This week’s selections are two live performances from Canadian artists, Allison Crowe and k.d. lang.
The first video is a performance by Allison Crowe of River by Joni Mitchell. It is part of a yearly broadcast that she produce.
The second video is a recording of k.d. lang performing Leonard Cohen’s Bird on a Wire. The performance took place at the Sydney Opera House. It was part of her Hymns of the 49th Parallel album tour. The performance was broadcast on the show The Max Sessions on the Australian station MaxTV.
Quite frequently I run across music videos on YouTube, AOL Music, Yahoo! Music and other places done by artists that I really like. This week I am going to begin a new feature on arfore.com – Music Video Friday.
Corinne Bailey Rae singing Like A Star from her self-titled album.
Gary Jules performing his cover of the Tears for Fears song Mad World live on SWR3 Ringfrei.
Do you ever use a phrase that you heard growing up as a child that no one else around you understands? Frequently I find myself having to explain the meaning behind a phrase to my student assistants.
One of the latest ones is the phrase bar pit.
Now, I don’t recall whether I heard this from my parents or someone else growing up, but the explanation is quite simple. And the explanation itself includes a colloquial corruption of a word as well.
Often when you are driving down the highway, at least in South Georgia, you will see large tracts of land where large pit have been created by removing dirt for DOT projects.
These are the bar pits and this term comes from the fact that it is a pit where they are barrying the dirt from. Now the word barry is itself a corruption of the word borrow.