Mastodawn

Hey beautiful #fortnightfridaymusic & #alternatefridaymusic people 🎉

We're running low on words and need another 40 to see the year out. We all seem to thrive on prompts, so if everyone can give me one word, _one word only_, for each prompt, we'll be set for the year.

**Fortnight Friday Music**
The cue is:

> **evocative**

Share with us the most emotionally evocative word you can think think of, the one that resonates with you the most, and I'll add it to the list.

**Alternate Friday Music**
The cue is:

> **visceral**

Share the word that gives you the most visceral reaction.

Boost far and wide, I'll keep adding suggestions to the list until we're satiated.

@Bishopjoey @dgar @electric_gumball @stormygleason @fc

krejgo Mar 14

Somewhere on the #Fediverse, people are prompting other people to share the songs they love #alternateFridayMusic #water

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9gktUV6U40fPR25EFQG6815PBvoyOw7h

The rain has driven me inside on a Saturday so you get this playlist early 🎉

The most interesting inclusion is John Farnham's 1988 daggy pop hit Two Strong Hearts which has become a protest song this week as it contains lyrics now banned by a corrupt political party in Queensland, Australia.

A bumper 23 unique songs made into my feed for this week and it's another brilliant, eclectic collection. Unfortunately I couldn't find videos for 4 of the tracks, so we only have 19.

If I've missed your song or you know of a video I've missed, let me know.

Have a great weekend beautiful people 😀

@fc @stormygleason @electric_gumball @dgar @Bishopjoey @Wintergr33n @alicemcalicepants @aspeed @DroidZOR @that_other_place @krejgo @RadicalSocialWorker @cloudedjudge @alfvaen @MISM

Aaron V. Humphrey Mar 14

#AlternateFridayMusic for March 13 2026 the word is "Water"

Artist: Brian Eno
Album: Before And After Science (1977)
Song: Backwater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YitVQuOBuLc

My brother got me into Brian Eno when I was in university. While I do like the occasional ambient stuff from time to time, though, I am a much bigger fan of the albums where he actually sings. "Taking Tiger Mountain" is my favourite, but I also love this track from "Before And After Science". I'm not entirely sure what it's talking about, but it's fine to sing stuff like "If you study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics". But it's much more realistic to abandon such ballistics.

#music #BrianEno

Brian Eno - Backwater

YouTube

MISM Mar 13

#AlternateFridayMusic
March 13 2026
The word is #water

"Cool Water" is a song written in 1936 by Bob Nolan. It is about a parched man and his mule traveling a wasteland tormented by mirages. This version is sung by Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson from Mitchell’s 1988 album Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm.

https://youtu.be/-dBymrfhYI8?si=VWWXJt26k82cEoxD

Joni Mitchell - Cool Water (With Willie Nelson)

YouTube

Brian Gettler Mar 13

I _love_ this song. It's way up near the top of my list of best John K. Samson songs (which is really saying something).

Weakerthans, "Watermark" (2000)

https://theweakerthans.bandcamp.com/track/watermark

#AlternateFridayMusic #Water

Watermark, by The Weakerthans

from the album Left and Leaving

The Weakerthans

a/k/a ginger 🍵...🎶🌻Mar 13

Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) / Dolly Parton

I've long been fascinated by this song. Hearing the crack of the whip is 😬 but I admire the way Dolly can tell a story.

(This song is only related to water in a relatively minor way, but I've been listening to another song about a mule, which made me think of this one.)
(Edit: It just occurred to me that this song can do double duty with the other Friday hashtag game I'm playing.)

Well, good morning, captain
Good morning to you, sir, hey, hey, yeah
Do you need another mule skinner
Down on your new mud run? Hey, hey, yeah

[Refrain]
Yodel-a-ee, he-he
He-he, he-he, he-he

I'm a lady mule skinner
From down old Tennessee way, hey, hey, I come from Tennessee
I can make any mule listen
Or I won't accept your pay, hey, hey, I won't take your pay

[Refrain]

Well, hey, hey, little water boy
Won't you bring your water 'round, hey, hey
If you don't like your job
Well, you can throw your bucket down, throw it down, boy, throw it down

[Refrain]

Well, I've been working down in Georgia
At a greasy spoon café, hey, been working in Georgia
Just to let a no-good man
Draw every cent of my pay, hey, hey
And I'm sick of it, I wanna be a mule skinner

[Refrain]
[Refrain]
Mule skinner blues

#AlternateFridayMusic #Water
#JukeboxFridayNight #WhenTimesAreTough

https://song.link/qxprhz48dmfbq

Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) by Dolly Parton

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a/k/a ginger 🍵...🎶🌻Mar 13

The Erie Canal Song / Ed Meeker (1913) and Vernon Dalhart (1929)

As a young child, I learned to play this song on the piano. I just listened to half a dozen versions of it; it was interesting to see the variations. Every version I've ever heard has said "fifteen miles" -- but this one, which was supposedly the original recording, says "fifteen years."

#AlternateFridayMusic
#Water

https://song.link/kgm3h90hbfcjk

Erie Canal Song Lyrics - all five original verses and choruses! by Dave Ruch

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