Tuesday Aug. 25, 2014
ILC 130 would be a pretty dreary place at 7:40 in the morning were it not for a little music.  Today's selections were "The Boy in the Bubble", "Gumboots" sorry it wasn't louder but I had all the volume controls at maximum, and "I Know What I Know".  Everything came from Paul Simon's concert in Zimbabwe in 1987 that followed the release of his Graceland album in 1986.  "Township Jive" introduces the concert.  Time before the 9:30 class for  "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo).

Thursday Aug. 27, 2015
Three songs from Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta recorded in summer 2014 at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

Tuesday Sep. 1, 2015
Wilsen "Sirens", "House on a Hill";   Laura Marling "Blackberry Stone";  Dom La Nena "Llegare"

Thursday Sep. 3, 2015
Music this morning from Joss Stone "Love Me" & "Molly Town" and Elle King "Good for Nothin Woman" & "Under the Influence"

Tuesday Sep. 8, 2015
Music from Lucius featured before class today.  You heard "Until We Get There", "Turn It Around", and "How Loud Your Heart Gets".  There was time to squeeze in "Two of Us on the Run" before the 9:30 class.

Thursday Sept. 10, 2015
Time for several songs from La Santa Cecilia: "Losing Game", "La Negra", "I Won't Cry for You", "Tainted Love", and "Falling".

Tuesday, Sep. 15, 2015
Three songs from a 2015 concert in Brussels,  Belgium featuring Calexico.  They're a favorite group of mine and also a local group.  You heard "Beneath the City of Dreams" (found at 46:58 on the concert video), "Moon Never Rises" (found at 27:07 on the video), and "Falling From the Sky" (at the start of the video).  I may also have played "Alone Again Or".  "Cumbia de Donde" featuring Gaby Moreno is another new song from Calexico that I didn't play in class.  This is the first I've seen or heard of Gaby Moreno, a Guatemalan singer.  You might want to check out her song "Blues de Mar".

Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015
Music from Adele (live at the Royal Albert Concert Hall): "I'll be Waiting", "If it Hadn't Been for Love", "One and Only"

Tuesday Sept. 22, 2015
Music selected from the following before class this morning: Dave McGraw and Mandy Fer "Seritony" (4:52), "Cat Creek" (5:52), Gotye "Somebody That I Used to Know" (4:07),
Patty Griffin "Don't Come Easy" (4:48), "Heavenly Day" (3:51).

Thu., Sep. 24 - Quiz #1 ((music: Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini "Dare To Live", Andrea Bocelli, Elisa "La Voce del Silenzio", Elisa "Dancing")

Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015
Some Cajun music from the Lost Bayou Ramblers "Blue Moon Special" from a concert in Sweden, "Moi J'Connais Pas" from a performance in France, and "When The Saints".

Thursday Oct. 1, 2015
Time for 4 songs from Brandi Carlile before class today: "Looking Out", "The Story", "Touching the Ground" and "It's Over" which was my favorite of the group.

Tuesday Oct. 6, 2015
Music from Dessa:  "Skeleton Key", "Mineshaft II", "Dixon's Girl", and "Sadie Hawkins".  Listen to Dessa discuss what it takes to write and sing songs of this style.

Thursday Oct. 8, 2015
Music from a variety of artists this morning including: Laura Marling "Night Terror", Andrew Bird "My Sister's Tiny Hands", Robert Plant & Alison Krauss "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us", Fleet Foxes "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song", First Aid Kit "Heavy Storm", and "On the Road Again".  Here are a couple more songs from First Aid Kit "Cedar Lane" and "To A Poet".

Tuesday Oct. 13, 2015
Ballyhoo! "Phantoms", "Overnight Sensation", "Walk Away", "Battle Cry", "Cali Girl"

Thu., Oct. 15 - Quiz #2 (music: Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue", Ravel "Bolero (Copenhagen Central Train Station)", Grieg "Peer Gynt (Copenhagen Metro)",
                                        Naturally 7 "In the Air Tonight (Paris Metro)"

Tuesday Oct. 20, 2015
Beatles "I Feel Fine", "Get Back", Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone", Doors "Soul Kitchen", The New Basement Tapes "Kansas City"

Thursday Oct. 22, 2015
Rodrigo y Gabriela "The Soundmaker", Tesoro "Malaguena",  Beth Daunis & Domingo DeGrazia "I'm not sure what the title is".  The latter two groups are local groups.


Tuesday Oct. 27, 2015
Music selections from the following before class today: Black Prairie "Taraffa", "Nowhere Massachusetts", Crooked Still "American Tune", Iron and Wine "Lion's Mane" ), "Upward Over the Mountain", Punch Brothers "Sometimes".


Thursday Oct. 29, 2015
I tried to get to the 8:00 am class a few minutes early so that I could play 4 songs from the Playing For Change project: Afro Fiesta "Nda",  Manu Chao "Clandestino",  "Where There is Love", and "Satchita".  Playing for Change is an effort to "inspire, connect, and bring peace" to people of the world through music.  If you haven't heard their "Stand By Me" you should listen to that also.


Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015
Three songs from Don McLean before class today: "Crossroads" , "American Pie", and "Vincent"

Thursday, Nov. 5 - Quiz #3 (music: Koop "Come to Me" (2:50), Eva Cassidy "It Don't Mean a Thing (if ain't got that swing)" (2:23), Eva Cassidy  "Won't Be Long" (3:38), "Ain't Doin Too Bad" (3:46),  Amy Winehouse "You Know I'm No Good" (4:27), "Back to Black" (4:08),  Dum Dum Girls "Under These Hands" (3:34), Nouvelle Vague "In a Manner of Speaking" (3:58)

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015
Maserati "Oaxaca" (7:33), The XX "Infinity" (5:15), Radiohead "Reckoner" (4:50)

Thursday Nov. 12, 2015
Being featured for the 1st time in ATMO 170, several songs from Tracy Chapman: "The Love That You Had", "Telling Stories", "She's Got Her Ticket", "Save Us All", "Change"


Tuesday Nov. 17, 2015
French music before class today Francesca Blanchard "Le Blues (live on Vermont Public Radio)",  Zaz a Montmartre "Les Passants", Vanessa Paradis & Benjamin Biolay "Le Rempart", Zaz & Pablo Alboran "Sous le Ciel de Paris"


Thursday Nov. 19, 2015
I had originally planned on playing some Tour de France bicycle racing video in honor of this weekend's El Tour de Tucson.  But most of the good coverage with my favorite pair of commentators has been removed from YouTube because of copyright violations.  So I settled on some old songs from Dire Straits: Dire Straits "Down to the Waterline", "Sultans of Swing", "Walk of Life", "Brothers in Arms".

Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015
Had a hard time setting on some music selections for class today.  Here's what I ended up with: Gaelic Storm "Before the Night is Over", Los Lobos "One Time, One Night", Israel Kamakawiwo'ole "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World", Lake Street Dive "Use Me Up"


Tuesday  Dec. 1, 2015
Music this morning from: Haim "I'll Try Anything Once", "Honey & I" (live, played in the 9:30 class),  "If I Could Change Your Mind", "Better Off", "Hazy Shade of Winter".  And an extra bonus "Hazy Shade of Winter" live in 2011 with The Bangles.


Thursday, Dec. 3 - Quiz #4 (music: LeAnn Rimes "I Fall to Pieces" (2:59), Isabelle boulay "La Bhoeme" (4:07), Etta James "Beware" (3:43), Celia Cruz "Rie Y Llora" (3:21), Janis Joplin "Kozmic Blues" (4:25)


Tuesday Dec. 8, 2015
I was happy on this last day of class to be able to present a new discovery: Lissie.  In the 8 am class I had time to play  "Worried About" (4:22), "The Habit" Live at Hotel San Jose, SXSW 2013 (4:26), "Record Collector" (4:14), "In Sleep" (4:11), and "Love in the City" (3:46).  I also played (mostly to myself) "They All Want You" (4:14), "Further Away" (4:14), and "Stairway to Heaven" (8:02) while waiting for the 9:30 people to arrive.

Thursday, Dec. 17 Final Exam: Sia "California Dreamin' ", Salome Leclerc "Tourne Encore", Mariachi Flor de Toloache "Disen".
New York Times article about Mariachi Flor de Toloache "The First All-Female Mariachi Band in New York City".  See also Rhythm in Motion: Flor de Toloache.