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Video: Check out this fantastic piano cover of “House Of The Rising Sun”

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“House Of The Rising Sun” is one of the most frequently covered songs in history. This classic tune by The Animals has been performed in most every genre, ranging all the way from Rock & Roll to Bluegrass.

Today’s video features a young lady who goes by the stage name Gamazda playing this timeless classic on a piano. If that name sounds familiar it’s probably because I featured her in this previous post.  [Read more…]

“Choices”

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“I’ve had choices, since the day that I was born.”  –George Jones (via the song “Choices”)

That line from that song has always resonated with me, because it’s so true.

Our Creator gave each and every one of us the ability to think for ourselves and make our own choices as we live out our lives here on planet Earth. Of course He also gave us the ultimate guidebook to consult as we evaluate the range of choices before us, but we are still completely free to ultimately make our own choices as we see fit.  [Read more…]

Video: Beautiful piano cover of “My Heart Will Go On” from “Titanic”

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It’s no secret that I love music. I always have.

While acoustic guitar is my personal favorite, I actually enjoy all kinds of acoustic music, including piano covers of iconic tunes.

Well, in my humble opinion no song is more iconic that “My Heart Will Go On” from the movie “Titanic”. My guess is no one who has ever watched that movie can hear this song and not have images from the movie instantly pop into their head.  [Read more…]

Another beautiful instrumental guitar performance: “You’re Still The One”

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It’s no secret that I love music. It’s also no secret that I love guitar instrumentals after hearing my dad play them numerous times as I was growing up.

A while back I featured a young man named Guus Dielissen playing “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing”, and that post was incredibly well received.

The short video below features Guus yet again. This time he’s playing the Shania Twain classic “You’re Still The One”, which many consider to be one of the greatest love songs ever.  [Read more…]

A slice of history: Jana Jae’s “Listen to the Mockingbird” played on an Edison Cylinder Phonograph

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Over 100 years ago Thomas Edison invented his ground-breaking Edison Cylinder Phonograph, the first commercially available machine for recording and reproducing sound.

For the first time ever the folks who owned these machines could listen to their favorite music at any time, and as often as they wished.

In the early 1900s Edison’s Cylinder Phonograph was more or less replaced in the marketplace by the phonograph record players that many of us grew up listening to. [Read more…]