The expression _to grease someone's palm_ has its roots in ancient Rome, when Pliny the Younger referred to unguentarium, which translates as “ointment money.” Related phrases are greases someone's palm, greased someone's palm, greasing someone's palm. - internet machine

"The band, according to wiki was a Canadian-British hard rock power trio that was active in the early 1970s. Bass, Vocals - Reid Hudson Drums, Vibraphone, Percussion - Tony Newman Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Vocals - James Black This is their first of three studio releases. "

"aka Wilfred Gerald Edwards was a prolific Jamaican born songwriter & musician, one of 14 children. Influenced heavily by Nat King Cole. "

This unknown child opens the first cut on Rainey's debut release. Rainey was born in Minneapolis, a Native hub, he has been putting pow wows to tape since he was 8 years old. “Being a recorder at the pow wow got me wanting to learn,” he says. (He maintains an extensive archive of these recordings on SoundCloud.) His mother encouraged his education, signing him up for drum and dance activities, and his entry into the world of inter-tribal social gatherings was fostered by Minneapolis’ flourishing Native community. - Pitchfork

"Counter tenor Scholl with Tamar Halperin, piano. Lyrics: Wheels turn, clatter, noise Steel tracks getting warm Turn and run to the East Hide, but pray to the beast All my hearts are alive All my hope, deep inside Hats in front, knives behind West is lost White and black turns the earth I hope to know and feel safe One day"

"Recorded in 1971, titled Masques "

She is a Hungarian singer & actress.

Jacobs appears to be the name of someone who offers on-line vocal training via a website and YouTube videos. This is excerpted from a standard warm-up exercise for singers.

"aka Clara Ann Fowler was born into a large and poor family of 11 children (3 boys and 8 girls). Her father, B.A. Fowler, worked on the MKT railroad, while her mother, Margaret, and older sisters picked cotton. As she recalled on television many years later, the family lived without electricity, so she could not read after dark...her break came in 1951, wiht a cover of Would I Love You (Love You, Love You), which had been a hit for Doris Day. See link at 19:38"

"_Old Lisbon_ became a hit in the United States when recorded by the Nelson Riddle orchestra in 1956. It was brought to Riddle's attention by Nat King Cole's manager who had heard a version played by an orchestra in Mexico. The recording topped the Billboard magazine chart on February 25, 1956 and remained there for four weeks. -- wiki"

"Luie is a Southern California screenwriter, painter, and musician who has spent the past 30 years working in almost complete obscurity. He's also written and starred in a feature film and has shaken hands with Elvis Presley. Luie has been playing live at various restaurants, lounges, and country clubs for three decades and is still going strong. He has released a handful of 45s during the '70s and one full-length LP, _Touchy_ in 1974. -- discogs"

"This is the 12th studio album for Cohen, becoming his most popular in the US. Cohen's international concert tours of the late 2000s were prompted by the fact that his former manager made off with his life's savings. THe manager, Kelley Lynch (Cohen's next door neighbor in Montreal and briefly his lover) was sentenced to 18 months in prison). When he concluded his tour in 2009, Cohen decided to keep working and began making his twelfth studio album.Sharon Robinson joins him on vocals. - wiki"

From Guelph, Ontario (same town as Jane Siberry), Petric is an innovative performer with a career defined by championing a wide reaching repertoire for the instrument. He is also celebrated for his technique. From wiki- Petric’s approach creates a unique sound that has subtle colouristic and expressive devices like vibrato, which is an innovation in accordion performance, This holistic approach is foundational for his delivery of diverse musical languages and accordion repertoire in the contemporary concert hall.

This is the band's 3rd studio release.The group formed in Nottingham in 1991. They released six albums before singer Stuart A. Staples embarked on a solo career. - wiki

Dubbed _Ohio Jazz_ Bass: Joe Schmalz, Drums – Ed Knill, Piano – Al Waslon Very little to no information available on internet re: Waslon. He made a recording in 1985 with Johnny Hodges and Charlie Shavers.

Flora' Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered _one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature_,and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on _the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death (by suicide at age 36) - wiki

In his youth, the Hungarian-born Solti studied piano with Béla Bartók. He had a particular care for the music of Wagner. He served as music director of the Chicago Symphony between 1969 and 1991 and remained the orchestra’s “Music Director Laureate” until his death in 1997. See link to watch his fantastic & precise conducting technique in rehearsal with the Vienna Phil. It's Wagner's Funeral Music to Siegfried. Notes the Wagerian brass, expansive french horn section. Exacetly one woman, playing harp.

The album compiles the soundtrack music scored by the band to six films by French filmmaker Claire Denis. This creative partnership began in 1996 when Denis approached the band about using the song _My Sister_ from the second Tindersticks album in the film she was scripting, Nénette et Boni. Singer Stuart A. Staples liked the idea, but suggested Tindersticks write something original for the film instead. - wiki