Monday's Music Moves Me: Songs about Flowers or Gardens

It's been a while but I will join the 4m blog hop today! The fun theme is songs about Flowers and/or Gardens. 

                                                 "Dead Flowers" The Rolling Stones

The Grateful Dead "Sugar Magnolia"

Scott McKenzie "San Francisco"

Tom Petty "Wildflowers"

"Octopus's Garden" The Beatles

"Wicked Garden" Stone Temple Pilots

"Every Rose Has a Thorn" Poison 

Seal "Kiss from Rose"

David Lee Roth "Yankee Rose"

A little something for everyone! Enjoy and I will be back soon!

Battle of the Bands Results: Jeff Beck and Seal win

Jeff Beck and Seal win 3 to 1 over King's X in a battle over the Jimi Hendrix classic "Manic Depression"



Here the winners get together to cover Bob Dylan's "Like A rolling Stone"

"Crazy" by Seal

See you soon with a new Battle!

A to Z and Battle of the Bands: M is for Manic Depression

It's time foe a Battle of the Bands and it's late and manic. It's also time for the letter M. My theme has come out as Music. Put it in my scrambled brain blender and a really talented guitarist friend shared "Manic Depression" and that's how this thing kind of works.

One of my favorite Jimi Hendrix songs is "Manic Depression"..

Here is Jimi doing his song live...

Time for some contestants.

Contestant One: Kings X

Contestant Two: Jeff Beck and Seal

King's X or Jeff Beck and Seal? Vote in the comments and let me know!

Battle of the Bands: Seal wins!

Starting the year of Battle of the Bands off right with a song from the Sam Cooke songbook. My battle featured the legendary Otis Redding against the talented Seal.



Seal took a commanding lead and never looked back. The results were 4 to 2 for Seal. The winner of course is celebrated on my blog! Sit back, turn your speakers on,  push play and enjoy.

                                                     "Crazy"

"Love's Devine"

                                                 "Kiss From A Rose"

I hope you enjoyed! Come back for my next Battle on the 15th of next month.

Battle of the Bands: A Change is Gonna Come

Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day. I am doing two blog posts which are for music blog hops. I am not going to do three posts. As I write this blogpost I would like to give the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr a nod.



This month song comes from the great Sam Cooke. It is called "A Change is Gonna Come"

Vote for one of the two contenders below in the comments.

Contender One: Seal

Contender Two: Otis Redding

Please vote in the comment and I will post the winners in a week or so. If you want more battles visit this site for a full list of participants. I will have another battle next month on the 15th. I will probably share a few more posts between then and now so please feel free to visit.

Thanks for visiting! 

Battle of the Bands Number 7: Hey Joe

I'm back for my seventh installment of Battle of the Bands. Here is how it works:

Listen to the song clips in the blog post. In the comment section vote for the one you like the best. Feel free to explain why you voted the way you did. The battles take place on the first and 15th and winners will be announced on the 7th and 21st. I will normally post the winner in the comments. Of course have fun and enjoy!

If you are still looking for more musical fun after you vote, you can check out these sites for more battles:

Far Away Series

Your Daily Dose

DiscConnected

Tossing It Out

STMcC Presents "Battle of the Bands"

A Writer's Life in Progress

Curious as a Cathy

The Creative Outlet of StratPlayer

The Sound of One Hand Typing

Alex J. Cavanaugh

This rounds song:

Who knows where this song originally claim. Most agree Billy Roberts penned the song so for a point a reference I will use his version.

So many versions to choose for in a battle of bands..

First Challenger

Seal is such an incredible vocalist and David Gilmour is a guitar great. Enjoy their version..

Second Challenger

The late great Roy Buchanan..

Both versions probably draw more from the Jimi Hendrix version than Billy Roberts or any of the earlier versions. Buchanan is perhaps a more undiscovered guitarist. I was going to use underrated guitarist but everyone I know who knows of him raves about him.

Anyway these are my picks for this competition. Vote in the comments!  Feel free to share your favorite versions as well since this song has been done once or twice!

Seal

Tuesday I had the opportunity to see Seal with special guest Macy Gray on Tuesday at Wolf Trap. You can read my review here.

Youtube has some great videos from the show here is his biggest hit "Kiss from a Rose" enjoy!

As you can see and here the show was amazing! Here is Macy Gray performing her biggest hit "I Try" and this is from Tuesday's show as well..

Yes Seal mixed in favorites, and older songs but he also played several of his newer songs including a lot of Soul classics. This one he played Tuesday night but I can't find it from the show so this version will have to do..

Well this week, this month has been pretty crazy for me so maybe I should leave this video as my last one in this post...

Well I hope you enjoy my review, and I hope you enjoyed my blog! I have shows scheduled for tonight, Friday(maybe two) and Sunday so stay tuned more fun stuff is coming to the blog!