what song are you listening to?
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BOP
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Stumbled on some covers of this song just now. In no particular order:
Joan Baez
The late Mike Seeger, half brother to the legendary folk singer Pete Seeger.
Mike's brother Pete. The sound isn't too bad, but there's a lot of hiss.
Despite the title of the video, this is not Chet Atkins. For those of you who don't know, Atkins is the all-time king of finger-picking, or "finger-style" guitar playing. This is actually Denny Zagar, of Zagar and Evans ("In the Year 2525"), who runs his own guitar building company. He is playing what I can only assume is a Chet Atkins model guitar, made by his company. Either that, or he's calling the style of play "Chet Atkins guitar." Either way, it's pretty good stuff. I like the vocal versions better.
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Retrodeb54
Surely you jest ...
In the 70's she wasn't much my style. In the 80's though, she found a new style and I was hooked. This is one from my favorite album by her "Cry like a Rainstorm Howl like the Wind" to me every song on it was great.
"Shattered"
"Shattered"
BOP
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As usual, I'm not sure how I got to Joan Baez this evening. My web surfing for music is more like purposeful meandering; or it starts out that way, anyway. This is, I believe, from the album Any Day Now, not Baez Sings Dylan as I read somewhere; a song called "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowland." It's a gorgeous song by one of my all-time favorites. I fell in love with Joan Baez back in the '60s, when I first heard her played by my father and his hep cat college friends. This song is probably one of her best efforts, even though Dylan had written it for the woman he left Baez for. That's the thing about Joan Baez, though; nobody sings Dylan like she does. There are a number of reasons for that, including their connectedness, but I think it's because she owns whatever she performs. If you didn't know better, you would think that this song was autobiographical; it fits her that well.
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BOP
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I don' know...I just got here, okay!? Not sure how, but here's where I am.... *le sigh*
My girl Melanie.
Just a girl and a guitar...so powerful, so vulnerable, all at the same time. There's a video of her "Happy Birthday to the Sun" live at Woodstock, where she's a relative unknown, singing her heart out in front of something like 250,000 smelly hippies...er, I mean people. This isn't that song, but it's so poignant.
My girl Melanie.
Just a girl and a guitar...so powerful, so vulnerable, all at the same time. There's a video of her "Happy Birthday to the Sun" live at Woodstock, where she's a relative unknown, singing her heart out in front of something like 250,000 smelly hippies...er, I mean people. This isn't that song, but it's so poignant.
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BOP
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I wish this was an entire video and not the editing hack job that it is. The only reason I'm watching it is because of Pinetop Perkins. Mitch Woods is no slouch, and neither is Caroline Dahl, but Pinetop Perkins was the last of his kind. He came to play the piano, and by gawd, he was ready to play!