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.
sound quality not great but video amazing
sad what happened to Butch Trucks in 2017
seems he said had enough
show me a polyrhythmic duo of drumming brothers better than Jaimoe and Butch
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suggest a focus on the build up towards events occurring right before 2:30 then beyond
warp and weft
bass and clef
four ingredients of the canvas initially woven together establishing foundational structure for subsequent vocal annotative embroidery and gentle needlepoint
I don't understand why asmr-channels on twitch and youtube is a thing when you can just put on Dido or Ellie for all the breathy, airy vocal goodness you could ever desire.
I thought this was Billie Jean when it first came on in the Bridge Hotel in Newcastle this afternoon.
Cover looks like Roker beach looked last night. All the seagulls squawking and shitting everywhere. And the orange moon rising. People don't understand Echo and the Bunnymen. The best things in life are free.
^^^^^^^
Both nice selections .
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in my pursuit phase of who eventually became my first ever gf
i called her house on the phone, her mom answered, i asked to talk to sarah
i then i started playing this song i'd burned onto a cd and held the phone up to the receiver
sarah thought someone left the phone and just had the music on the background - she didn't realize the song was for her and after saying hello twice with no answer she just hung up
i later disclosed that was me, and it took a while for it to click because what had been a big grand gesture for me ended up just being another dropped call she soon forgot about
Some more Garbage.
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I do think Billie Jean has the GOAT bassline, mind.
Since we're taking out Garbage,
Mrs. Saint - big fan.
Another band big with Mrs. Saint,
Blue Light Yokohama played in a scene from a Kore-eda flick that has been stuck in my head for a couple of years.
The great Slowdive are back again and touring for their 2023 album...these are the grandaddies and mamas of shoegaze. Just gorgeous music.
Will be listening today and tomorrow at the Newport Folk Festival. My friend is able to get tickets every year because he's on some special list of long time buyers.
Tickets sold out in five minutes this year.
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Please don't boo Bob Dylan. He's doing the best he can.
Signed,
Mike Bloomfield Fan
