Rhiannon all gussied up for a TED concert :bowdown:
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John Denver was high up on my list of musicians in 1997 when he did the ultimate dumb thing----and stuffed himself into the Monterey Bay. :redmad:
I still vacillate between anger and compassion toward him :dunno:
Annie's Song
Rhiannon Giddens has just been awarded a Pulitzer for her Opera "Omar" ----what an honor. :clap:
And here is some honest to goodness blue grass. :clap:
Don't miss the one that begins at 11:25 :cool:
This just came on my player---we have "history".
In her early days I wanted to love her but could not ignore her politics. By the time this song (Diamonds and Rust) came out in 1975 I had been converted into the peace movement and her politics were no longer a barrier :clap:
My favorite Baez song:
https://youtu.be/wanJQC5KAfo
This just came up---and forced my mind to "actively" listen and to watch the video.
The Piano Man originated about 1973----and I was in the midst of a personnel and silent struggle. I had graduated in Dec. 1969 and immediately went to work for a very large consulting firm. I was "fast tracked" and before long I was on the road 75% of the time----I was the "clean-up" guy that fixed the punch list. It was hard to be upbeat when I spent so much of my time "fixing chit" :sorry:
Living on the road is full of pot holes---and it is easy to hit everyone. The biggest of all---the bar in the hotel which has become your home:wary: I would sit there and listen to some guy tell some woman the same lies you heard some other guy tell some other woman the night before---1,000 miles away. Life was cheapened. Eventually I stopped drinking---but on occasion I would still go to the bar--and then have to listen to the sly comments from the bartender or some drunk about not having a "real" drink:redmad:
This song speaks to all of those things----from the inside:help:
To end my tale, in the spring of 1974 I walked away. I had a 3 year old son who did not know me:wary: My company talked me into taking a sabbatical rather than resign---I did---and I'm still on it:hatoff:
In four years, I had learned more than I had learned in four years at an excellent university----but it was slowly killing me:bleh:
I bought a backhoe and began the next phase of my life being a father and husband:smilie:
Piano Man has long been one of my favorites. :clap:
Many tried but few succeeded to sing with Pavarotti but most paled to the depth and power of Pavarotti's voice. In this instance I give Lionel Richie kudos for a job well done :clap:
i don't really know who john mayer is, but the tune is farmilliar, i definatly hear the ottis redding towards the end. just a nice pick me up after a hard day. :smokin:
https://www.google.com/search?q=teen...id:tMktEBdTZIA
Count Basie and his orchestra at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Amsterdam.
The "young" base player is John Clayton, a friend of mine----he has more than a few grey hairs now :pimpgrin:
At the time this was recorded John was also the principle basest with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. He married a Dutch girl and latter moved to CA were they still live. Their son Gerald has become a well know pianist in his own right. John retired from teaching (the kids got free tuition!) at UCLA and has his own orchestra with his brother Jeff.
While we are doing Jazz----here is another great. :clap:
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton ----I think Clapton is one of the top guitarist today and Wynton Marsalis is in his own class. I once read (or was told) that playing with Wynton Marsalis was like falling down an endless and empty elevator shaft:eek1:
Okay, Dave! You got me on this one! I have heard many renditions of Corrine Corrina, but never anything like this. What I have heard is mostly Western Swing and a few Cajun versions. It got me to wondering about the origin of the music, and down the wormhole I went.
Before showing you what I found, an interesting fact:
Damn! That's a piece of history right there!Quote:
"Corrine, Corrina" is also an important song related to Western swing's pioneering use of electrically amplified stringed instruments. It was one of the songs recorded during a session in Dallas on September 28, 1935, by Roy Newman and His Boys (OKeh 03117).[9] Their guitarist, Jim Boyd, played what is the first use of an electrically amplified guitar found on a recording.
For more interesting stuff about Corrine Corrina, poke on these links: Wikipedia and Fiddle School
BTW, Clapton and others got sued over copyright violations for performing Corrine Corrina. I don't know the outcome.
Wow----now I need to go back to school :hi5:
I had no idea that anything that murky was behind Corine, Corina-----and its variations :blind:
The list of those who had some part in the long history of the song reads like a music Who's Who :o:
The suit against Clapton was based on the claim that he incorrectly attributed the song on his alblum to Lead Belly Ledbetter
I'm not sure what ever happened to it, I did find that Clapton filled to dismiss the case five years after it was brought.Quote:
[BA LAWSUIT FILED against Eric Clapton claims the guitarist mistakenly credited the wrong blues musicians in the liner notes of his 1992 Unplugged album.
The song in question, “Alberta,” credited blues legend Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter as the songwriter behind the traditional tune.
However, in the lawsuit filed in Nashville, the estate of blues singer Armenter “Bo Carter” Chatmon argues that Clapton improperly credited Ledbetter for the track, and that the performance is actually a rendition of Chatmon’s “Corrine, Corrina.”[/B]
huh, i always thought corrine corrina was a lead belly tune:shrug: thanks for the education:cash:
some here might like reverend peyton and his big damn band. kinda bluesy. i need to reasearch what kind of guitar and amp he uses. the sound reminds me of late 30's, early 40's blues played with a slide:cool_one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RopOgsh5c this vid is pretty entertaining too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qkjbQBEhvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWCcLW08dsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RopOgsh5c
i also like the drummers use of anything around to make percussion:hatoff:
I never gave the origin of Corrine Corrina much thought, but if asked I would have said it was a Western song of the type played around cowboy campfires and barn dances in the 1800s. It turns out to be much more contemporary, although still old to us. My first memory of hearing it was on country music radio in the early '70s, probably played by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
Here is the original recording by Bo Carter (Bo Chatmon) in 1928.
https://youtu.be/lJFRGTP7zwA
This is a marvelous sound and unequaled (IMHO) by any other instrument. It is called a pan flute. The artist is Gheorghe Zamfir, I believe widely considered the best of the best on the pan flute.
I found the comments below this piece to be very interesting----I had many of the same thoughts.
Enjoy
huh...i always heard them called pan pipes. i do very much enjoy them:hatoff::cool_one:
Colter Wall......not blues....not blue grass.......not country.....but he's got it, i have not heard story tellin' music like this for quite a while
kida sort of like Kris Kristofferson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l4gdhPqh3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSYkikkitS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCebq5lLgos
:cash:
Okay, I like it! The voice just doesn't fit the face at all.
There are some pretty good comments, too.
"I played this for my 7 year old daughter and now she works as a bartender in a honky tonk bar chewing tobacco and cussin out truck drivers. Imagine when she turns 8."
i get it. i first heard him on a college radio station. i liked him enough to write his name down. when i got home and saw him on video the first time it was a "this does not compute" moment. i really like his writing and arrangements and have grown to very much enjoy listening to him. i actually had my speakers in the window this evening and had him playing as i weeded my garden and watched my chickens run around.
ray collins hot club. kinda old school swing jazz, kinda 50's 60's do-wop. i dig it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvJIzVwcYVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHtcitb7Dk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQHufBgvO3U
the last one seems like it should be from reefer madness... where is that swing dance emoji :)
I like. A little different than Doo Wop, which I love!
nice find tri! i dig it, and now i wonder how i have never heard him before.....hmph...
i always love being introdused to great new to me artists i have never heard, and am amazed how many there are because i listen to a whole lot of music. i thank you good sir!:hatoff::cool:
Flaco, for some different that boogies look up Don "Sugarcane" Harris
i'm on it! thanks again:hatoff:
and also for those interested in blues, here is sister rosetta tharpe live from 1964 performing "didn't it rain?":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE
somehow, in some way, i can't explain why, he seems like an early rawish version of screamin' cheetah wheelies (they started up in the late 80's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfmaDODZ_XU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdjk1rAgxIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8VCPsV4Os
you mean about grandmother of rock and who she influenced? here is some of her history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKK_EQ4pj9A
tommy emmanuel. he is very high up with there with the best 6 string acoustic guitarist i have ever heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33tWZqXhnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cHeNscKZN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQhECkexmSI
this just made me laugh, i had to share. jack benny presents spike jones & the nitwits. hope yall enjoy:bounce:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUrqMyPO8Ys
Lots of good music in Toby Keith!
i enjoyed derek trucks the first time i heard him. i first heard him play with susan tedeschi in the mid 90's. i first heard susan from a dj named mike lapitino on 99.1 wplr out of new haven ct. i listened that afternoon and then purchased her cd "just wont burn" from 1997. she has a tremendous voice and plays guitar very well, that combine with derek trucks, her now hubby, are a superb combo.
susan tedeschi's version of "angel from montgomery" is probably the best i have heard with full respect given to bonnie raitt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIZx30d17nI
some others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkdCiqsFUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwgEELSShrU
ok i don't quite know what to say on this. MFC chicken..........kinda 60 garage rock mixed with bill haley and throw in yakkity sax:shrug:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsTcf_7ZOVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ZQZL-M3aE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRj9nozjUXE
i kinda sorta dig it....