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The best Rolling Stones song never written nor performed by Mick n' Keef. From I Am Trying to Break Your Heart... and Jay Bennett's last performance with the band, if memory serves. EDIT: On closer inspection, I don't see Jay Bennett on stage, so it must have come in the film after Tweedy fired him.
My [...]

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Feb 25th, 2008 | By frightwig | Category: WGOM Videos, frightwig

Live at Ronnie Scott's, 1966. Will edit to add/change later.

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Cat Power - Lived in Bars

Feb 24th, 2008 | By frightwig | Category: WGOM Videos, frightwig

From Later with Jools Holland, 2006.
I chose this because it's an excellent live performance, but the video for the single is also really easy on the eyes.

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Anita O’Day - Sweet Georgia Brown & Tea For Two

Feb 21st, 2008 | By frightwig | Category: WGOM Videos, frightwig

Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. From the film, Jazz on a Summer's Day.
Her sense of time, phrasing and modulation, and the way she works the microphone, is on fantastic display here. A classic performance, and the audience shots are about as priceless.

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Brad Mehldau - Exit Music (for a film)

Feb 18th, 2008 | By frightwig | Category: WGOM Videos, frightwig

Radiohead Jazz.

Live in Vienna, sometime in the recent past.

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Beth Orton - Frankie

Feb 11th, 2008 | By frightwig | Category: WGOM Videos, frightwig

Performing a variant on the old folk song, "Frankie and Johnnie." The start of the video implies that she's covering the 1928 record by Mississippi John Hurt. In any case, the lyrics here refer to the man as "Albert," which indicates, using the Wikipedia as a guide, that her lyrical source (Mississippi John or otherwise) [...]

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Eric Dolphy - Live 1961

Jan 26th, 2008 | By frightwig | Category: WGOM Videos, frightwig

On West German television.

"G.W."

Bass clarinet solo, "God Bless the Child."

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Better Know A Citizen - frightwig

Oct 31st, 2007 | By Andrew | Category: Andrew, Better Know a Citizen, frightwig

Name: frightwig
Hometown: Bremerton, WA
Town I Currently Live In: relocating to an undisclosed location in Oregon
Profession: dedicated parental unit
Bats: R
Throws: R
Positions: corner IF/OF
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I was good enough to be a regular starter for my county youth league teams, but I was never an All-Star. I don't recall being the [...]

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