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randomvarious · 8 months

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California Blues Playlist

Yep, I've got the blues, folks; and this week, they happen to come from a place that you might not normally associate them with: California. See, a lot of blues scenes first popped up in the south and midwest in the early half of the 20th century, but as black southerners were packing their bags and leaving the Jim Crow south to find better opportunities, a lot of them would end up either heading straight for California or finding their way there, eventually. So, here's a little, off-the-beaten path playlist of some superb Cali-made gems, spanning from the mid-60s to the mid-90s.

Now, a rather large chunk of this thing happens to be taken up by a pair of guys who both shared the same prefix of "Little" in their stage name: Little Joe Blue and Little Johnny Taylor. And I don't know what either of their physical statures truly were, but nothing about their music would suggest to me that they were small 😅. Little Joe Blue was often derided as a copycat of B.B. King, but I think that criticism really misses the forest for the trees, because if you can sound like B.B. King, then that means that you are one hell of a talented blues musician yourself. So, on this playlist, Joe opens up with "Standing on the Threshold," a song with about 2,100 plays on YouTube, and then later follows up with "Gonna Walk On" and "Encourage Me Baby," which have about 4,000 and 6,600 plays, respectively.

And, by far, the two most popular tunes on this playlist are both by Little Johnny Taylor, whose "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing" ended up being more famously covered by both The Rolling Stones and Texas soul-blues legend Z.Z. Hill; but the "Part 2" version of the song that I'm supplying here only has about 1,400 plays in total. And Taylor's other big tune, "Open House at My House," which also has a play count that numbers well past 100K, was more famously covered by Z.Z. Hill too. I like Taylor's renditions of both songs better, though.

The most impressive performance of all, though, comes from its lone woman, Ledisi, who delivered an incredibly soulful and live, five-and-a-half-minute rendition of an old torch song called "Stormy Weather" at San Francisco's Cafe du Nord back around 1996. She's a pretty popular musician, with songs on YouTube that have racked up over millions of plays each, but this stunning tune of hers only has about 4,200.

And following her is another performance from that same Cafe du Nord, by a guy named Lee E. White, whose brand of blues-gospel flew way under the radar, as his quiet tune here, "You're Gonna Miss Me," only currently has four YouTube plays.

And not to be missed, either, are a couple tunes from the guy who was quite possibly the second most important force in west coast blues, behind T-Bone Walker: Lowell Fulson. On this playlist, he contributes "Sleeper" and "My Baby," both sweet and smooth late 60s-early 70s cuts, with ~24.5K and ~5.5K plays, respectively.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible and links are provided below to songs that have been posted about previously in order to give them more context:

Little Joe Blue - "Standing on the Threshold" Lowell Fulson - "Sleeper" Lowell Fulson - "My Baby" Little Johnny Taylor - "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing" Little Joe Blue - "Gonna Walk On" Little Joe Blue - "Encourage Me Baby" Little Johnny Taylor - "Open House at My House, Part 1" Little Johnny Taylor - "When the Deal Goes Down" Ledisi feat. The Rob Rhodes Trio - "Stormy Weather" Lee E. White - "You're Going to Miss Me"

(Wow, everybody's name starts with the letter L!)

This playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So, I'll be adding more songs to this sometime in the future, but for now, we start with ten very good songs that end up totaling a little over half an hour.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

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nikatyler · 4 years

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Tyler Rose for the 22 facts thing!

Turns out I don’t have any unused pictures of him except for the ones where he’s with his girlfriend, but that’s okay.

Also, side note related to my previous post, I’m fine now, just a little angry and grossed out that people actually behave like that. But back to the ask, shall we?

Full name: Tyler Jasper Rose (but he doesn't ever use his middle name, he doesn't like the person he got it from - but he also didn’t officially change his name to not have it, and I’m only pointing that out because someone else actually did that but more on that later in another post haha)

Height: 178 cm

Sexual orientation: Bisexual

Where are they from: Twinbrook

Occupation: He's a musician. He sings in a band and often plays the guitar too, even if he's "officially" not the guitarist.

Bad habits: He doesn't know when to stop joking. He won't know he's been crossing the line until someone actually yells at him or walks away angry.

Insecurities: He's always felt like he's not good enough. He's looked at his siblings and thought, "Okay, Bianca is a genius, Caleb is hardworking, Zoey is the kindest person ever…but what about me? I just…sing." He makes fun of them a lot, but deep inside, he admires them.

What makes them proud of themselves: Although he thinks it's not enough as I just said, he's proud of his voice and his musical talent overall. He’s also really proud of his hair.

How would they describe themselves: "Just an idiot with music taste better than yours."

Hobbies: Singing, songwriting, watching old music videos, karaoke, going to parties with his friends

Dream vacation: If it was possible, he'd love to spend the whole summer going to various music festivals and sleeping in tents.

Favourite animal: He really likes wolves.

Favourite music: Usually old rock music, but he'll listen to anything that slaps.

Guilty pleasure: Don't tell anyone, but he lowkey was a One Direction stan in middle school.

Pet peeve: When people don't understand sarcasm.

Favourite subject at school: It was Simlish, actually! He doesn't seem like it, but he can appreciate good poetry. He also liked the Music class of course.

Anything strange about them: It's not exactly strange, but it might be a bit surprising considering he's trying to have this "I'm a badass" vibe. He would kinda like to have a tattoo, but his fear of needles is stronger. He's sure he wouldn't be able to overcome it (even if his friends tell him that he would and that it’s not so bad). But if you asked him, he'd tell you exactly what tattoo he wants.

Best friend: He's best friends with his girlfriend, no one gets him as much as she does. His bandmates would be close second. (which reminds me, there's a post in my drafts and it has been there since last July…)

Partner: Sharon

One trait they like in others: Honesty

How would you describe their aesthetic: Edgy with a sprinkle of femininity when he feels like it. (More on the edgy side in his teenage years, the "sprinkle” is something he started embracing a little later)

Random fact: Don't be surprised if I one day accidentally refer to him as "Tori". I've mentioned this nonsims story that I've been writing, right? And I've also mentioned that I decided to use some of my legacy characters there (with some adjustments of course). Obviously, I had to put the triplets to that world. At first I left them with their original names, but then I started thinking of the worldbuilding more, including names and language inspirations and such, and let's just say "Tyler" and "Caleb" didn't fit it anymore. Besides, they don't even sound right for the status they have in that story. So yeah, Tyler's name in that story is Tori. Well, it’s a nickname, actually. But he hates being called by his given name, he always goes "that's not me, that was my father". And I'll leave now before I turn this into a ramble about this story 😅

Thanks for the ask! ♥

#ts4 #sims 4 #rose legacy extra #oc: tyler #i really love writing that story btw #i don't even know how it'll end #i just know the characters and what they're trying to achieve #and their lives get intertwined #and it will result into something big in their world #i kinda have an idea what it'll be but it's vague #elisabettasims

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leviathan-says-hi · 4 years

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Ask 21 / Tag 21

Answer 21 questions then tag 21 people you’d like to know a little better. Tagged by @fahrenflame Hope you're doing well! 😊

× Nickname ×

Levi, I guess? Not too many nicknames, most people think my actual name's bizarre enough and just go with that 😅

× Real name ×

Leviathan

× Zodiac ×

Pieces 🐳

× Height ×

Uhhhh...like 5.7"-5.8" ish??? Maybe???

× What time is it? ×

13:03

× Favorite musician ×

Marilyn Manson, Ghost, My Chemical Romance...idk honestly. I don't really listen to whole artists anymore, I just find random songs I like by all different people and throw them in a huge playlist, so most of my 'favourites' I literally know like 1 song by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whoops. Individual songs I've been enjoying lately though are:

° Nightmares - Easy Life (hence the recent animation lol)

° The Bidding - Tally Hall

° Boys Will Be Bugs - Cavetown

° Carnal Carnival - Here Come The Mummies

× Favorite sports team ×

Ngh...not so much a sports person ngl, but my dad gave me his Oakland Raiders baseball jacket he had as a kid and I wear that a bunch so er...go Raiders?

× Other blogs ×

Oh god I have a whole bunch. I have the really bad habit of making a new one everytime I get wrapped up in something then kinda abandoning it...I'm probably most active on my Ghost one @cardinal-cornucopia

× Do I get asks? ×

Nah, not so much

× How many blogs do I follow? ×

Christ, like...4,000 I think. I've been here a while, what can I say 😅

× Any tumblr crushes? ×

Eh, more so admiration than crushes, but there's a few people who are pretty rad, yeah

× Lucky number ×

13! 6 is pretty chill too

× What am I wearing right now? ×

Having a slouchy day revising for uni stuff, so grey sweatpants and my Unus Annus shirt 👍 Comf

(Quick side note, imma be pretty busy until the start of February when the new semester kicks in / spring exams are over, so hopefully I can start back up drawing/animating then!)

× Dream vacation ×

Maybe a road trip? I'm not really one for travel but a long, chilled-out drive to nowhere sounds really good rn

× Dream car ×

Welp, my sucky health means I would be considered the biggest of liabilities on the road so was basically told it's not even worth getting my licence 😅 BUT teenage me was really into motorbikes and was actually saving for a Suzuki GN125 👌

× Favorite food ×

Probably mac n cheese? Any form of instant noodle/pasta that can be microwaved at 3am between assignments. University broke me, what can I say

× Drink of choice ×

Blue raspberry jolly rancher soda / Pink grapefruit Fanta / Vanilla coke are my sugary weaknesses, but I also really love weird tea flavours like strawberry cupcake green tea and pineapple with grapefruit!

× Languages ×

English...barely 😅 Tried learning Russian but got sick so had to stop. Brain don't work so good ✌️ Think I still rember the alphabet/1-10 though!

× Instruments ×

Okay, okay so like, hear me out...I play banjolele. Well? No. Enthusiastically? Very! For anyone who doesn't know it's like the ungodly amalgamation of a banjo and ukulele and I love it to death. I also have a full sized banjo and ukulele not smushed together too so I guess they count separately too? But yeah, banjolele's my main squeeze 🖤

× Celebrity crushes ×

🤫

× Random fact ×

I've got a few months of neuroscience left before I should get my psychology degree, and I've been (unofficially, shh!) invited to stay on and complete a masters degree in research methods! Whoo 🎉🎊✨ Sounds boring, I know, but my academic dream would be a PhD in evolutionary psychology/neuroscience soooo...Slowly, slowly doing the thing 👍

× Tagging ×

Been out of the loop for a while so no idea who's done this already or not, sorry!

@pierlerett

@cardicishot

@markipliersin89

@nameless-jinx

@haunted-kazoo

@goodboysatan

@copias-caboose

#Tag meme #Personal

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