewkerne UK:

A flotilla of dinghies has set sail as I speak from Bristol to reclaim The Colonies!!
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Annabella in Crewkerne UK:

Dan Hicks spanks bottie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Irene Trudel:

Hiya prguitar, StringOFperils, redkayak and chresti! It's been a minute.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
StringOFperils:

Take my Colonies, please.......*rimshot
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
doctorjazz:

Nether of my girls is named Sean, but the older one is in Alaska.
Will need to head out soon, but loved the set, thanks Irene!
Happy 4th all (and sorry, you Brits...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Irene Trudel:

prguitar, Trudelians has a nice ring to it...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:43pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

We had a complete nut case on the throne in 1776!
Avatar 12:44pm
redkayak:

@Irene - Ahoy captain! Glad to be among the flotilla today...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:44pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Sorry Georgia!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm
doctorjazz:

As King George sang (in a somewhat known show), "you'll be back"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:49pm
doctorjazz:

Took me a while to adjust my ears to Rev Davis, but now I am just amazed and love hearing him!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
prguitar:

I feel thankful to have seen Tim Buckley play more than a few times all those years ago.. his music is fascinating.. it really was in another universe, which took many years of listening to fully appreciate.. Wasn't much time to witness Tim's vision evolve.. He left us way too soon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
doctorjazz:

(Davis always sounds like everything is about to fall apart, but miraculous it holds together, and is just amazing!
Love this Band time, and Big Pink!
Avatar 12:52pm
Annabella in Crewkerne UK:

This is what I love about this show, I am introduced to music that was unknown to me, absolute class
  12:52pm
Dean:

Charles Ives would suit today's playlist.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

The Band, nice, Irene
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
doctorjazz:

(cramming 3 hours of comments on before I leave...)
Think I'm really outta here, will listen in transit, though...)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:55pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Salutations Dean
  12:56pm
Dean:

Howdy, SiBUK.
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redkayak:

This music is the bomb. In the best way possible ;)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:56pm
Michael 98145:

Greetings on this -curious- day
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:57pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Rickie, wonderful
  12:58pm
Dean:

RLJ brings to mind Nanci Griffith, RIP.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Rickie`s book is awesome everybody!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
prguitar:

It does Irene! I see that Stork used "Trudelians" in the chat a short while before David (in London).. I may have missed it long ago.. In any event, don't want to slight the author!! "Tears of Rage" flowing into "Elvis Cadillac"!, then "Freedom Highway" Really touching on this day.. Thanks Irene!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
alanr:

shoutout from my hometown Cleveland, Ohio (visiting)..just down the road from another insane police killing of Jayland Walker, a young Black man, in Akron, Ohio....."freedom?"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:08pm
Michael 98145:

some pandemics are more stubborn than others
  1:08pm
headcleaner:

Don't mean to sound trite, Irene - but thanks for making me feel good about this country again (for a while at least)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
Irene Trudel:

Hey there, Dean, Michael, alanr and headcleaner! Glad to have you listening from wherever.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
Michael 98145:

that's not trite
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
alanr:

@headcleaner its a history of contradictions, with a rotten core/foundation
of racism and arrogance.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

Good morning-ish, Irene!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Michael 98145:

happy to be here on this island on the stream
  1:14pm
headcleaner:

@alanr -- Agreed, historically. But another part of me says: "Life is all about what you put into it" -- the artists Irene played in this last set seem to know that, on a certain level
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Hey S, M & S, Micheal 98145, alanr and headcleaner
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:23pm
Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

Hi, Sean!
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Michael 98145:

Aloha, friends
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
David (in London):

Sadly I missed take my leave now. More happily, I'm heading out to see dub legend Scientist tonight.

Thank you Irene for some great sounds. Toodles all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
Michael 98145:

Whoa! Ciao @David
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:29pm
StringOFperils:

Scientist! Nice. Enjoy that!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
chresti:

Cool, Davidkins! Toodles!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm
Irene Trudel:

Have fun, David! And hello Summer&Michael&Sylvia! nice seeing you last week in Central Park.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
doctorjazz:

Listening on the drive, loved the Lloyd (reminded me a bit of Jim Hall).
Ok, bye again!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37pm
Irene Trudel:

Haver fun, doctorjazz!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:39pm
Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

Yes, Irene! That was so very nice, indeed!
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Annabella in Crewkerne UK:

Enjoy the concert, David
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Sean in Bristol UK:

Have a fab time, David
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:57pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Jeff Buckley, yes!
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prguitar:

Forgot to post this earlier.. not uncommon lately!! ... and on!! Was thinking Mavis and fam was going to be up next after Rhiannon!! Can listen to the Staples all day.. The Mavis album "We'll Never Turn Back" with Ry came to mind too! Thanks for Jeff Buckley too Irene!! So fortunate to see him play too! A couple of lifetimes after his dad.. Jeff left us way too soon as well.. Heartbreaking...
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Annabella in Crewkerne UK:

Becca, wonderful, absolutely love this album
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:08pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Such a huge fan of Becca Stevens, another great album from this fine artist
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:10pm
Irene Trudel:

Agreed Annabella and Sean! I love this collaboration between Becca and The Secret Trio.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:19pm
chresti:

Applied the first coat of "war paint" in preparation for a party Franco got us invited to (he made apricot pies) Hope to catch the first hour of Arbitrarium.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm
Irene Trudel:

That sounds like fun, chresti!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:22pm
Andrew in Toronto:

Thanks for a lovely show.
I`m still listening.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:23pm
Irene Trudel:

Thanks Andrew! No need to comment when in listening mode, I say.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

So much lovely ambient-y stuff, today, Irene!!
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WR:

Hi Irene.

chresti, any party with fruit pie sounds like a good time. In this season some ice cream would be a plus too.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:28pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Love this track from Laraaji, perfect for this moment in time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:29pm
Irene Trudel:

Glad you're enjoying this lovely wash of sounds, WR, S&M&S and Sean!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:32pm
WR:

Just wokenup from a nap by newscast about 4th of July parade shooting in suburbs of Chicago. Highland Park. From a roof top. Couple of hours ago.
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Stork:

Mavis will be 83 years old this coming Sunday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:33pm
Irene Trudel:

Guns. Will this madness ever stop?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Irene Trudel:

Ooh, Stork! I sense a special coming up, maybe?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:38pm
chresti:

WR, thankfully it's been in the low 80s for the last couple days, back to the 90s by Thursday.
Ah shoot, snipers🙀
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Stork:

This Hamza El Din record is literally entrancing!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
Michael 98145:

did someone say fruit pie ?!?
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Stork:

Irene - every week I say I'm gonna take a break from the birthday, and every week I look at the calendar adn say something like "oh, wow. Lee Morgan, Mavis Staples and Neil Tennant all born on July 10." What's a Stork to do?
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Stork:

Can there be a top ten of Leonard Cohen songs? If so, this has gotta be in there.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
Michael 98145:

Lee Morgan, please.
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Stork:

There shall be Lee Morgan, Michael 98145. A very special special for him, in fact, but he'll have to share the day.
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WR:

My favorite Leonard Cohen song is usually whichever I am hearing at the moment.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:53pm
Irene Trudel:

Here's a link to a review of that Leonard Cohen doc. www.nytimes.com...
  2:54pm
Dean:

Last weekend I played tracks from Lee Morgan's complete Live at the Lighthouse for a visiting friend of mine. His eyes bugged out. So exquisite.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
Irene Trudel:

Thanks to all of you for listening in today, but I must head away until next Monday at noon. Stay here for The Arbitrarium with Arb: wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Thank you, Irene
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arb:

Beautiful show Irene, thank you!!
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WR:

My first jazz club attendance was to see Lee Morgan in SF shorly before his gig at the Lighthouse.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
Michael 98145:

Thanks again, Irene
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
Irene Trudel:

WR, I'll have to save the Lee Morgan for next week. Arb, I hope it's a nice lead-in for you!
  2:58pm
Dean:

Was Maupin with him, WR?
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WR:

Thank you Irene, sorry to sully the mood of your program with the shooting comment. Thankfully the music you have been playing has been a bit of a balm.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:00pm
Irene Trudel:

WR, that's always my goal, to make life a little better through music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:00pm
chresti:

Thanks Irene!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
Michael 98145:

brava
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
prguitar:

Thanks for a sweet afternoon of musical healing Irene! So glad to be here with you and fellow Trudelians! Will tune in next Monday, time permitting.. Take good care everyone and be safe!
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