On this day in music history - Sacred Heart, by Shakespear’s Sister (1989):

Sacred Heart

Album by Shakespear’s Sister,

released August 21, 1989.

Track list:

Heroine; Run Silent Run Deep; Dirty Mind; Sacred Heart; Heaven Is in Your Arms; Twist the Knife; You’re History; Break My Heart; Red Rocket; Electric Moon; Primitive Love; Could You Be Loved; You Made Me Come to This.

On this day in music history - Queen Of Baroque by Cecilia Bartoli (2020):

Queen Of Baroque

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

was released on August 14, 2020.

Track list:

And The honor Tyrant Star; How much I envy... those who live as lovers; Let me weep; I am like a ship; Stabat Mater Dolorosa (Feat. June Anderson); Agitated by two Twenty; Serene, O my beautiful sun... My Flame... (Feat. Philippe Jaroussky); Warm Blood; Shadow never was; Aure vai e baciate (feat. sol gabetta); Oh, you beautiful God of love... Where is my good?; Eja Mater, Fons Amoris... Fac, Ut Ardeat... Sancta Mater... Tui Nati, Vulnerati (Feat. Franco Fagioli and Behle); Go repentant to cry; Unlock yourselves, O gates of Avernus; I leave you, dear; Combatton Quest'alma (Feat. Philippe Jaroussky); Nice pleasure.

On this day in music history:

Crossing the Stone by Catrin Finch (2003)

Close Your Eyes by Amy Lauren (2011)

Crossing the Stone

Album by Catrin Finch,

released August 12, 2003.

Track list: Mountain Dance; Harpers Bizarre; James; Over the Stone (Tros y Garreg), concerto for 2 harps & orchestra; Crossing the Stone (Tros y Garreg); Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006; Prelude / Johann Sebastian Bach; Electric Counterpoint, for electric guitar, bass guitar & tape; 3rd movement; Over the Stone (Tros y Garreg), concerto for 2 harps & orchestra; Eternal Dream; Solomon, oratorio, HWV 67; The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba / George Frederick Handel; Over the Stone (Tros y Garreg), concerto for 2 harps & orchestra; Café Vamp Latino; Spain, for voice & ensemble; Buenos Aires hora cero (Zero Hour), tango; Clair de lune, for orchestra or other arrangement (from “Suite Bergamasque” for piano), L. 75/3 / Claude Debussy; Meditation on Prelude No. 1 of Bach, for violin or cello & piano with organ or cello ad lib. (or other instrumental arrangement) / Johann Sebastian Bach / Charles Gounod; Thingamujig; Suo Gân (Lullaby), song / Traditional / Welsh Traditional; Palladio, for string orchestra (or band); 1st movement (Dance mix version).

Close Your Eyes

Album by Amy Lauren,

released August 12, 2011.

Track list: A Mother’s Prayer; Bed of Stars; Calm Is the Night; I’m Right Here; Drifting Starlight; Angels Are Sleeping; Nighttime Falls; Midnight Song; Search the Stars; When You Sleep; Close Your Eyes; Goodnight.

Born on this day – Gladys Bentley:

Gladys Bentley

Blues singer

Pianist

August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960

Credits:

Songs:

Before Midnight; Big Gorilla Man; Boogie Woogie Cue; Boogie'n My Woogie; Find out What He Likes; Fourth of July Boogie; Give It Up; Ground Hog Blues; How Long, How Long Blues; How Much Can I Stand; It Went to the Girl Next Door; Jingle Jangle Jump; June-Teeth Jamboree; Lay it on the Line; Lay It on the Line for Father; Moanful Wailin' Blues; Moanful Walkin' Blues; Red Beans And Rice; Red Beans and Rice Blues; Wild Geese Blues; Worried Blues.

Movies and television:

Before Stonewall (1984); Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (2024); Shirley (2020); You Bet Your Life (1958).

On this day in music history - First Dance (2011):

First Dance

Album by Amy Lauren,

released August 11, 2011.

Track list:

Just for Tonight; I Believe; Emerald Mist; Beginning Now; Louisa’s Song; Inspirations; Candlelight; The Processional; First Dance; Can You Hear Me; Search the Stars.

On this day in music history - Phobia, by Breaking Benjamin (2006):

Phobia

Album by Breaking Benjamin,

released August 8, 2006.

Track list:

Disc 1: Intro; Diary of Jane; Breath; You; Evil Angel; Until the End; Dance with the Devil; Topless; Here We Are; Unknown Soldier; Had Enough; You Fight Me; Outro; Diary of Jane (Version); (CD-ROM Track). / Disc 2: Polyamorous (DVD); Home (DVD); Shallow Bay (DVD); Breakdown (DVD); Topless (DVD); Away (DVD); Diary of Jane (DVD); Dance with the Devil (DVD); Until the End (DVD); Had Enough (DVD); Sooner or Later (DVD); Break My Fall (DVD); So Cold (DVD); Breath (DVD); Evil Angel (DVD).

On this day in music history - Blaze of Glory, by Jon Bon Jovi (1990):

Blaze of Glory

Album by Jon Bon Jovi,

released August 7, 1990.

Inspired by the movie Young Guns II (1990).

Track list:

Billy Get Your Guns; Miracle; Blaze of Glory; Blood Money; Santa Fe; Justice in the Barrel; Never Say Die; You Really Got Me Now; Bang a Drum; Dyin’ Ain’t Much of a Livin’; Guano City.

On this day in music history - Rain, by Madonna (1993):

The song Rain,

by Madonna,

was released on August 5, 1993.

On this day in music history - Diesel and Dust, by Midnight Oil (1987):

Diesel and Dust

Album by Midnight Oil,

released August 2, 1987.

Track list:

Beds Are Burning; Put Down That Weapon; Dreamworld; Arctic World; Warakurna; The Dead Heart; Whoah; Bullroarer; Sell My Soul; Sometimes; Gunbarrel Highway.

On this day in music history - Aeterna, by Constance Demby (1995):

Aeterna

Album by Constance Demby,

released July 28, 1995.

Track list:

The Dawning; Ocean Without Shores; Innocence: Starfields / Innocence/Beloved; Cry of the Heart; Eternal Return: Unfolding / Enfolding / Return; Rites of Passage: Remembrance / The Calling / Serenity.

On this day in music history - Strauss: Four Last Songs, by Renée Fleming (2008):

Strauss: Four Last Songs

Album by Renée Fleming,

was released on July 24, 2008.

Track list:

Frühling; September; Beim Schlafengehen; Im Abendrot; Ach! Wo war ich? Tot? ...; Ein Schönes war; Es gibt ein Reich; Verführung, op. 33 no. 1; Freundliche Vision, op. 48 no. 1; Winterweihe, op. 48 no. 4; Zueignung, op. 10 no. 1; Zweite Brautnacht!; Eugene Onegin--Letter Scene; Rusalka--Song to the Moon; Otello--Willow Song...Ave Maria; Thaïs--Ah! Je suis seule...Dis-moi que je suis belle; Capriccio--Moonlight Music & Final Scene.

On this day in music history - Butterfly, by Natalie Merchant (2017):

Butterfly

Album by Natalie Merchant,
released July 14, 2017.

Track list:

Butterfly; She Devil; Baby Mine; Frozen Charlotte; Ophelia; The Worst Thing; The Man in the Wilderness; My Skin; Vain & Careless; Andalucia.

On this day in music history - Idle Hours, by Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey (1961):

Idle Hours

Album by Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey,

recorded July 13, 1961.

Track list:

Darling I Miss You So; Long Time Blues; You Are My Life; Or Yes, Baby; Please Baby; Leave Me or Love Me; Idle Hours; You Have No Love in Your Heart; Good Luck Darling; No More Cryin’; I Got the Blues So Bad 6. End It All.

On this day in music history - Cloudwalker & the Ascent, by Zero Ohms (2022):

Cloudwalker & the Ascent

Album by Zero Ohms,
released June 24, 2022.

Credits:

Cloudwalker and the Ascent; Unknownland; Vistas Beyond; Tum Gaon (ascending to higher places); Skybound (free from terrestrial bonds); Deep Sky Tones; Across the Seven Skies.

June 21 – World Music Day:

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

- Ludwig van Beethoven.

Music was my refuge.
I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

- Maya Angelou.

Life would be flat without music.
It is the background to all I do.
It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

- Ludwig van Beethoven.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

- Confucius.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

- John Logan.

If music be the food of love, play on.

- William Shakespeare.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space,

and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

- Kate Bush.

Music can change the world.

- Ludwig van Beethoven.

On this day in music history - Mirage, by Fleetwood Mac (1982):

Mirage

Album by Fleetwood Mac,

released June 18, 1982.

Track list:

Love in Store (2016 Remaster); Can’t Go Back (2016 Remaster); That’s Alright (2016 Remaster); Book of Love (2016 Remaster); Gypsy (2016 Remaster); Only over You (2016 Remaster); Empire State (2016 Remaster); Straight Back (2016 Remaster); Hold Me (2016 Remaster); Oh Diane (2016 Remaster); Eyes of the World (2016 Remaster); Wish You Were Here (2016 Remaster); Love in Store (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Suma’s Walk a.k.a. Can’t Go Back (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; That’s Alright (Alternate Take) [2016 Remaster]; Book of Love (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Gypsy (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Only over You (Alternate Version) [2016 Remaster]; Empire State (Early Version); If You Were My Love (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Hold Me (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Oh Diane (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Smile at You (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Goodbye Angel (Original Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Eyes of the World (Alternate Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Straight Back (2016 Remaster); Wish You Were Here (Alternate Version) [2016 Remaster]; Cool Water (2016 Remaster); Gypsy (2016 Remaster); Put a Candle in the Window (2016 Remaster); Teen Beat (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Blue Monday (Jam) [2016 Remaster].

On this day in music history:

Destination Anywhere by Jon Bon Jovi (1997)

Not That Kind by Anastacia (2000)

Destination Anywhere

Album by Jon Bon Jovi,

released June 16, 1997.

Track listing (some versions of this album include two bonus tracks):

Queen of New Orleans; Janie, Don’t Take Your Love to Town; Midnight in Chelsea; Ugly; Staring at Your Window with a Suitcase in My Hand; Every Word Was a Piece of My Heart; It’s Just Me; Destination Anywhere; Learning How to Fall; Naked; Little City; August 7, 4:15; Cold Hard Heart; Cold Hard Heart (Demo); I Talk to Jesus (Demo).

Not That Kind

Album by Anastacia,

released June 16, 2000.

Track list:

Not That Kind; I’m Outta Love; Cowboys & Kisses; Why’d You Lie to Me; Who’s Gonna Stop the Rain; I Ask of You; Don’tcha Wanna; Late Last Night; Made For Lovin’ You; Black Roses; Yo Trippin’; One More Chance; Same Old Story.

On this day in music history: Big City Blues, by Sue Foley (1995):

Big City Blues

Album by Sue Foley,

released June 15, 1995.

Track list:

Big City Blues; Howlin’ For My Darlin’; To Be Alone With You; One Hundred Dollar Bill; Ain’t Gonna Worry No More; This Time; As Long As I Have You; Highway Bound; If You Gotta Go; My Baby’s Sweeter; Girl’s Night Out.

On this day in music history - Crush, by Bon Jovi (2000):

Crush

Album by Bon Jovi,

released June 13, 2000.

Track list:

It’s My Life; Say It Isn’t So; Thank You for Loving Me; Two Story Town; Next 100 Years; Just Older; Save the World; She’s a Mystery; One Wild Night; I Could Make a Living Out of Lovin’ You (Bonus Track); Neurotica (Bonus Track in Australia and Japan); Mystery Train; Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen from Mars; I Got the Girl.

On this day in music history: Moon Goes Missing, by Carolyn Wonderland (2017):

Moon Goes Missing

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,

released June 9, 2017.

Track list:

Moon Goes Missing; Open Eyes; Hellfire Bitters; Can't Nobody Hide From God; Swamp; Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat; She Wants to Know; To Be Free; Every Time You Go; Come Together; Bad to the Bone.