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Music to your gears: Artist uses New York traffic to create musical notes
An artist from Brazil has turned cars driving down a New York highway into a musical notes to compose a song that follows the flow of traffic. For his latest musical arrangement, titled âCars on the Lanes,â Jarbas Agnelli used a video of one section of a New York City freeway, and assigned musical notes to cars [âŚ]
September 29, 2015
Roadbuilding
Country music star Kip Mooreâs ballad for the construction industry
Kip Moore has penned his share of hits, most notably the platinum-selling âSomethinâ âBout a Truckâ which reached number 1 on the U.S. country charts. And now the country star has dedicated a song to the men and women of the construction industry as well as Case Construction Equipment. The song is called âOn the [âŚ]
September 1, 2014
Construction Equipment
Country music star Kip Moore wrote a rocking Labor Day ballad for the construction industry
Kip Moore has penned his share of hits, most notably the platinum-selling âSomethinâ âBout a Truckâ which reached number 1 on the U.S. country charts. And now the country star has dedicated a song to the men and women of the construction industry as well as Case Construction Equipment. The song is called âOn the [âŚ]
August 28, 2014
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Parody master Weird Alâs âHandyâ music video is an ode to craftsmen everywhere
Earlier this week, musician âWeird Alâ Yankovic, famous for his parodies of pop songs, released his 14th album called Mandatory Fun. Part of the album release has been Alâs ambitious project of releasing eight music videos for the album over eight days. Yesterday morning, Al released the video for the song âHandy,â a parody of the [âŚ]
July 18, 2014
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Backhoes, skid steers, telehandlers wheelie and waltz with rock violinists
Known as the âdown-to-earth version of the Blue Angels,â JCBâs Dancing Diggers arenât ones to turn down a big show. Let alone the largest trade show in the U.S. The team of backhoes, skid steers and telehandlers was in full force at ConExpo 2014 and performed with a rock violin group. In the end, we [âŚ]
March 7, 2014
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Friday 5:05: Don Ross, âUpright and Locked Positionâ
This isnât exactly rock and roll, but it has a nice, cruising-down-the-road-gonna-see-my-baby- tonight feel to it, which is what Friday 5:05 is all about. Definitely Michael Hedges inspired. I found it on a Facebook site called Minor 7th. Worth checking out if youâre an acoustic guitar fan. Have a great weekend. [youtube 3zIdSUoF8H8 nolink]
January 18, 2013
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Friday 5:05: Elvis, âThatâs Alright Mamaâ
Welcome to the Friday 5:05. Each Friday at precisely 5:05 p.m., Executive Editor Tom Jackson serves up a new jam to get your weekend started. You canât go wrong with the King. Elvis, was born this week in 1935. Three chords and a turnaround. Music was never the same after that. [youtube Z5gTBEci9wM nolink]
January 11, 2013
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Friday 5:05: Tony Rice, âShady Groveâ
If this doesnât set your feet to tappinâ call the undertaker. Two hundred years ago in England this song was an angry, depressing screed. It was called Mattieâs Grove then. But our forefathers brought the melody with them over the Atlantic, lost the negativity and turned it into a wonderful, upbeat song about a young [âŚ]
January 4, 2013
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Friday 5:05: The Landfill Orchestra
With all the doom of schoolhouse shootings and the gloom of the Mayan apocalypse deferred, perhaps we should end this year and begin the new one on a positive note:  A Paraguayan childrensâ orchestra built from materials scavenged at the landfill. If next year the rest of the world blows itself to kingdom come, I [âŚ]
December 28, 2012
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Comic, musician pens construction rock record
When a contractor tells me âyouâve got listen to this,â well, I do. Alisa Bennett, of Bennett Contracting, one of our 2012 Contractor of the Year finalists, is talking about Carmen Ciricilloâs newest venture. Ciricillo â who has transformed a passion for construction into a comedy routine and a contractor seminar service â now has [âŚ]
December 21, 2012
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Friday 5:05: Pat Metheny, âPhase Danceâ
You gotta hand it to a guy who plays so hard he has to put his guitar in a clamp stand. But thatâs what Pat Metheny is doing here at the beginning of this video from 1977. That would have been the first year he ventured out on his own with the Pat Metheny Group, [âŚ]
December 14, 2012
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Friday 5:05: Dave Brubeck, RIP
Welcome to the Friday 5:05. Each Friday at precisely 5:05 p.m., Executive Editor Tom Jackson serves up a new jam to get your weekend started. We depart from our usual Friday barnstormer music to pay tribute to Dave Brubeck who died this week at the age of 91. Jazz got a little crazy in the [âŚ]
December 7, 2012
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