Music: What are you listening to today?
In the spirit of the books and movies threads, here's one to talk about what you're listening to lately and what you have discovered. Tell us if you like it, what it reminds you of, anything you like, short or not, simple or not.
Like the books thread, I'd ask that we keep it mostly to stuff we are listening to or going to listen to soon, or have just finished listening to (that is, like a log more than a resume).
Below is my first entry.
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Bonnie Raitt, by Bonnie Raitt.
My understanding is that this was her first record, which she made when she was 21. Nine out of the eleven songs are covers; the two she wrote are "Thank You" and "Finest Loving Man," and both are good.
I really liked this album. Bonnie's voice is much sweeter here than I've heard her before, and very warm, traveling between notes more fluently, and not yet as raspy sounding as it became. (Which I also like in its own way.) Despite the sweetness of her voice she manages to put some heart into the bluesy material, and sings with what sounds like a real love for the lyrics. It's great to hear someone who doesn't just walk through lyrics. She sounds like she really thought and felt her way through the songs. Many of the most gifted and popular singers out there don't, winding up leaving a lot of a song's power still on the table, so to speak.*
From an Amazon.com review:
Bonnie wrote two of the songs here (Thank you, Finest loving man) but relied mainly on covers, beginning with a cover of Bluebird (written by Stephen Stills, famous as a member first of Buffalo Springfield then of Crosby Stills and Nash). One of Bonnie's major influences, Sippie Wallace, is represented by two songs (Mighty tight woman, Women be wise) while Bonnie also covers Any day woman (Paul Siebel), Walking blues (Robert Johnson) and Since I fell for you (Bud Johnson) among others.
I really enjoyed Walking Blues a lot and wanted to hear it immediately again, but decided to let the rest of the album play out instead of interrupting its flow. The album is good enough that I think I'm going to listen to it again.
By the way, it's in the Rhapsody's catalogue, if you have that service. It's also at Amazon, and the MP3 256kbps download is on sale there for $2.99. You can listen to samples there too.
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*This reminds me of a biography of John Denver that I saw on PBS the other day. I'm not a big Denver fan, but the biography was so good that this is the second time I felt compelled to watch it. Anyway, in it his manager said that at a particular concert Denver sounded exceptionally good, and it seemed like the audience noticed it. His manager recalls saying something like, "Your voice was incredible today. How did you do it?" Denver replied that he was trying to do what he learned from Placido Domingo when they worked together. He said he was amazed by how deep Domingo's art was; he didn't just sing a line, but put the right emotion into it word by word. If he was going to sing about a piece of steel, his voice would sound like steel. Every line was emotionally full, clear, and precise.
I got a bit of a feeling of that in this Raitt album. Raitt very much inhabited those songs when she sang. Unlike some spoiled divas, the newly emergent Raitt got across the feeling that she was glad to be there.
I'm now using this as my ringtone. [emoji23]
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Unbelievably almost 20 years old now...
"And I wonder, should I offer you a chair?
Well, if you sit down with this old clown, take that frown and break it
Before the evening's gone away, I think that we could make it
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you"
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Fall walking tune 
oh no
not claiming it to be a bad thing
hope we're all chock full of nostalgia for where we came from and use it to shape future travel plans
I was listening to the Ethiopian jazz you posted and left the room with the tv on and Youtube playing while I went to game online poker and get stoned for a couple hours. I got super stoned and when I came back in to the room at like 2am and this song and video was just kind of playing for me as I walked back in....lol
I felt like I was in a trance for a few moments ngl
Musical genius Jimmy Reed born 99 years ago today.
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One of the greatest songwriters of all time…
While he's not close to Rutger Hauer or Dennis Bergkamp when it comes to my favourite Dutch person, Tiësto is still pretty far up on that list.
I was listening to the Ethiopian jazz you posted and left the room with the tv on and Youtube playing while I went to game online poker and get stoned for a couple hours. I got super stoned and when I came back in to the room at like 2am and this song and video was just kind of playing for me as I walked back in....lol
I felt like I was in a trance for a few moments ngl
had similar thoughts when it was first heard
hence my excitement
quite different from anything else and not something to simply dust off your ears after it tickles
If you are not from West Texas, you might not know that 'strings' rhymes with 'chains'.
Jerry Reed A+
Yeah, anyone that can rhyme MOSES AND GROCERIES is ok in my book......
Genius
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The original version. Who knew?
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helping john knot bunny ears in the space between shoe eyelets
may i assist your lacest tongue ties sir?
deeper dive into the jerry reeds
it's a beautiful medely before he gets through with it
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and this one is just asking for cheat actions
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Norway only had one tv-channel when I was growing up - they started transmitting at 6 pm (except for weekends when they would start earlier) and ended at midnight. There was a regular schedule each day (news, sports and so on) but every day had a special "thing". Monday was a movie, Tuesday was a theatre-setup, Wednesday was a comedy show... I'm actually not sure if Thursday had a set thing, but Saturday had a a football-match from England and a general entertainment thing in the evening while Sunday was typically sports and an opera-performance.
Friday though, was Crime-night with a detective show - it was shown late at night and way past my bedtime, but I was lucky enough to grow up with awesome parents and I knew that as long as I went to bed at my given bed-time, but still stayed awake, my dad would pop his head in the door and go "You're still awake, huh? Well, you can come out to watch the detective-show" when it started. So I'd bring my duvet to the couch and wrap up in that to watch.
It alternated between different detective shows - there was The Saint with Roger Moore, Kojak, Baretta, Columbo and a lot of others which were all good, but the one we all loved the most and especially hoped for, was Derrick.
Say what you want about the Germans, but dammit, they know how to do detective-shows. And set them to awesome music.
If you already know Derrick, you obviously do not need any background to understand the awesomeness of these tunes.
If you, like I suspect most, do not, you just have to overlook the slightly(?) creepy look of Frank Duval and imagine that you're listening to these songs interwoven into an incredibly moving storyline that you've just watched where people have gotten murdered and brutalized and it's all really sad and touching. And just when everything is at it's most emotional, these songs rise up from the background to drive the point home.
^Nice... I grew up on that LP. I remember when it was first released.
My best friend was a self taught pianist and he could play the Excerpts from the six wives of King Henry the Eighth in its entirety. In the mid 1970's, that pretty much blew everybody's mind back then.
Chris Squires bass work was so cinematic on that track. Bruford was simply the best drummer for several bands.
This is why I love these guys so much...
The Who France 31st March 1966
00:00 1-Substitute.
03:32 2- Man With Money.
06:08 3- Dancing In The Street.
09:46 4- Barbara Ann.
11:54 5- My Generation...
