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Years after Sam was reveling in his newfound Pride, I was still searching for my Budd.

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Harold Budd's Music Was Heaven On Earth

The ambient composer and Brian Eno collaborator died this week at the age of 84 from complications brought on by COVID-19.
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Despite this proclivity for building artistic relationships based in mutual trust and warm friendship, Budd primarily steered a lone course. Alongside the pair of Eno projects, the characteristic core of his work are the solo records, albums like Abandoned Cities, Lovely Thunder, The White Arcades and Luxa. These are records that not only refute the idea that artists ought to develop, they in some profound way challenge the idea of progress itself, hinting that the true goal of art is to achieve suspension from time altogether.
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Although its aura is ethereal and unworldly, Budd's music is actually an exemplary form of humanly useful music. When the mundane urgencies of life, or the nonsense of our political culture, get you frazzled, which is pretty much every day these days, you can put on this music and imbibe its stillness and grace. His records are exactly the kind of music you'd play for calm and solace during a bereavement — or at a service sending someone to their final resting place. Harold Budd sounds like heaven on earth.
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I would show you a photo of late-1930s-to-40s Victorville, where Harold lived as a youth, if I can find any.

Oh, here are a couple.

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Victorville, looking North toward Bell Mountain


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Seventh Street, Victorville

As a wise man once thought to himself, "It's hard to know where Victorville ends and Apple Valley begins."
 
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Tony Rice passes - Bluegrass Today

We have just learned of the passing of Tony Rice, surely the most important and influential guitarist in the history of bluegrass music.
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Tony's resume shows that he was the "go to" guitarist for innumerable innovators in all musical styles. David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs, Chris Hillman, J.D. Crowe, Norman Blake and David Rowan all tapped Tony for groundbreaking projects. And his own Tony Rice Unit released seven outstanding albums over a span of four decades. Health problems in later years robbed Tony first of his voice and then his ability to play but he remained a much beloved, legendary figure in the acoustic music world.

If you’re not familiar with Tony’s music, Manzanita, the second album by the Tony Rice Unit is a great place to start:


Here’s his moving cover of Ian Tyson’s “Summer Wages” from American Music Shop:

 
Ojai Sam said:
Truly a wasted talent. One account says he died of COVID. :(:(
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My son and I had an interesting conversation about separating the art from the artist. Could never sacrifice my Wall of Sound collection or his Christmas album - just try not to think to hard about Phil the person

By the way, is it too soon to break out my old Fat Albert cartoons and I Started Out Life as a Child album? :oops:
 
Zeeba Neighba said:
My son and I had an interesting conversation about separating the art from the artist. Could never sacrifice my Wall of Sound collection or his Christmas album - just try not to think to hard about Phil the person

By the way, is it too soon to break out my old Fat Albert cartoons and I Started Out Life as a Child album? :oops:
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I feel your pain, Zeeb. I can detach Phil from the Wall fairly easily because he doesn't sing. I was in the middle of a Cosby listening project when doom struck. I still can't enjoy his work, recorded or televised. :(
 
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