I am cleaning house, listening to one of the best (no, correction, THE best) funk / soul singer of his generation.  R.I.P.

The look of love is in your eyes
The look your heart can’t disguise
The look of love is saying so much more
Than words could ever say, yeah

A look my heart has heard
My, my takes my breath away
I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I’ve waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you

The look of love
Oh, it’s on your face
Oh, mama that look time can’t erase
Be mine tonight

And let this be
The start of so many
Groovy nights like this, yeah
Let’s take a lover’s vow
And seal this thing with a kiss

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you

Now that I have found you
Don’t ever go
Oh no

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you

Now that I have found you
Don’t go
Don’t go
Don’t go
The look of love
Don’t go
I love you
Oh, baby
The look of love
Don’t go
Don’t go
Don’t go
Don’t go
Aaah

Reuben James
In my song you live again
And the phrases that I rhyme
Are just the footsteps out of time
From the time when I knew you, Reuben James

Reuben James
All the folks around Madison County cussed your name
You’re just a no-account, sharecropping colored man
Who’d steal anything he can
And everybody laid the blame on Reuben James

CHORUS:
Reuben James,
You still walk the fertile fields of my mind
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
The calloused hands upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James

Flora Grey,
The gossiper of Madison County died with child
And although your skin was black
You were the one that didn’t turn your back
On the hungry white child with no name, Reuben James

Reuben James,
With your mind on my soul and a Bible in your right hand
You said turn the other cheek
For there’s a better world awaiting for the meek
In my mind these words remain from Reuben James

[CHORUS]

[Music goes up a half step in the upcoming last verse]
Reuben James
One dark cloudy day they brought you from the field
And to your lonely pinebox came
Just a preacher and me in the rain
Just to sing one last refrain for Reuben James

[CHORUS]

Who knew David Hasselhoff can sing ?

The Canada Gazette reports a CRTC decision to give Astral Media Inc. permission to operate a new radio station at 99.7 FM in Ottawa.  Astral Media is the company responsible for bringing Virgin Radio to the nation’s capital city.  This new radio station will broadcast soft adult contemporary programming, and will compete directly with Majic 100.3 FM.

[via The London Evening Standard]

“Tens of thousands of people have downloaded copies of unreleased Leona Lewis songs after hackers stole them from computers belonging to Simon Cowell’s record label.”

[via Zombaritaville]

Never Tear You Apart
To the tune of Never Tear Us Apart by INXS

“Don’t eat me”
What I heard from you
Don’t want to kill you
Or chew your body parts

I
I was shambling
You were scared
Hunger subsided
And I will never tear you apart

[via TechJaws]

“If you have a large collection of music, you might have thought of editing the sound track for yourself by adding or removing part of it. There are many audio editing tools available that allow you to do the same – edit audio files, like you edit text files by cut, copy and paste. Many of these tools also support audio recording, if you are planning to create your own album then you can edit your tracks by yourself.”

Received an email message this morning announcing some of the acts coming to Ottawa for the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest to be held July 9 to 19 of this year.

I am excited about Jeff Beck, Jackson Browne, STP, Joe Cocker, and Cake.

The entire festival schedule will be announced and posted online sometime today.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Ottawa Bluesfest
Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:04 AM
Subject: 2009 Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest

The 2009 Bluesfest line-up has been announced and features great acts, such as: Jeff Beck,Jackson Browne, Sam Roberts Band, Loreena McKennitt, Matisyahu, Stone Temple Pilots, Xavier Rudd, Joe Cocker, Neko Case, Our Lady Peace, Blue Rodeo, King Sunny Ade & His African Beats, Cake, Ludacris, Drive By Truckers, LIVE, Paolo Nutini, Jennifer Warnes, Spencer Davis, Estelle, Femi Kuti, Mick Taylor, Ani DiFranco, The National, KISS, Styx, DeVotchKa, Girl Talk, Toots & the Maytals, Alan Parsons Live Project, Ornette Coleman, Iron and Wine, Los Lonely Boys, The Zombies, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and many more….

“Do you remember the sixties ?  I don’t think Joe [Cocker] did…”