New Year's Resolution Music Jam
Back when President Lieberman and President Bad Nelson vetoed real health care reform and instead insisted on a mandated giveaway to the insurance industry, I sat down and listened to the entire box set, Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, the Atlantic Recordings, from start to finish. As you can imagine, it helped my mood immensely.
It made me realize that I haven’t been taking enough time to just sit down and listen to music of late.
I resolved to change that this year–to take more time for both recorded and live music.
So help me keep my New Year’s resolution. What have you been listening to of late–both new and old–that has really rocked your soul? What new bands have been busy making great music while I’ve been buried in a sometimes futile fight against DC culture?
And Happy New Year!
Steely Dan’s “King of the World”.
It as this great jazz riff where the guitarist (Walter Becker) just seems (@4:15) lost until BOOM, suddenly (@ 4:40) you know exactly where he is and it makes perfect sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSVjwbiXRvI&feature=PlayList&p=766FA6264A10E867&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=48
excellent
Stones. I am a bit, um, stuck in my ways ya know. For newer music, the Killers, especially Hot Fuss, is, well, killer.
Yeah, I wind up listening to all the old faves like the Allman Brothers, Little Feat, Otis (My MAN!) Redding, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Waits, Emmylou Harris and the list goes on and on.
I linked this on Egr’s diary Auld Lang Syne but it is appropriate for this thread as well:
It’s Been a Long Time
a recently discovered youtube gem
can you imagine hearing them in a club ?
I’ll see yer Lil Queenie and up you a Carol from Get Yer Ya Yas Out; still by my estimation the best live album ever.
Ya Ya’s Carol is still in the once a week rotation – (was lucky enough to see it in real time)
Oooh, sweet! To the best of my recollection, they have never done Carol in any of the ten some odd shows I have seen.
Holy Crap!! Check out this Carol from 1964 French TV. I have never seen this before in my life; totally wild!
thank you sir, hadn’t seen it either – Hail, Hail you and tube !!!
I am stuck as well, listening to old Graham Parker lately. Happy new year!
Towers of London by XTC, a great song by a brilliant & unjustly (IMHO) overlooked band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRNHbBg6HVc
Thanks you EW. And a Happy New Year to you and yours. Aretha one of my favorites of all times. Just wish she could feel it a bit more.”g” Knocks a persons socks off
Love music but have never been a devotee of anyone in particular. The only albums I have ever bought were Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Aretha, Al Green, Cat Stevens Tina Turner (that woman works the Kundalini from the tip of her toes out the top of her head into the universal sphere) Whoa does she know how to share her gifts.
Been with a bunch of 30 somethings so listening to Annie DeFranco, Bill Evans, Matt Costa, Prince Jazzbo…hell I don’t even know who these folks are well except Annie. Just listen
One thing I have noticed about the 30 somethings that I am around. Their music choices are far more diverse than most of my peer group when we were their ages. They listen to Hendrix, Billie Holdiay, Miles Davis, Annie, Joni, Cat etc. They really mix it up.
Found myself listening to Perry Como this holiday season. As a kid I loved that guy
Happy New Year Emptywheel !
honey, you are to analysis and writing what the Queen is to singing and playing
with her vocal gifts, it’s easy to forget she is a musician
Amen
Who knows? we could get some great music, songs, dance, art in the coming years, when folks realize the wasteland that’s come of the hope for change. Jazz reached new heights in Poland in the 1970-80’s. Remember the Wobblies?
I’ve resolved to watch more Monty Python flicks with my kids, because there is nothing quite as good as listening to them laugh over outrageous humor. Well, almost as good as listening to my kid recite the entire Black Knight skit by heart. I vow to help him round out his repertoire this year.
About music…I should listen to more Hawaiian slack key guitar, like Keola Beamer. Until we got out the Christmas CDs I didn’t realize how little I’d listened to this past year. Who couldn’t use a little more island time, even if delivered by MP3 a few minutes at a time?
By the way, Amazon has free MP3s for download. I’ve added a lot of nice work to my collection of world music this way. Also jazz and blues, too. Think my favorite free sampler CD includes Sara Vaughn, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Definitely could use more of this in 2010.
Been stuck on Natalie Merchant recently. Love her voice and Tiger Lily is a great album. Went looking for my favorite piece performed by her and David Byrne called Let the Mystery Be but it’s gone from YouTube. Here’s a beautiful version of David Byrne (Live Jools Holland, 2004) doing This Must Be The Place.
Best New Year’s wishes to all. Here’s a nice one, from an astonishing tour, featuring one of my generation’s main troubadors and a band from up yonder. It’s a double feature, and you get a good view of Robbie (Toronto, skdadl!).
Forever young! That’s us, eh? *cough* That’s a good version — I love the little conference midway through. My blogboss plays a little recent Levon (vocals and picking) now and then on Friday nights, really good stuff I’d never known before. That’s been my main “new” music education over the last couple of years — learning classic blues from teh boss, who usually finds videos that also allow me to play air piano.
“I got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it’s cold outside, I got the month of May …” It’s a grey overcast day here, but whatever light there is always plays wonderfully in this room, and my cats come to lie in it, sometimes play. The only young ‘un was going scatty chasing the rays, making me laugh, and then I was singing “My Girls” to them. (They freak when I start singing, and if you heard my voice, you’d know why. I have to sing “My Guy” sometimes too, because one is a fearsome male.)
I learned that song from Otis, but I found this priceless early performance by the Temptations. That’s got me working on my moves — my resolution is to learn to move like the Temptations. I’d put that up at our place but I see embedding is disabled.
Have people seen “Poo Chi,” from Suzanne last night over at the mothership? Too funny.
Levon is from Arkansas. He grew up in a place called Turkey Scratch, where his family primarily grew cotton. So he, like yrs truly, worked many a long, hard hour down home on the farm.
Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. That would be a place of myth and legend to me. Arizona and Kentucky are places of myth and legend to me. Everything south of the border states (I think I’ve been to all of them) is a place of myth and legend to me. Yer all movie stars to the rest of the world, y’know …
I’ve often felt the same way about Trois-Riveires and Cornerbrook, especially after a day or 4 of driving.
;>)
Now, you’re ahead of me — I’ve never been to Cornerbrook, although they make music there indeed. Here are Kate and Anna McGarrigle doing a song that’s pretty Trois Rivières.
Aimee Mann
James Taylor: Shed a Little Light – over and over!
Dixie Chicks wtf
Bob Dylan amen
ANYTHING by Dinah Washington. She never gets old.
Beethoven Late String Quartets.
Edgar Meyer, Bach Cello Suites — on bass.
Here’s a YouTube teaser of the sort of thing Meyer does.
I was home sick with a fever for the two days leading up to Christmas and when I wasn’t sleeping, I watched the VH1 Top 100 songs of the ’90s, which was fun to revisit.
I have a iPod shuffle and an 48 hour play time MP3 collection on iTunes including rap, rock, soul, R&B, jazz and classical. Right now my favorites are west coast rap from the days of Dr Dre and Tupac and Beethoven, which I listened to growing up but didn’t care for then.
Where did the decade go?
Barbara Cook, Tina Turner, Jackie Wilson and Jerry Butler.
Told my daughter recently that I thought turning 60 in May had made me feel old. However, I realized that it was that I no longer follow the current popular music scene and do not recognize new names/bands.
Could do pretty well until she left for college. I then digitized my 1000 CD collection and have been simply marinating in my music.
Agree with Leen. Thank goodness my thirty something daughter developed eclectic tastes over the years. She has just married a fine fellow who has a bigger, broader music collection than I do (am light in the jazz arena).
A lot of what’s already been mentioned. I also like Pink and anything Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits. I never know “new” music but now and then I’ll pull up Pandora and let it pick me some music. “Some day” I’ll follow up on some of what it picks.
Tbogg’s weekly hump the jukebox thread is always a great source for out of touch oldsters like myself
Forgot to mention Marvin. This is in my top ten favorites. Blow the roof off the house
What’s going on?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s
Wow, thanks for that one. No surprise that YouTube cut had 4.3M views at all. Breathtaking, like being beamed back in time. Even the quality of the audio is excellent.
Can’t tell you how many times I cleaned house to Marvin as a kid. Sly too.
Keeps it movin. Inspires
Here is a haunting one – Michael Jackson acapella, the voice track stripped out from Never Can Say Goodbye.
It’s gorgeous. What a talent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK0R2dBhmsk
Haunting indeed. When my 82 year old WWII Veteran, teamster, Archie Bunker kind of father has repeatedly said that Micheal Jackson was the best music performer of all times. You know Micheal broke down some barriers
Anything by Diana Krall
yep. you can have my Live In Paris when you pry it from my cold, dead hand
bonus track, just ’cause it always makes me happy :D
Need to blow some circuits
Proud Mary..Tina Turner
http://www.hittrax.com.au/youtube.asp?ccode=HO1168&Dealer=1016&InetOrder=True
Tina Turner and Mick Jagger together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTLgiROX5f8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaKl2ec4J_w
Tina older and better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJGoNeM3WzY
gotta go baste those wings – damn!
been listening to lots of Beatles of late – some vintage solo stuff is showing up on youtube – c’mon, Chuck Berry and John Lennon together for goodness sakes
but I’ll leave y’all with this, a long time favorite, and a new year’s day staple :D
Peace Y’all
a thread where my comment is actually on topic?! it is a New Year indeed…
2 new CDs in heavy rotation are from 2 of my fav L.A. singer-songwriters:
Dave Alvin (of Blasters) collaborated with a group of amazing women picker & fiddlers like Laurie Lewis on the new “Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women”. Kick ass guitar and vocals.
John Doe (of X) has recorded a new CD with the country group The Sadies “Country Club”. Much as I love the energy of X, the rhythm of these songs really let John’s voice shine.
While no one can touch the Queen of Soul, do you have any Ann Peebles in your collection? An extremely under-rated singer who was a staple at the great Hi Records. Try “I Can’t Stand The Rain” for a good feel of the Hi Sound. Or if you prefer a little more straight up R&B try “If This Is Heaven”.
I can go on and on and on…
I Can’t Stand the Rain and Dave Alvin ?!?!?
oh rosalind, you come sit with me :D
ah cbl12, i received my musical education in the clubs of Santa Cruz and the stacks of Cymbaline Records (the original, on Cedar St.) where by day i worked my way through the aisles (R&B, Soul, Country, African, Celtic) and by night bopped away to the real thing.
my brother still owes me after grudgingly accompanying me to the keystone palo alto to see a new guitar player hot out of austin. the look on my brother’s face after stevie ray’s first number – priceless.
right back atcha – I, a Palo Altoan, went to your Catalyst to see Johnny Guitar Watson, and this then unknown opened the show
Lived many, many years in Santa Cruz. Remember when Neil would show up unannounced at the Catalyst with the Ducks? Those were the days! I guess you know KPIG, too! One of the Pig’s (and my) favs, James McMurtry doing Can’t Make it Here Anymore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM&feature=
Excellent audio, and the video is well worth watching. Even references Have You Had Enough.
Please do go on and on–I would imagine we’d learn a lot.
And thanks.
a green light from mom? watch out.
OK, so this thread has my head back in the year that changed my musical life. My fellow co-workers at Cymbaline Records would see what pricked my fancy, then show (play) me the musical threads. Like:
The Blasters to Wanda Jackson to The Collins Kids
Patsy Cline to Skeeter Davis to Maria McKee
Koko Taylor to Ruth Brown to Ladies Sing The Blues
Nona Hendryx to Labelle to Patti & The Bluebells
Richard Thompson to Richard & Linda Thompson to Fairport Convention
King Sunny Ade to Johnny Clegg to Zulu Jive
The Crystals to Dreambabes to The Honeys
Los Lobos to Zoot Suit to Thee Midniters
Stevie Ray Vaughan to The Fabulous Thunderbirds to Albert Collins
and on…
thanks to my Cymbaline musical mentors diana, jeffrey, gary, polio, dave & mink the incontinent cat for one hell of a foundation to build my life in and ongoing love of music.
Heh, outstanding!!
The Blasters are pretty hot. Tried to go see the X reunion show over in San Diego a few months ago, but couldn’t make it. Spencer saw them on the same mini-tour in DC, said it was unbelievable.
I looked through the thread, not much new music here! Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women, I’ve been remiss in not ordering that, no local record store would have it, unfortunately.
Not The Band, but close.
James Hunter
Tegan & Sara for the truly young
The Klezmatics / Woody Guthrie mash up!?
A Maritimer (sorta) – Amelia Curran has a new CD out
Rose Cousins has a new CD out – this is from her 2006 release
thanks for your links! james hunter is new to me, love his sound.
Thanks for “Not The Band but close”
New to me and most excellent.
Will view the other links too.
happy new year emptywheel and everyone here… presently i am listening to terence blanchards ‘choices’ recording… i think it is really great. david sanchez ‘cultural survival’ is also really amazing… i spend more time in music then i do in threads like this.. it always fascinates me how so many folks continue to listen to music from their long ago past.. i guess that is why classic rock survives…. i’m in my 50’s too, but spend almost no time listening to music from when i was a kid… happy new year!
And even older. Proud Mary…
Tina shows us how to get older feel more and get even better. Wish they would have kept the camera on her more
Tina kisses the sky and takes us with her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCCS5fixC70
If they could figure out a way to harness Tina and Micks energy on a stage they could shut down the coal burning power plants.
Mashups. As my teenaged daughter puts it, they take the boring parts of songs and replace them with parts other songs. Sometimes they can yield something awesome and completely different. It also makes some folks uncomfortable, taking the known and tweaking or yanking it out of the comfort zone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOGtV-ET9xU&feature=PlayList&p=44149805F8950F77&index=9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_kI1Gmr9PA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37odz5ZGR1w
Happy New Year to all.
Tried listened. Different rides the spice of life
We are the World/USA Africa
Tina, Willie Nelson, Micheal, Lionel, Kenny Rogers, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Dylan, Bruce, Ray Charles [edited by moderator to remove character that could be confused with html] Harry Bellafonte, Dione,
We are the World
We are the children
There's a choice we're making
Happy New Years FDL folks
I believe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Ufv65L39s&NR=1
Tried could not make the transition. Differences..spice of life
We are the World
We are the Children
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
just you and me
Start giving …
Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, Tina, Billy Joel, Dione, Harry Bellafonte, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Dylan, Bruce, Kenny Loggins, Micheal Jackson,
Ray Charles
oh yeah
We Are the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Ufv65L39s&NR=1
I am a fool. Tears. I believe
Happy News Years FDL folks
Thanks Ew
I had my second graders do a multi-cultural performance one year, and ended with We Are the World. It was wonderful.
Totally cool! And totally new to me. Love Novocain Rhapsody!:D And Every Car You Chase is amazing! Thanks for this!
One of my all time favs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25E0ACkA6uo
my oh my thanks for reminding me. Talking Heads
The world moves on a woman’s hips
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/t/talking_heads/the_great_curve.html
Thanks for that — the lyrics are great!
and ew, here is the CD i crank up to 11 to chase the blues away – “Sing It!” with Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas and Tracy Nelson.
Great idea for a thread!
I used to like to listen to the Lion King sound track if I needed something to unwind and help me sleep. I need to get that out again. I’d get all ready for bed, start the CD, turn out the lights, and crawl into bed. By the time “The Circle of Life” comes around for the second time, I’m ready to start snoring.
Black Church Gospel is often inspiring, too. Many of them have been through worse times than I’ve ever seen, and yet the Black National Anthem is “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which can truly be inspirational– politically as well as spiritually.
But not just Black music. There’s good ole’ progressive grit and determination political songs like the little known classic by Robin Flowers, “I still ain’t satisfied.” That song could easily be edited to be a progressive theme song regarding our struggles with health care reform.
Lotsa good stuff in those old union songs, too.
Bob in AZ
I would have to recommend a band called “The Walkmen.” One of the (if not “the”)best rock bands in the US the last few years. Just look up the track “this job is killing me.”
What new bands have been busy making great music while I’ve been buried in a sometimes futile fight against DC culture?
LeE HARVeY OsMOND
LHO is a project headed by canadian tom wilson, a longtime member of blackie and the rodeo kings and other fine bands from canuckistan, also featuring other members of BARK and cowboy junkies, etc.
the album, a quiet evil, is excellent (you can download it from their site)… but the “loft session” they recorded for siriusxm with only wilson and pedal steel player aaron goldstein is absolutely mesmerizing.
here is a video from that lee harvey osmond loft session:
cuckoo’s nest
Sorry- wrong thread.
Bob in AZ
Otis
Sitting on the dock of the bay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nA18g_PwG0&feature=related
You have no idea how much I identify with that song. Every word, every image. Many thnx.
And may you be forever young, too!
This may get you out of your chair!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbE6UPKQczo
All classical, all the time, for me. Since I don’t have a huge collection, I listen to local classical radio or stream one of the best stations online, Minnesota Classical Public Radio. They even have an iPhone app, so I can listen while I ride my bike (in good weather, of course).
Ravi Shankar‘s daughter, Norah.
I saw them in concert a couple of years ago. Or at least it was Ravi and a daughter, not sure if there is more than one. A tremendous show!
On edit: not sure it was Norah. This one played sitar.
Edit two: not Norah, Anoushka. Teh Google is my friend.
Both daughters are beauties, huh?
Stones, lots of Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and
Viper of Melody by Wayne Hancock.
http://www.fatcityhorns.com/WhenTheCurtainGoesUp/01.WhenTheCurtainGoesUp.mp3
http://www.bgladd.com/SantaFe
Don’t know if you all know about Wolfgang’s Vault, but it is a completely awesome site having all of the old live footage from concerts Bill Graham did, dating all the way back to the old Winterland shows in the 60s. Here is a LA Times write up about it. It is a way cool site that you can get lost in for days if you are an old rock and roll concert nut like me. It is mostly free, but you do have to register.
Bringing me to youtube made me watch one of my faves. Jefferson Airplane performing White Rabbit at Woodstock.
Plastic Fantastic Lover from Bless Its Pointed Little Head
Hmmm…While I’m waiting for some younger artistes and players to ramp up a sense of scorn for their stodgy elders and the non-specific fearlessness that informs much of great art, a quick top 5:
Love – Forever Changes
Thelonious Monk quartet with John Coltrane – complete Riverside recordings
Cactus: Fully Unleashed – The live recordings
MC5 – High Time
Albert Ayler – the Holy Ghost boxset
I could go on, but there’s nothing worse than some disembodied muso struggling to impart a subjective sense of ethos.
;>)
Happy New Year, emptywheel and FDL.
Let us NOT forget the best version of America the Beautiful ever by Ray Charles.
I live on Bebel Gilberto – soothing, sexy and energizing all at once.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aemeFpLRdC0
Way better than Shakira btw …
Saw her live her recently – she plays a relatively small club here often and really brought the Brazilian warmth to chilly Chitown.
Related to Astrud?
She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque. Bebel has been performing since her youth in Rio de Janeiro.
Here’s a lovely video of her with her father:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hx21knmj
The performance I saw was one of the best parties I’ve ever been at …
When I want to get happy, I listen to Lost Horizons from Lemon Jelly. New sounds from a Brit band.
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Horizons-Lemon-Jelly/dp/B00006C77O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1262375806&sr=8-2
Check this slide show with the Wicked Pickett and Hendrix.
Another in my top ten
The Long and Winding Road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfQXkrwnaUI
The King of the Road from 1964.
Always listening to Rod Stewart and the sound trax from “Oliver” and “Paint Your Wagon” – nice
Lots of tears here. Thank you. Happy New Year.
Happy New Year!
EW listening to music I take as a good sign—helps keep the brain together, provides a medium for thought, something.
And don’t forget to make some music from time to time: Sing. Play a harmonica or a ukulele. The dumbest exercises count, if you do them in the right spirit.
“Imagine” Tough to do these days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfQXkrwnaUI
One of my favorite Catholic (Mother Mary) mixed up with Buddhism (Let it be) tunes
“Let It Be”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdopMqrftXs
K.D. Lang-Hallelujah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE
The absolute best IMO
I’m trying to find her vid of “Crying”, also one of her best.
That’s weird, I was just about to post the same song. Here, from the same show, she is singing another song by a great Canadian.
And for something completely different, if you like trains and strange names of English towns and villages. I used to live near Blandford Forum.
Wow. Thanks.
I love music commonly referred to as New Wave:
Ultrabox, OMD, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Dead Kennedys, Bauhaus, Thrill Kill Cult, Sonic Youth, The The, Icehouse, Bad Brains etc.
My favorite albums though are: 1] My Life In the Bush of Ghosts—brian eno and david byrne 2] 666—Aphrodites Child 3] Odes—Irene Pappas 4] Court of the Crimson King—King Crimson
Give them a listen.
John Lee Hooker, here with Santana:
Link not working
Bum link. A classic.
Thanks.
[Now if I can figure out why something else I’m trying to post won’t get in …]
What is it?
See at 130. Nothing special, just some words and a couple of media links. Have had it before since that site changeover a few months ago, but it’s inconsistent. The reason I think it might be encoding-related is that my previews started doing some ridiculous escape song-and-dance involving 3 backslash characters in order to display an apostrophe.
Perry Como. Classic
And I Love you so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SzQyWy_7uE&feature=related
Catch a falling star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ8RUE-GF4E
This is nice too, Israel K’s Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q
Ah, mahalo nui loa, that one never gets old.
Never can get enough of Bruddah Iz. No ka ‘oi.
For my wedding (September 27, 2008), I made a souvenir compilation CD of Hawaiian Renaissance classics. Bruddah Iz is featured on a number of tracks, along with the Makaha Sons of Ni’ihau, Sunday Manoa, the Brothers Cazimero, Don Ho, the Ka’au Crater Boys, Alei’a, and a few other favorites. Never fails to improve my mood.
Bob
from HI 2004-2009
don’t think I can mention The Catalyst without linking these for the Ry Cooder fans:
Maria Elena
Viva Flaco !!!
Let’s Have A Ball
Jesus On The Mainline
what a fantastic post today! Now to listen to all the links. Ditto to these songs and then will share my gift to myself after wanting for years– the full Messiah for Christmas listening plus the score with words and music. I shed a tear or two at my audaciousness. It’s a thing from my youth singing in chorus and band– love it, love alllll music. Way more fun some days than politix and hurts far less!
Now to start the navy beans with Christmas hambone instead of blackeyed peas for New Year’s day. They will be better if cooked while listening to all these songs! Happy New Year kiddos!
Oh, Nanz — are you making Hoppin’ John? I just heard about it and I want to do it properly — any words of advice?
Just plain old navy beans with ham. mmmmmm
sort well so no one breaks a tooth is my only advice!
I pressure cook blackeyed peas with smoked turkey necks for an hour. Remove lid safely and add sauteed onions, celery, bell pepper and garlic. Simmer for another couple of hours and mash some of the peas against the side of the pot to help thicken. Clean the meat off the necks and add. Don’t want meat, leave it out!
Ring of fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRlj5vjp3Ko&feature=related
Johnny Cash San Quentin..live from Prison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgja26eNeY&feature=related
“do you think I’ll be diferent when your through”
Here’s KD with Roy
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/roy-orbison-and-kd-land-crying/98F49C2145087E57C11C98F49C2145087E57C11C
Perry Como and the Airplane? Whew, that is as diverse as it gets.
Madeline Peyroux is my fave ‘new’ find –
here she is with k d lang singing Joni’s River
One of the Queen’s of lyrics
Joni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCov0TYXBp8&feature=related
More Joni. Quite the clip
California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4foLKDlcE&feature=related
oooh thankee. there are youtubes of a ‘tribute’ show ’bout 10 years back with various artists singing her songs – Cary by Cyndi Lauper and Black Crow by Richard Thompson are standouts – yes, I normally like listening to original artists, but hearing these other performers really showcases her immense songwriting talent
Uh. How had I missed for almost 40 years that “California” was done on a dulcimer?! And had anyone played the dulcimer like that previously? It looks like she re-invented the instrument. What was she thinking: it’s really a steel guitar? It’s a skinny Dobro? Well, we always knew she was a genius.
genius for sure
Willie..Whiskey River
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4WYHJNYX7k&feature=related
Happy New Year, Marci. You probably never heard of him, but try Gram Parsons- Grievous Angel album. And Jackson Browne’s “The Pretender” never gets old. P.S. His story is something else, too.
there are several excellent Jackson Browne Live In Maryland youtubes you may enjoy – arrangements and sound quality remind me very much of early 70’s concert experience
Which leads to the Flying Burrito Brothers, in their varied incarnations…Along with Buck Owens and others, the roots of modern country.
Buck Owens ?
oh hell yeah !
p.s. have long been on the hunt for Rick Roberts version of Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
Taking me back. Graham and Emmylou! Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zR-tKVt0VU
(Return of a Grievous Angel)
If nobody has said I love you today, please let it be me for the link you presented. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Sweet. Thank you. You are loved, too! Thanks to your comment I’ve been listening to Gram, EmmyLou, and a whole host of artists I haven’t listened to in many years! In fact, this entire thread has been a total treat and will continue to be. Thank you to everyone!
How could I forget? He was Emmylou Harris’s BFF.
Bob in AZ
The Blues are Brewin/Billie Holiday and Louie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWtUzdI5hlE
Ella Fitzgerald…oh my
Summertime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j6avX7ebkM&feature=related
i particularly like ari hest’s cover of hallelujah.
i also like the fact that you can go see him play, sit right up close where his voice can make the hairs on your arm stand right up. nice.
My favorite mood adjusters of late are Harry Nilsson (A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night), songs even my father knew. One YouTube clip I keep handy is from PBS, Chris Botti in Boston a duet with Lucia Micarelli (Emmanuel). Superb, stops me in my tracks every time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8NN4fpdm40&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeaO6TvGX4w
“Learning To Fall” Lowen & Navarro
These guys have been recording great stuff for decades, but this cut is especially inspiring. Eric Lowen was diagnosed with ALS a few years back. Watching him handle this has been tremendously inspiring.
That obnoxious ad that blares out “Congradjulayshuns!!! YOU WON!!!” is back on the site. It’s been nice since it’s been gone. Sorry that quiet times are over.
Ester Phillips. Home is Where the Hatred Is.
crikey! that mean ol oldnslow is insisting I come out, drink liquor and watch the football – will leave ya all with one last fave for 70’s rockers
Excitable Boy
my deja wont quit vuing
rock on emptywheelers and firedogs !
What a Wonderful World.
Oh, yeah. My husband, who was all either classical or Celtic folk, was already not well when he heard Louis singing that song one night in a pub. I don’t think he’d ever heard it before, but he stopped in his tracks and his face just lit up, and he wouldn’t move ’til it was over. Very special memory.
Bet he liked Hello Dolly and Mack the Knife too.
He really responded to that voice. I went out and bought a CD right away, and I played it for as long as that worked.
Mack the Knife — that’s me, though. Fantastischen song. My German was never very good, but when I was a student, I bought a terrific LP of Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), and I learned to sing every song. My German prof, who despaired of me otherwise, was highly amused that I could sing German even though I couldn’t learn to speak, read, or write it.
Of all the English versions of Mack the Knife, I still love Bobby Darin’s the most and best. That was a bombshell when he first performed it (1959), simply brilliant. No one knew what it meant! But everyone loved it! That’s music.
Now that’s just strange, skdadl! You can sing that?!!!
Well, yeah … you might not want to hear it, but yes, I can. I’d need a copy of the libretto now to do the whole thing in German (and I’ve got one around here somewhere, just not unpacked yet), but I’ve got Bobby Darin in my head 4evR.
My voice was never very good, Loo Hoo, and I have chronic laryngitis now, but oh, I have enjoyed singing anyway.
Here’s your Bobby Darin.
Wow, that is nice!
The Doors also did a version, I see from my googling, but their great success with Brecht & Weill was the Alabama Song (“Oh, moon of Alabama,” aka “Whisky Bar”).
I’ve been watching YouTubes of Morrison fighting his way through live performances of that song, and I don’t think you want to go there. He would have been the one to know the tradition and appreciate Weill’s musical greatness — such a talented guy Morrison was in so many ways. So many of us adored him at the time from a distance, but you can see from the late videos how sick he had become. His own band-mates look scared.
My daughter and I visited Morrison’s grave at http://images.google.com/images?q=pere%20lachaise%20cemetery&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi. An amazing visit.
For your webmaster: I think I’m having an encoding problem such that I can’t enter things with the slash character. Like urls. I’m getting database errors even though I’m logged in and strictly alphanumeric things, like this note, get accepted. I’ve had this before at this site, and it comes and goes unexpectedly.
utf8 is my native encoding.
Interesting. I am not a computer whiz, but when I tried to go to EW’s site on my Mac, I get this notice that says “501 Method Not Implemented GET to/ not supported”, any ideas? Only with Safari nothing else. Just started doing it.
Have passed that along–don’t be surprised if the Mods email you directly to troubleshoot.
As mentioned before several times(!) the MC5.
Spend 2:35 to watch ‘The American Ruse” from YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTOvHcDWNkg&feature=related
Note the host announcing that they are followed by Anne Murray.
Kick out the jams, other folkers!
;>)
Walking Spanish Down the Hall. (just the music, not the vid) Tom Waits.
I’m all over the musical map. And there’s nowhere I’d rather be. *g*
From Emmylou Harris to Alien Cowboys.
From Errorhead to Chris Botti.
From Del Amitri to Eric Johnson.
From Linda Ronstadt to Tommy Bolin.
From Jeff Golub to the BoDeans.
From Brian Culbertson to Chuck Loeb.
But in the end, I’m a lead guitar aficionado and have always been so.
So I must bow before the master maestro, Joe Satriani.
There is nothing quite like his magic in If I could fly.
And if you thought Joe was only a studio guitarist, think again! You’ve not quite been to a live performance until you see his guitar magic in person.
Try this with the volume cranked: Joe Satriani – Made of Tears (Live 2006)
Or this: Joe Satriani – Super Colossal (Live 2006)
And I don’t begrudge Steve Vai a place in the top guitarist firmament either.
Who can forget this:
Steve Vai – Tender Surrender
Or this:
Steve Vai – Boston Rain Melody
The list of my music almost knows no bounds. I’ve only got 60 GB of music on my PC’s hard drive, and that barely scratches the surface.
What would life be like without music?
Oakland Coliseum. Grateful Dead. Don’t remember the year, which wasn’t important anyway. Satriani was also playing and I was very eager to hear him ’cause I knew he was a monster. Dude played so LOUD that I couldn’t hear him–just felt the music. Whew!
shoulda left some drinkin’ music X~o
Oh, man. I love Canciones. Quite a change from It Doesn’t Matter Anymore, huh?
Ah, classic Linda Rondstadt! I personally sometimes identify with Desperado.
Doesn’t always help my mood, however *g*.
Bob in AZ
Paul Simons “Gone At Last”.
And 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.
Blue world by thew moody blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COCCp62oAy4
I’ve been exploring lots of European jazz, and cross-genre/cross-cultural music; unbelievably beautiful stuff. So many names to write down; I’d be happy to share, if anyone’s interested.
Or…you can check out my “DJ station” on Blip.fm, which is like Twitter, only the tweets play music when you click on them! Very social, excellent for discovering new music, and new friends to explore with.
Check my main playlist out at: http://blip.fm/avivamagnolia (and) my secondary mix at http://blip.fm/liminal.
My taste is eclectic–I “blip” all kinds of genres, but I tend to center around jazz and “world” or multicultural jazz/world stuff.
Creating this music-sharing forum is a great idea for unwinding a bit of #HCR stress, @emptywheel! Thanks.
BOC Dominance and Submission.
Last BOC YouTube was kind of crappy recording; this one of Astronomy is much better.
Ah, Bmaz, you’ve exposed the Soft White Underbelly.
;>)
Excellent!! I actually saw them perform in a one off club set once as Soft White Underbelly. It was advertised about a day ahead of time, but you had to know who the Soft White Underbelly was.
Giant steps by John Coltrane is incredible .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU
Anything by Charlie Parker !
Bird recieved alot of greif for doing Cahrlie Parker with strings as being too commercial but I still think it’s one of the best records ever recorded .Just listen to the opening 30 seconds on this tune .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ4Huw-aJi8
I agree – although IMO the format trapped Yardbird at a time when an expansion of his already broad musical horizons might have averted or delayed his untimely end…Or not, some fates refuse to be overturned.
All The Things You Are
Oh, now you’re reminding me of Compared to What.
That song has always made me laugh the lyrics are hillarious .
Minor swing by Django made all the more remarkable because two fingers on Django’s left hand were burnt so badly he essdentially couldn’t use them .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmOTGungnA&feature=related
That’s one of my favorites!
Bob in AZ
Yeah Parker didn’t get to record much as a result of the limit to vinyl being pressed during the war . With Strings was his first real recording ,I believe, after the war ended .
And the Petrillo/AFM music ban, as well. It was actually recorded 5 years after WW2 ended – Parker was certainly up for the challenge of melding bop lines to string pads, and it opened the door for many others to follow the format – Clifford Brown, and so on. Mitch Miller provided some fine producing – If Bird had lived, it would have been interesting to hear a revisitation of the format in the hands of a Nelson Riddle, say.
Ever hear Django story on how he lost the use of two of his fingers … it read a little like the monkey paw . True gypsy stuff .
From wikipedia:
At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine “Bella” Mayer, his first wife.[4] They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Reinhardt apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbors were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralyzed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burned. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs.[5] Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.
His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With rehabilitation and practice he relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralyzed. He played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and used the two injured digits only for chord work.
There has to be a lesson in that story about how a disability led to a new and totally novel approach to the instrument that set him completely apart from other guitarists …
Oh did I mention he was a gypsy ?
Here’s my own poor attempt at minor swing but as I pointed out earlier I have the disadvantage of having the use of all my fingers . LOL .
Miles David & John Coltrane.
Stuart Duncan played Keep on the Sunny Side at my sister’s memorial.
and Loo Hoo @ 178,
I bow at your feet! Anyone who knows Stuart Duncan and Alison Kraus….
Bob in AZ
Chicken Truck. Man, I’m having myself a time!
How about these three?
Nice.
John McLaughlin , thousand island pak from the Birds of Fire album .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyDwQWScFHU
That’s very beautiful.
(Now I have to back up and listen to everyone else.)
I’ve bookmarked the page .
funny that you would post this. i just 15 minutes ago decided to put some music on for the first time in months.
Feist – The Reminder (seems to be a winter album for me)
Eliane Elias Sings Jobim (and pretty much anything else of her’s)
two outstanding musicians
Hey! You kids better get off my lawn or I will beak out some Zep!!
Hey, I got to meet Robert Plant and Alison Kraus last year when they played at San Diego State. Stuart Duncan (who’s playing the fiddle here) got my brother and I great seats and backroom passes. It was wonderful!
Awesome! My wife and I went to the show here on that tour; really nice. Needed more Zep though….
Of late, RahjNYC, because all rhythm comes from the subway. The album: Graffiti Blue. You can get it from cdbaby.com site, I can’t link it. Features music heard in the movie Love the hard Way, and a Bebel Gilberto cameo besides. You can check out some of it, e.g. “Deeper,” “Union Square, NY,” at RahjNYC’s youtube channel. The stream playing at his own website’s good, too (www.rahjnyc.com). Headphones a plus.
Happy New Year, Everyone.
I was intrigued by the Auld Lang Syne rendition by Susan McKeown linked to by egregious today.
So I looked up Susan McKeown. She has several albums. The Auld Lang Syne rendition above comes from the McKeown/Horner “Through the Bitter Frost and and Snow” album. However the prologue on her McKeown/Johnny Cunningham “A Winter Talisman” album sums up the importance of music and art –words which are appropriate to this thread:
the last time i saw stevie ray vaughan perform was 12/3/89 at oakland coliseum. after the show i made my way backstage to say good-bye to friends (i was still working for BGP at the time) and passed stevie & gang heading to their dressing room. i’ll never forget the beaming smile on his face. that he had just conquered a lot of his demons was well known, and it’s like he knew full well he’d been given a second chance and was going to make good use of every moment. and then in a blink he was gone.
Stevie Ray Vaughan performing “Riviera Paradise” in 1989.
(for those so inclined, it has some great close ups of his fretwork)
These are blessed memories, rosalind.
I heard about your background in that regard; we’re gonna have to chat some day!
still going to netroots nation? first round’ll be on me.
Yep, since it is finally back in my hemisphere, I have sworn to attend. Very much look forward to it. Second round is on me, because one is not enough…
so, if you got one of those mail order minister thingies between now and then, could i pick your legal brain about what went down at my first (and hopefully) last mediation and have it fall under privileged communication and not violate the confidentiality agreement we had to sign?
/only partially kidding
Wow great ! Stevie ray vaugn was a true master .
Want some Piazzolla? He’s tremendous in concert with poetry. From Sony’s Edicion Critica series (at Amazon, with samples) you can find En Persona, just Piazzolla’s bandóneon and recitations by the poet Horacio Ferrer.
The same two artists collaborate with a full ensemble and the great Amelita Baltar in —a lifelong obsession, another retelling of an old and familar story, what have you— titled María de Buenos Aires. The version that I far and away prefer is a Trova records import, available on separate cds as Maria de Buenos Aires, Primera Parte and … Segunda Parte, and with Victor Pontino listed as the first performer, though Astor himself performs and conducts.
That said, there’s also a pretty nice live performance of María on youtube featuring J.J Mosalini as the ensemble leader, that appears for some reason to have been recorded inside a deep blue box …
Yay! A thread for the ages!
Virgil Fox [plays Bach’s} Toccata & Fugue in D minor
Whatta show — saw him at Pomona College in the early 70’s. I wore miniature neon lights to the show.
Since no one has mentioned Steve Tibbits (accessible)… (harder)… One of many great ECM artists!
Terje Rypdal Waves (Great piece, bad recording). Early Terje.
Someone you may not know… Tipper – [Off Kilter] and [Hobbledehoy]and [Noise Cannon]
I could go on! (And we haven’t even seen the light show yet.)
OK one more…
David Parsons – Under the Bodhi Tree My fave is “Parikrama” but alas, no youtube.
You can have the ’57 Chevys. I’ll take the screamin’ guitars. And here’s one of the last of the old ones (JB).
Wonderful. And let’s say hello once again to Canned Heat, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Eric Burdon and the Animals.
Oh, yes!!! And don’t forget this monster of his time (Cipollina) and Quicksilver.
I raise you a John Mayall and a Leon Russell.
I’m searching for my favorite Duane Allman to raise you, but can’t find it. Meanwhile, dare ya to sit still through this.
And Carlos continues to improve. Total respect.
Inti illimani for both their music and their story .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5RpuhnymRE
http://freelightnow.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post.html
Oh yea, Marci, how about Van Morrison- Into the Mystic, huh?
Here you go!
I’ll take Tupelo Honey, but the original isn’t available on YouTube. Van’s people have been busy protecting their music. Good for them.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. {{}}:**
Van Morrison’s a little protective of his music. He’s sorry he participated in The Last Waltz because he doesn’t get any royalties.
I don’t blame him at all.
Don’t leave out the rascals !
Anyone ever listen to Little Feat?
Little Feat – Times Loves a Hero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK_hftXn4dk
and Little Feat -Dixie Chicken with Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris and Jesse Winchester.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO3ZMdcL8Pc
i just saw lowell george’s daughter inara perform with her new side group, the living sisters, featuring becky stark and eleni mandell. their 3-part harmonies are out of this world. their debut album comes out in the spring.
they have a few songs up on their myspace page.
What a pleasant surprise.
I was unaware of this.
Just one more, REO Speedwagon, living here in Champaign,Il., we could go up on the U of I campus to the Red Lion Inn and at the time I think it cost a buck to get in to see them. Aw, the memories…. thank you everyone for all the great comments. And to you Marci, our sweet Marci, love.
I used to go to a little place in Escondido called The Alley. Saw Kris Kristofferson and Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. I was even on the cover of an album I can’t find featuring Got My Paycheck Today.
Hey, Good Lookin’.
New Year’s Day a long time ago, brought to you by Garfield High’s favorite son (more follows, btw).
Well, since you said new, I’m listening to;
1) Them Crooked Vultures, they’re self titled debut.
2) Song For A Son by the Smashing Pumpkins. All 44 new songs will be releasd as free. The first four are already recorde the first one, lined, released, and I beliee they’re going to be released at one per month.
3) Spent Bullets by Adam Franklin
4) The new Univers Zero recording to be released this month. It sounds like they’re best in years.
Strongman by his feet
plate spinning statesman
acrobatically juggling.
bids his tamers
go quiet the tumblers
lest the mirror stop turning
King Crimson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI5zpgHqt3s
Epitath
Between the iron gates of fate,
The seeds of time were sown,
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known;
Knowledge is a deadly friend
When no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.
Epitath King Crimson
pastime paradise… stevie
woke up today, I was crying,
Lost in a lost world so many people are dying,
Lost in a lost world.
Some of them are living an illusion,
Bounded by the darkness of their minds,
In their eyes, it’s nation against nation,
With racial pride, sad hearts they hide
Thinking only of themselves, they shun
The light. They think they’re right
Living in their empty shells.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhNl6wIkVs8
Love train
WAR !
Here’s a lullaby and sweet goodnight: “Prayer” by Secret Garden ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcCsmvNzneg )
For the love of money
Mercy mercy me
MZCHIEF IS THAT A VIRUS YOUR LINKING TO OR A PRAYER ?
You tube put up all kinds of red flags when i used it .
Thanks all–this was wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful song though this might be a better link .
Prayer by secret garden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYDK6SNdLHY
Music is an ecstacy ,a place between the worlds , the shamans doorway .
Hey, you and Loo Hoo can load your cds on my player any time you like.
And I bid you good night.
Ready to “chill”?
Supreme Beings of Leisure Strangelove Addiction and Never The Same
Buy this mp3 if you want a terrific tune “Nothin’ like tomorrow”
This new guy caught my downtempo ear… Alexander Daf.
aaand something trippy… Phutureprimitive
Marcy, I have a great dvd for you to watch, with the cd of songs. Playing for Change/Peace Through Music. The actual documentary on how a small group of people went around the world and put 35 headphones on individual, mainly street musicians[ they’re in the “Joy” business] and laid down tracks is fucking amazing.
Lifts the Spirit above the pain. And angst.
You really need the deluxe set with the dvd as seen on PBS = 28[?] minutes and for $4 more buy the cd, it’s good music for the soul by people who know the importance of Love.Peace. Uniting as humans.
Oh, if you order it, add on Grandpa Elliot’s CD Sugar Sweet, for $12.98. Grandpa Elliot probably knows, this is great house cleaning music!!!!
Should just say, Playing For Change/Peace Through Music. Deluxe set; dvd as seen on PbS +28 minutes with accompanying CD. Or you high-tech folk can probably download off their site. I live in the T-Rex era.
But I’ve always loves TRex.!
Miles Davis – “Human Nature”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGBPSx1Zxlo
Let’s do some Mars…
Bowie asks the musical question — is there life on Mars? Eno scores the highly pixelized answer.
Don’t look too close, Elmo might getcha!
Ha! Just kidding. Here are the naughty bits of Martians’ remains.
And your last cup of Sleepy Time…Yantra
Have any of you been down to Junior’s Farm?
You’re dreaming… about politics… KoRn Politics!
Those Corporatitians dreaming they’re in The Book of Heavy Metal
Your breathing is my breathing…
Your blood is my blood…
This nightmare of… Frozen Hope…
or the audacity of Apocalyptia
If you have not heard about Fur Peace Ranch in my neck of the woods worth the gander. Jorma Kaukonen and his wife Vanessa discovered our great town of Athens Ohio several decades after many had been living very alternative “live simply so others can simply live” lifestyles in the area for quite some time. Many artist, writers, organic farmers buying and improving farms since the mid 6o’s. The community welcomed the Kaukonen’s.
The music venue and creativity that pours out of their music farm is outstanding
If you sign up for a guitar camp. Tell them Leen sent you
http://www.furpeaceranch.com/
To round things out a little bit, here are a few best of lists for 2009:
Best Blues from NPR / KPLU sampler Joanne Shaw Taylor
No Depression Best Bluegrass of 2009 sampler Claire Lynch
Take Five’s Top 10 Jazz Records Of 2009 sampler Vijay Iyer Trio
Jesse Johnson: Verbal Penetration Volumes 1 and 2. The best soul and funk album in about 15 years, by the former guitarist of The Time. It is simply awesome.
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8012156
‘Memo from Turner’ (Jagger) on the Performance soundtrack.
Also on it are Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Buffy Ste. Marie & The Last Poets.