60 years of Gloria

Van Morrison wrote "Gloria" in the summer of 1963 while he was turning 18 years old and touring mostly as a sax player in Germany with the Monarchs. A little later he joined the Gamblers which became the band Them. Live performances of "Gloria" usually lasted for 15 minutes or more due to jamming improvisation. Though "Gloria" had been performed since 1963, it was firstly recorded with Van Morrison and the Them in April 1964 and released in December of that year. Here's Them performing live on October 19 1965 at Music hall de France, Paris:

"Gloria" was covered by many bands and musicians, including the Doors which may have made the most famous version of all. However, the most thrilling ones are the Patti Smith's versions.

Just for its beauty, here's also "Gloria" by Van Morrison with John Lee Hooker :)

From the latest Blue Glass

I'm already an old fan of Vidro Azul (Blue Glass) radio shows. The latest one ended like this. So beautiful.

Gouge Away and Gut Feeling

go so well one after the other :D

Polly Jean at Tiny Desk

what a treasure

Songs: I Inside the Old I Dying, A Noiseless Noise, A Child's Question, August, I Inside the Old Year Dying, White Chalk.

Kings of Maybe, 15 years

This blog started 15 years ago with a couple of friends from music forums before social media as known a few years later. And quickly many other friends joined this blog, in total we were 15 members. Our target was to share mostly unknown or little known music. And only good taste was admissible. Then, Facebook and other social networking became more attractive until it became too polluted as most of the web nowadays, keeping people away from this kind of relationship. 
Anyway, this blog has a great audience, the reason why it is alive after 15 years. Thank you so much.
The name of this blog comes from an expression from Peter Gabriel in a Genesis song. Let's watch them again. 

Missing António Sérgio for 14 years

António Sérgio, one of the best radio directors ever, left us precisely 14 years ago. We miss him every day.
Let us remember him with one of his (many) favorite songs, India by the Psychedelic Furs.