2013

John Stainton Music Video

Otis made the video, I made the guitar whines and moans.John is shopping for a backer for City After Dark.

Corby's Obits 2012

For those who are no longer with us ( in body )

Levon Helm - "Well that just made my heart throb to the bottom of my feet."

Etta James - "My heart was wrapped up in clover."

Earl Scruggs “If you don’t let things develop, it’s like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly”

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson “Doc takes in the larger universe and makes it come out on the guitar.”  Bill Frisell

Raylene Rankin  "We rise again in the faces of our children"

Bob Babbitt (Robert Kreinar) "He'll play one note and eveything will be fine for 5 minutes"

Donald 'Duck' Dunn "We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."

Dave Brubeck   "I want to be bombastic: take it or leave it."

Ravi Shankar "Sound is God."

Jerry Leiber   "We weren't white then."

Hal David - "Or are we meant to be kind?"

Robert B.Sherman - "We love to laugh... loud and long and clear"

Billy Bryans Canadian drums at their best are always militant.

Whitney Houston "All at once, I'm drifting on a lonely sea, holding onto memories"

Donna Summer - "This state of independence shall be ... the sound of higher love today."

Ray Collins - "Please hear my plea. God only knows what your loving does to me."

Sam Rivers " It seems like the music that musicians have the hardest problem getting recorded is the music that (eventually) withstands the ravages of time."

Robin Gibb - "Don't go talking too loud you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones."

David S. Ware "He insisted that his music not be mistaken for aggression or pain." Ben Ratliff 

Joe South "God grant me the serenity To remember who I am."

One last Happy Gangnam Style Christmas!!

Chocolate Drops for Christmas! A blessful blissful Christmas to all my listeners and readers.

Playlist for Corby’s Orbit of Friday, 21 December, 2012

Host: Paul Corby

 ( brought to you by Shiverly Bells, Missile-tones & Ha !!! Bum-hugs ) With thanks to Gaskin and his Barnyard connection.

5-7 p.m. online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.ca .  Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

 Videos athttp://www.youtube.com/user/CorbysOrbit?feature=mhee

5:00    Lightful Sprees

Jellybean Benitez ~ Jingle Bells ~ Get Carter sdtrk

Michael McDonald ~ Christmas On The Bayou ~ Through The Many Winters

Shirley Horn remixed by Christian Prommer ~ Verve Remixed Christmas
*Meaghan Smith ~ Silver Bells ~ It Snowed

5:15  Santa Mentality

*John Southworth ~ Old Bean ~Barnyard Drama vol. 8 (www.barnyardrecords.com)

*Nancy Dutra feat. Ron Sexsmith ~ Sweet Tomorrow ~ Time Will Tell

*Andrew Downing & Yesim Tosuner ~ White Christmas ~ Barnyard Drama vol. 9 (www.barnyardrecords.com)

*Christine Bougie ~ 28 Known Galaxies ~ Hearts & Galaxies @ The Tranzac Christmas Eve 7 p.m.

5:30   Rockin’ Around The Cosmos Free

*Ill Scarlett ~ Don’t Rush ~ 2012 E.P.

*Jane’s Party ~ What You Believe In ~ Umbrellas E.P.

*David Gogo ~ Santa Claus Is Back In Town ~ Christmas With The Blues

Y La Bamba ~ Señor Santa ~ Holidays Rule

Calexico ~ Green Grows The Holly ~ Holidays Rule

*The Beige ~ The Exterminating Angel ~ El Angel Exterminador

Fun ~ Sleigh Ride ~ Holidays Rule

6:00  Soul  Remedy for Scrinches and Grooges

The Temptations ~ Silent Night

Cee-Lo Green ~ Mary Did You Know?

Patti Labelle ~ This Christmas

2 Banks Of 4 ~ One Day

Easy Star All Stars ~ Fixing A Hole

*Devon Sproule & Paul Curreri ~ Joy Joy! ~ Salvation Is Created  (Bifrost Arts)

6:30  Let’s Take The Road Before Us

*Jen Foote ~ The Road It Goes (produced by J.P. Cormier)

*The Minnikin Family feat. Gabriel Minnikin ~ Marine Band ~ The Minnikins’ Photo Album

*Anna Atkinson ~ Wait All Morning ~ Mooniture (Aporia)

*Joanna Moon ~ Mi Alma, Me Condena ~ Vagabunda

6:45  Essence of Pleasances and Good Toronto Musical Scents wafted over Good King Wenceslas by CSSR State Phiharmonic (Patrick Crouchian Remix) Christmas Remixed 2 on Six Degrees

6:50    Full Dark Blend  (Longest Night Of The Year)

Cassandra Wilson ~ The Little Drummer Boy ~ Jazz To The World (Blue Note)

*Rose Cousins ~ The Darkness ~ We Have Made A Spark

”There’s nothing wrong with the heart in your chest,

It might be heavy but it’s innocent,

It can’t keep the darkness out,

You can’t keep the darkness out”

                                ~ Rose Cousins

My 50 Most Adored and Played Albums of 2012

Let Grimes and Frank Ocean have their day. I want the disks below to get a bit of their praises due. Canadian artists are indicated in RED.

My 50 Most Adored and Played Albums of 2012

in Orbital Non-linear Rotational Order,

Chimes of Freedom     The Songs of Bob Dylan Cold Specks         I Predict a Graceful Expulsion Old Time Machine          Old Time Machine Radio Radio             Havre de Grâce MJ Cyr               Canopy     (Baha’i Texts set to music) _____________________________________________ Freeman Dre & The Kitchen Party      Old Town Zeus            Busting Visions Your Neck Of The Woods                Alberta Burning Joe Louis Walker      Hellfire Trampled By Turtles      Stars and Satellites Easy Star All-Stars      Thrillah (Michael J. inna Reggae) Debo Band     Debo Band    (Ethio-merican Funky Jazz) Trent Severn      Trent Severn Suzana D’Amour     Suzana D’Amour  (Mod Cabaret) Sarah Burton   Fire Breathers   (Ripe emotions with a beat) The Robert Glasper Experiment  Black Radio Recovered (The Remixes) Colleen Brown    Dirt Lupe Fiasco    Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor II - The Great American Rap Album Paul Reddick    Wishbone Santigold    Master Of My Make-Believe _____________________________________________ Carolina Chocolate Drops          Leaving Eden Steve Gates    A Bee In Her Mouth CATL     Soon This All Will Be Gone The Wilderness Of Manitoba    Island Of Echoes Evening Hymns   Spectral Dusk Orchid Ensemble   Life Death Tears Dream

Kat Goldman    Gypsy Girl Del Barber           Headwaters Rose Cousins         We Have Made A Spark Stephen Tsitsos      In The West Pieta Brown         Mercury The Hunger Games       Soundtrack Dale Boyle       Throwback Cara Luft       Darlingford Jesse Laine    Love Hierarchy Jaffa Road     Where The Light Gets In ______________________________________ Catfish Keith       Buzz  (Blues-Fun) Waylon Jennings     Goin’ Down Rockin’ (Posthumous Masterpiece) Jim Byrnes     I Hear The Wind In The Wires Julie Doiron       So Many Days Christa Couture ~ The Living Record ______________________________________ Elizabeth Shepherd     Rewind Rodrigo Y Gabriela   11:11 Nancy Dutra      Time Will Tell The Darcys      Aja Punch Brothers    Who’s Feeling Young Now? Tame Impala      Lonerism Old Man Luedecke   Tender Is The Night K.C. Roberts & The Live Revolution         Between The Cracks Cameo Blues   10,000 Hours Fatoumata Diawara     Fatou

Short Subjects Worthy Of  Longer Attention Spans 

The Matinee (EP)                            Suzy Wilde (EP)                   Royal Canoe (EP)       
       

Jordan Klassen (EP)                

 Doug Paisley  Golden Embers (EP)    

Christine Bougie   Hearts & Galaxies (EP) 

Ruth Minnikin    The Minnikin Photo Album (EP)