Not your mother's White Rabbit

Whew!  Grace Potter and the Nocturnals' "White Rabbit" is a white hot version of Jefferson's Airplane 1960s Singer Grace Potter of Grace Potter and the Nocturnalspsychadelic tune.  You can find lots of YouTube versions as the group played the song all over last summer at places like the Gathering of the Vibes.  And it's on the Almost Alice soundtrack for the new Alice in Wonderland film.  Here are two video versions by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals: the group's video for the Almost Alice soundtrack as shown on Amazon and one from the Deep Roots festival in Georgia .

By the way, the Dormouse never said, "Feed your head."  That myth was part of the 1960s fascination with Alice in Wonderland that put a psychadelic spin on the book.  The Caterpillar does smoke a Hookah.  But there's no documentation that Carroll ever used drugs. He may have occassionally drunk red wine. And LSD was developed a century after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published.

The White Rabbit continues to be late in the new Alice in Wonderland

Remembering Kate McGarrigle

Sad to learn that Kate McGarrigle recently died of cancer.  She and her sister Anna released many beautiful albums.  We saw them once in concert in Boston where they were also with another sister who sang with them.  They were funnier than I thought they would be -- silly, ironic, whimsical, and of course they all sounded amazing. 

Still on heavy rotation: "Heart Like a Wheel," " NaCl," "Talk to Me of Mendocino," "I Eat Dinner," "Heartbeats Accelerating."

For awhile she was married to Loudon Wainwright III, which I wrote about earlier, and their children Martha and Rufus are great singer-songwriters on their own.  Their McGarrigle House Christmas Album features all of them and, like every McGarrigle Sisters album, is wonderful to listen to.