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[snip] Joey Cook is back! Check out what we did with Cage The Elephant's "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" from Borderland, also starring clarinetist Jacob Scesney doing a bit of decorating. [/snip]Ain't No Rest For The WickedVintage Jazz | Cage The Elephant Cover ft. Joey CookPostmodernJukebox | 5.86M subscribers7,366,351 views | January 12, 2017

'British rock guitarist Alvin Lee, a member of the band Ten Years After, has died aged 68. His family announced on his official website that he unexpectedly died on 6 March following complications during routine surgery. The Nottingham-born musician rose to fame after appearing at the Woodstock festival in 1969. The band, who had eight Top 40 albums in the UK, had their biggest hit in 1971 with I'd Love To Change the World. "We have lost a wonderful and much loved father and companion, the world has lost a truly great and gifted musician," said the statement from his...

A Space in Time was Ten Years After's best-selling album. This was due primarily to the strength of "I'd Love to Change the World," the band's only hit single, and one of the most ubiquitous AM and FM radio cuts of the summer of 1971. TYA's first album for Columbia, A Space in Time has more of a pop-oriented feel than any of their previous releases had. The individual cuts are shorter, and Alvin Lee displays a broader instrumental palette than before. In fact, six of the disc's ten songs are built around acoustic guitar riffs. However, there are still...

Al Jazeera had a prominent sign near the podium at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Now it's gone, and the Arab news network is wondering why convention officials had it removed.Al-Jazeera, criticized in the West for percieved Anti-American slant, isn't charging convention officials with bias. 'We think this is a matter they just didn't handle well,' spokeswoman Stephanie Thomas said. Still, she says, 'I don't think anyone would deny that the Al-Jazeera logo and name are not a part of John Kerry's communications plan.'The Al Jazeera sign, with its name and logo, would have been part of the network backdrop...