Don’t think I have seen Brazilian music yet, so here’s one of my all time favorites, “Samurai”, by Brazilian singer and composer Djavan, and featuring Stevie Wonder on the harmonica. I think at some point this song was popular on international radios, because the comment section of the video is full of non-Brazilian people praising it. Its a cheerful, groovy song with beautiful lyrics and I hope you guys enjoy!
Going to see PUP and Jeff Rosenstock tonight.
‘It Can Be Done Again.’ Redskins, mid-80s Trotskyite skinhead soul band, singing about the failed revolutions of the early 20th century in the car park of a James Brown gig…
Style Council’s 1985 vid for ‘Walls Come Tumbling Down!’ shot in Warsaw.
This one has been a favourite for 30+ y:
I first heard about Doyle Dykes this past Sunday, and Wow! He is highly respected among professional guitarists.
My new :
An older :
He’s one of the most seemingly effortless players I’ve heard and he’s always musical. I’m in awe of Tommy Emmanuel but I think Doyle is more consistently musical. Not that Tommy can’t be (and isn’t often) but Doyle never shows off just for the sake of it.
Combining photography and music. Alan Schaller, the black and white Leica shooter, was a pro musician and composer for film and TV and demonstrates some of his guitar playing here:
@lphilpot @Tim I urge you to give Julian Lage a try, he’s really musical and quite contained if we take into consideration his skill level. Here is an acoustic only piece:
I’ve not listened to a lot of his music but I’m aware of him. Quite good. He was interviewed not too long ago on YouTube by Rick Beato.
As a late consequence of your post, I bought “Stronghold” today.
According to the owner of our local music store, it was literally the last copy available at their supplier. Delivery took about four weeks, so seems like they had to search in their storage for quite a while 
. Given that it’s from 1999, I actually didn’t expect that I could still get a new physical copy.
I noticed that the opening track somehow reminds me of the music of Angelo Badalamenti in David Lynch’s movies.
I have been listening to several guitar “finger pickers”. Some of them are unimaginably good, such as Thom Bresh and Lenny Breau.
The video of this is horrible, but listen to the man’s playing:
Orbital - Doctor Who:
A lifelong companion, this concert:
Thanks for sharing, it’s amazing
It has also an interesting inside story.
Ah, jeez, has it been 50 years already? Time flies.
I received a copy of the LP from a co-worker for giving her rides home (evening shift work - 1978). It’s mesmerizing.
Years later, as a personal challenge, I learned to play a transcription of his encore “Over the Rainbow” from a concert at La Scala in Milan. Had to learn how to play some of those 11th “jazz cords.” His is a beautiful arrangement.
Thinking of older performances -
The July floods in Texas made me think of this.
For those who never heard of Stevie Ray Vaughn, you are welcome.
Texas Flood, SRV