Amie Street Music Wednesday #22
Technorati Tags: amie street, grandmother, Marina V, music wednesdayI know that it has only been about 6 weeks, well maybe a little more but who is counting, sense I posted about Marina V. Well I’m back to post about her again. I checked up on some of the artist that I bought music from and she has released a new album. So today we have going to feature a song from her new album.
I’m listening though it while writing this and I’m having trouble deciding on what should I should pick. Her voice is amazing. As some of you know, my grandmother passed away recently, so to day in honor of her, just like Marina V is honoring hers, here is the song ??????? or GRANDMOTHER.
Of course my grandmother didn’t braid my hair. She was there for me a lot. She was a strong woman, a rock, and a corner stone of our family. She was the sweetest person anyone could ever meet. She would even bake me biscuits at 5am. What an inspiration.
If you enjoy this music please contribute to the artist. I use Amie Street because they allow me to port my music to different devices. In fact I don’t buy music unless it is though Amie Street now. So enjoy and let the artist know that you enjoy their work and contributions.
loosely translated from Marina V’s site
Grandmother, grandmother
I wonder where you are these days
Are you looking down at me from the sky?
My dear grandmother,
give me some of your strength & wisdom in my darkest hour
Braid my hair like you used to
Calm me down with your voice, and make everything alright again
Grandmother, grandmother
I wonder where you are these days
Are you looking down at me from the sky?
My dear grandmother,
share your strength & wisdom with your granddaughter in her darkest hour
Sit me down on your lap like you used to
And calm me down with your singing, and make everything alright again
And if heaven exists, would you please smile at me from up there,
And carry me away to a place where life is always at dawn
Where we are never apart
Please take me there,
even for just one moment.
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
What wordpress plugin are you using for this? I would like to start doing this for my blog.
Cheers.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
It’s a great meme. I’ve discovered so many cool bands that I would never have otherwise have heard by doing it.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Husar: you can get the plugin here. Right now I do not have the plugin registered with WordPress, So all updates will have to be done manually. You can also visit the ASMW website. There updates are posted as they come out and you can also see what other ASMW peoples are doing.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I did look at the plugins at ASMW but your version looks so much better. Is the plugin on this page a different version?
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
The new 2.2 plugin is what is running on this page. This plugin was made for ASMW by Lucas @ Amie Street. The old plugin you can see it in some of the older post is included with v2.2.
V1.x was just using the bottom part. Refer to old post and look at the bottom part of the message. like here
v2.2 is what you see here. It does include the bottom part of the message if you wish to include that in your post.
[songid] then what you wish to say
(optional)[asmw]
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
oh one other thing. in the link above the player was entered in manually from Amie Street’s site, from the promote artist link.
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Are you talking about the Background color?
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Excellent. Keep an eye on my blog to see who I start featuring on Wednesdays. Cheers.
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Hells ya husar. Thanks for contributing.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
One last thing. I have it working but no luck setting the color options in the asmw_color.php file. I have tried each and everyone by uncommenting them one at a time and not matter what it is always the blue Amie color. Any ideas?
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Husar:
There is a reason behind this. And it is the only reason that I can think of.
when you do [songid], what happens is [songid] gets replaced by code in the ASMW plugin. So when you bring the page back up in the editor you will have something else in its place.
What you need to look for is skin=mouseclone&songId and you will want to replace mouseclone or what ever else you have with one of the ones from the asmw_color.php file.
Try this. Delete the code that get put into your post. between the < div > and < /div >. Then make sure you only have 1 color uncommented. Then [songid] back into the post. This should be what ever color you picked.
Rember. [songid] gets replaced with code from the plugin before it goes into your database. This means that one week you can have one color and another week something different. It is done this way in case you change themes and would like to use another color going forward, or just you just want something different.
Let me know if this helps.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Yep, that is it. Just need to enter the code each time to reflect the color change.
Thanks!
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:27 am
Glad it worked for you. I look forward to hearing your selection.