By Keefer
Apr 20, 2021
In no particular order, a list of some of the best songs celebrating marijuana. Thanks to High Times, Rolling Stone, Udiscovermusic, and my own music collection.
Fats Waller: ‘If You’re A Viper’
Perhaps the earliest, coolest (and most famous) reefer song in jazz, this was originated by gypsy-jazz violinist Stuff Smith in 1937 and was later cut by a host of others, most famously (though a female singer, Rosetta Howard, did it before him). Everybody shared the dream of “a reefer five feet long”, but only The Manhattan Transfer version (on their very first album, Jukin’, kept Smith’s wording of the title: ‘If you’se A Viper’.
by Steve Newton on April 17th, 2021 at 6:37 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
Remember concerts?
Thirty years ago today on April 17, 1991 Neil Young and Crazy Horse played the Pacific Coliseum on the Smell the Horse Tour, with guests Drivin n Cryin and Sonic Youth.
Maybe you were there?
To jog your memory, here s my review, which was published in the April 25, 1991 issue of the Georgia Straight
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This one s going out to Nardwuar. Hope he gets his Neil Young interview one day.
The chameleon-like Neil Young has travelled through a kaleidoscope of musical styles over the years, switching effortlessly (and with varying degrees of success) between acoustic folk, bare-bones country, futuristic techno-bop, rockabilly, and whatever else happened to pique his interest at the time.
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Mary J. Blige, Gina Rodriguez, Jake Johnson Among Six Cast in Netflix Hybrid Series Lost Ollie
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Netflix has set an all-star cast for the animation-live action hybrid limited series “Lost Ollie.”
Mary J. Blige, Gina Rodriguez, Jake Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Kesler Talbot, and Jonathan Groff have all been cast in major roles in the four-episode series.
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The show is inspired by the book “Ollie’s Oddyssey” by William Joyce. It follows a lost toy on an epic adventure, searching across the country for the boy who lost him, and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend.