Slid down the rabbit hole watching some cover versions with my wife. She insisted Pentatonix' "sound of silence" was better than the original. I said it couldn't be better because they didn't create anything that wasn't already there. "You just like it better."
Well, I didn't recognize any of the judges, but it did appear to be "The Voice", ala American "The voice." Regardless, I admit I'm biased. I think GNT (Girl Named Tom) did it better on the U.S. version of The Voice. Did I say I was biased? GNT are my cousins.
Went to the Cleveland Auto Show last night with my cousin, who choose the music in our ride on the way home. He put this song on. Man, I haven't heard it in a million years. Great song!
I am fully aware that this video will not mean much to many.
Most are not old enough to know the impact Nat King Cole had on music and society. This type of music is not popular today.
I decided to post this after I watched a documentary on him. It made me remember the impact he had on me as a boy. He still remains to me the greatest singer I have ever heard.
Nat King Cole is one of my absolute favorite singers of all-time. He was also a pretty damn good piano player. Mono Lisa is a wonderful song that Nat recorded perfectly. His rendition of When I Fall in Love is one of the best ever, if not the very best.
Each year during the holiday season, the first Christmas song I play is The Christmas Song and it is also the first song we play when we sit down for dinner on Christmas Eve, which our biggest day of celebration.
Went to the Cleveland Auto Show last night with my cousin, who choose the music in our ride on the way home. He put this song on. Man, I haven't heard it in a million years. Great song!
Excellent. Paul Rodgers is one of my all time favorite vocalists.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
When I was a boy around the age of ten or so. I really had no concept of race. My parents were not prejudice. We lived in Harrisburg, Pa. it was an all white neighborhood. Nat King Cole had a TV show in 1956 and 1957. I watched the show and it never dawned on me the significance that a black man had a TV show.
I just watched the show and thought that Nat King Cole had the best voice I had ever heard. The show was cancelled after 60 weeks even with the highest TV ratings. And the fact that guests like Tony Bennett and Sinatra played for free. It was cancelled because the southern states refused to put the show on TV.
The documentary reinforced my opinion about Nat and it was also felt by many of the giants of music. He was a great jazz piano player. His trio was also one of the first to ever incorporate electric guitar. When you watched Nat play piano and sing. It was like he could play piano with zero thought. His fingers just worked on their own. He would sing and be looking sideways at the camera while playing piano. He would never even look at the keys.
He was am amazing talent who had an incredible impact on music and black history.
I have been a huge Billie Holiday fan since I first really listened to her when I was in college.
i have damn near everything she ever recorded in remastered CD's.
The Ken Burns film Jazz covers Billie extensively. It fascinates me to listen to those who played with her. Bradford Marsalis said his dream was only to play behind her.
My favorite recordings of Billie are with Lester Young on sax.
Her voice was small. She was not "big mouth" singer with projection. She was a stylist with a voice that sunk into you. Her phrasing and pitch were unique to her alone.
There are times when I will listen only to her for a week or so. I imagine being in Harlem back in her day and going to a club to listen to her. The jazz music of her time remains some of my favorite music.
She went through hard times and bad relationships. Died broke and smacked out.
But damn she was great during her prime.
Listening to those who played with her. Reverence, the way she captured an audience. It was told you could hear a pin drop when she sang.
Harlem in her day must have been something. Whites went to Harlem because they loved the music.
Back in the day I'm talking 1964-65. I used to go to Leo's Casino on Euclid Ave. We went to hear MoTown. Stevie Wonder, Smoky, Temptations, The O'Jays were the house band. It was great times. The audience was 60/40 black to white. Never was a problem. Just people loving music.
Chrissy's brother played in the Kent band 15-60-75 the Numbers Band. The lead singer Bob Kidney was a friend. His girl and mine were high school buddies from Kent.
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The Pretenders recorded this song. It is so strange to me to see and listen to this song. It does seem possible to see Bob now. I found this video and it was the first time I saw Bob since 1970.
He was a terrific singer and harp player. I had some connections in music and wanted to manage the band. He had no interest in going on the road and doing the things needed to "make it."
He spent the next 50 years pretty much right in Kent.
IIRC, MTV actually had some pretty good, extended, late night programs at the time: 120 minutes, Headbangers Ball, Liquid TV. I guess all that sort of stuff is on the internet now.
At any rate =
Gotta go back to the mid-80's again when, I think, music videos were sort of novel.
Strange to wrap my head around the 40 or so years since I saw this one. A little grimey and raw:
He was a terrific singer and harp player. I had some connections in music and wanted to manage the band. He had no interest in going on the road and doing the things needed to "make it."
He spent the next 50 years pretty much right in Kent.
The world needs people like him. World-class talent that stays near home deepens the cultural landscape of places that aren't on both coasts.
Additionally, many artists have their own definition of "making it." Not everyone wants the grueling, solo life of the artist/entertainer who spends month of his life on the road, promoting the next money-maker for the label that owns his contract.
Most musicians/artists do what they do because they are called to the Art, not to garner fame and/or fortune.
*Edit* I wrote this post before listening to either vid you posted of your pal Bob. Went back and watched both- in chronological, not thread order. The youthful Bob was "talent in training." The mature Bob sang with the same gravitas as Johnny Cash, when he covered Trent Reznor's "Hurt." A lot of Life and learning transpired between those two performances, and it shows. That is the true mark of a artist: one who never stops exploring, reaching, and finding new ways to give voice to that which lives inside, bursting to get out.
Almost exactly a year ago, I flew to Phoenix to visit one of my Best Friends in Life.
We became best buds back in the early 80's. 2 years of everyday face time on the job, and we became friends for life. Absolutely brilliant musician. Deep intellectual. Multi-layered personality, with a deliciously malicious wit. The last time I visited him in PHX was the week when John Lennon was slain in front of the Dakota. I flew out last year, because he'd been telling me of his cognitive decline, and informed me that he didn't know how much longer he'd still be himself.
I was there for a day, when he said he'd invited his longtime local music pal over to jam for the evening. I didn't have my cello, but he owned a mandolin, which I could play reasonably well (it's tuned just like a violin, so there is a 'family familiarity' that allows me to get around on the instrument). I'd been hearing about this brother ever since By moved out there, so I was keen to meet. Turns out, he'd heard a ton about me as well. Years of anecdotal stories from our times in the trenches, and all.
So, dinner's wrapping up, and My Boy & his wife are talking while plates are being scraped, and clean-up is underway.
[She]: I wonder which Al will show up- Big Al, or Little Al.' [He]: "My guess is 'Transitional Al'... there's a new tour coming up- but he loves him some some eats..."
The doorbell rings.
She opens the door, and yells, "Big Al! long time, bro!" By starts laughing. "I guess he's not slimming down for the tour yet-" A big Hispanic dude with curly, shoulder-length salt&pepper hair, a guitar and a huge, broad, blindingly-white smile walks in, and gives massive bear hugs to She & He. It had been a good long while since they'd all been together, but it had the feel of "Old Home Week." He then looks at me and says, "So you're the infamous Clem I've heard so much about, all these years. Did you bring your axe?"
"Axe" is a slang word for musical instrument in the Jazz world... it refers to the tool we use to chop/shred wood (music on paper... 'going to the woodshed' means getting deep into practicing).
[me]: "Nope. I wasn't paying for an extra seat on the plane, and I'll never trust My Girl to baggage handlers. But I think I can limp around on this little piece of crap your boy has lyin' around his crib-
Big Hispanic Dude LHAO, looks at My Boy and says, "He's just as advertised." He then sticks out his hand as says, "I'm Al. Glad to meet a fellow playa." Note: as we shook hands, he specifically made a point to NOT say, "player." That's when you know that your reputation has preceded you. Using the "er" pronunciation is a secret, coded pronunciation for "pretender."
For the next 3 hours, a happy noise was made at My Friend's home. 3 bros did stuff together that most Dawgtalkers Folks could only imagine for themselves.
At one point, Byron looked at me and said, "My two favorite musicians, making noise with me. What a great night!" When it was done, and Big Hispanic Dude had left to go home, She came up to me and said, "This was the happiest I've seen him in 3 or more years. You guys helped me to get My Baby back... even if for only one night."
And then, she hugged me as if her life was at stake. I lost contact with My Dear Friend in the Summer of 2022.
AZ Brown: I had just spent that entire evening throwing down notes with Al Ortiz, bass player for Stevie Nick's touring band.
Here he is, with my bass-playin' bro, Byron Lipkins, in a cover of Midnight Rider (Allman Bros Band). Byron Plays With Al
I will say that for some reason the voices of Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks blended probably better than almost any I've ever heard. I'll also say that, even though some people may not like it, I think the best music Ozzy and Steven Tyler ever made was when they were wasted as hell.
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I completely agree. I really disliked any studio stuff Aerosmith did after 1982. Their "Live Bootleg" album is still one of my favorite live rock albums of all time. Just listening to that one, you can tell there was some hooch and blow helping out the effort. A good, sleazy album. Funny how things work out.
With the exception of Midnight Special, I don't remember watching much good music on the three available TV channels in the 70s. I wonder what music videos would have looked like as a true commodity in the decade before MTV.
I feel a little late on this one, and I may be the only one who likes this, but what the heck.
Judith Durham passed last summer and I didn't say anything then. She had a wonderful voice. This to me sums it up and is a feel good song from days gone by.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
I think there is some good stuff out there, but they just aren't popular. I know you like Melody Gardot. There are others like Beth Hart, Caro Emerald, etc.....but most folks have never even heard of them.
In a word, today's music is shallow. The pop stuff is so horrible that I can't even listen to it. I have tried to like Rap, but it's also lacking depth and most of it is vulgar. I'm glad I was able to be alive during the 60s and 70s. I enjoyed some of the stuff from the 80s and recently have found an appreciation for some of the female artists of the 90s, such as Suzanne Vega. I also enjoyed a lot of the music my parents listened to, such as the guy you brought up earlier--Nat King Cole--and many of the other great artists of that time period.
I actually spend quite a bit of time making new playlists. It's fun in that brings back great memories and I then can enjoy playlists that fit my mood and/or activities. I made a new I Got the Blues playlist over the last couple of days. Great stuff from John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters all the way through to guys like Alvin Lee, Joe B, and Gary Moore.
I've always been more about how lyrics and vocals can make you feel the music. I also think a great guitar player can accomplish that same thing. And while there's still music coming out that does that, the older I get the more trouble I have relating to much of it. But then it was the same way for my dad when I listened to my music in the 70's so I'm thinking that's sort of the natural order of things. This was a group that did exactly that. While I'm showing a single video, it took me back to a time when you could be an album and play the entire thing through without wanting to miss a single track on the entire album.
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This is a really underrated, under appreciated band from the 90’s, Bighead Todd and the Monsters. They were great live. Their album Strategem is a VERY good listen.
This is an artist right out of Cleveland I've always thought was overlooked and surprised I had never seen any of his music on any of these video threads. I would post a live video but it's hard to quite portray all of his skills that way. In this recording he plays all of the instruments and puts it all together. I find his talent to be amazing.
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The title cut to the CD "The Guitarsonist", written, recorded and produced by Rick Ray. All instruments by Rick Ray. Released in 2002 on Neurosis Records. Available at www.rickray.net
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This was a song I used to emotionally abuse myself with while I was going through a rough breakup with my first true love. I had started drinking, hard. It was pretty much my bottom. This song, and the entire Jar of Flies album was my cudgel. I’m glad I made it out alive. Unfortunately not everyone does. This performer is testimony to just such a tragedy.
These guys… I saw them in ‘92 before Dirt was released. Just before they got huge. They were loud as all hell. They were different. Live they were powerful, emotional, raw. The heavy metal of grunge.
Layne was a beast. Jerry has had access to the best singers in the world and as much as he’s tried… AIC can’t replace him. Around 2:25 through to 3:30 or so… goosebumps. This is from 1990. He was 23 years old in this video. Crazy.
Okay… so these guys… talk about defining my early 90’s experience. I caught them live a couple times around Nothing Shocking. Which I consider one of the best albums of the 90’s. They were rock and roll infused with the LA drug scene at the time. Raw, weird, powerful, in your face…
Early Jane’s with Flea on bass… Perry and Dave it sweating out. You could probably have licked them and gotten higher than you’d ever been. Lol
I love AIC. Layne Staley is one of my fav if not all-time fav vocalists.
Saw Jane's Addiction one year at Lollapalooza. I don't know what year it was but NIN was on the bill (they were awesome), if that helps. I really liked Janes Addiction back then too, was looking forward to seeing them play. Perry Ferrell sang so out of key (just like in the video posted above) I had a bad acid trip. I just wasn't expecting that.
Re: Layne Staley. He and Jerry Cantell had great harmonies. The new front man in AiC is surprisingly good.
Re: Jane's Addiction. Those first 3 albums (self, nothing, ritual) were truly some of the best alt rock albums of the time, and they have held up well. Their last 2 albums, I didn't really for. They have a really good live DVD called Live Voodoo (from Halloween night in New Orleans) some years back. I liked it very much. He didn't sound so out of tune on that one.
You’re right, Jane’s albums hold up. They have a distinct ‘90’s sound but they aren’t dated by it. Partly because of how unique it was. Bands like Faster Pussycat were what was on the rise in LA in the late 80’s. Then here comes these weirdos out of nowhere. Perry Ferrell was just different. Their song writing was more raw, emotionally and sonically complex, and generally more nuanced than the fading glitz, glamour, and ‘guitar god’ style of hair metal. Thankfully bands like Jane’s help put a nail in hair metal for good. Yuck.
We just got to hang out for a bit. I don't get to spend the time with her and my son as I would like. We had a week in December.
Jade is a dedicated fantastic musician. Talented in every aspect of music. She has become really integrated into my family. My daughter and her have become super tight as friends. All of us treasure our time together.
Thought you might have a comment about Nat King Cole and Billie Hollday.
Every one loved Nat Cole's singing voice, but he was was a vocal heart throb, he was a Jazz pianist at the top of his generation's class. He not only played things that could drop your jaw, he also made it look childishly easy and elegant as h#.
Look what he was able to do with the old standard chestnut "Tea for Two":
I'll talk about Ms. Holliday in another post. She deserves her own space.
For me as a kid watching him. I thought he was just so cool.
His voice was pure silk. He had impeccable pronunciation and voice articulation.
Then like you said. When he played piano. His hands danced over the keys.
I think back to when his show was on a black and white TV. I never thought of him in racial terms even though he stood alone as a black man with a TV show.
I only saw him as being a great musician and singer.
I caught him at a bluegrass festival on a side stage in 2016. He was obviously talented but the last couple of years he’s really come on. He’s filling the biggest concert halls in the country now. He’s on the edge of stadium level shows… as a traditional bluegrass artist. Crazy.
It certainly sounds crazy on the surface. But I sort of liken it to what Stevie Ray Vaughan did for the blues. It was quite uncommon at the time to have a blues artist so popular but he helped bring blues back into the forefront. Maybe not the exact same circumstances but similar IMO.
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There’s been a growing bluegrass/newgrass scene riding the coat tails of the Dead scene. Jerry had Old and in the Way. Introducing a lot of us (heads) to traditional bluegrass. From that grew an underground jam grass sound. Bands like Leftover Salmon and The String Cheese Incident pushed bluegrass out of the hills and into hippies ears through their weird eclectic take on psychedelia and bluegrass. Band like Yonder Mountain String Band and Greensky Bluegrass bring an updated take on more traditional bluegrass. Etc. None have broken the surfactant of becoming mainstream on any level. Billy is the first to really find a footing there of sorts.
When I was an early 20-something kid, I used to spend hours on the road in my English sports car. I was young/single/healthy af, and had a blue-collar job with an income that other guys were raising families on. I was living in a 2-bed apartment with a/c, cable... and a $160/month rent load. Banking fat cash for the future, invested in the company's stock plan, partying my ass off at the late-nite clubs, and buying toys that were shaming those punx who tried to bully me back in the high school days.
I had a custom cassette rig with an Alpine 4-channel 40W RMS amp mounted under the passenger seat. Alpine 6x9" speakers in the front footwells, Pioneer TSX-9 wedges in the parcel deck behind the seats, Blaupunkt head set under the driver's seat. It was designed to sound good with the ragtop in the down position. A dome of hi-end sound, with the sky as my roofline. It was nothing like the trunk-thumping car stereos of the 90's-present -hip-hop car culture. Loud af sound... clean, full, aimed inward... instead of out into the neighborhood. I rolled my town inside my own soundtrack silo.
This is a live version of the studio recording I played when I was on the road. Three masters in collaboration.
Johnny Mac was a personal hero from his Mahavishnu Orch days. Al was a personal hero from his days with Chick Corea and Return To Forever Paco was a hero from my study of Flamenco in Ethnomusicology 302.
So, when these three broke out with a feature album, I lost my mind.
In this live video, the Director clearly does not know the music/arrangement. [/b] 1. camera angles do not match the music's arrangement 2. tight camera focuses are aimed inappropriately (video footage shows a player comping, when another player- off-camera -is actually playing a solo) 3. Paco De Lucia's second statement of the opening subject 1:36 is played into a dead mic.[/i] Pathetic production values.
Anyway, I submitted this clearly flawed example for two reasons:
1. Video was the thread's criterion. I follow rules. 2. to share the genius that was happening at that time.
DISCLAIMER/FYI: When you finish this vid, I strongly urge you to listen to my second embed. This was the version I was listening to, as I drove my car about the contours of Bellefontaine, Hocking, and SE Ohio- seeking curves and hills... with a 4-speed manual gearbox, swerves, and thrills.
Al DiMeola takes the first solo. Paco DeLuicia takes the second. John McLaughlin takes the third.
...and then, all 3 trade solos, back and forth.
Ain't no shreddin' like Olde Schoole shreddin'.... This is from 1980.
Rock shredders wish they could be this fast/precise. Precision is artistry.
If I'm gonna take the time to share My Craft/My Love with you brethren, I promise to never waste your time. I will only share with you the best of my best.
It has been with me since the first time I heard it.
When I was at MiraCosta junior college in Oceanside, California. I had a studio apartment that was a converted garage. It sat up on a high hill and I could see the ocean in the far distance. There was a table with a chair that I hung my coat on the back of. At night I use to light a oil lamp as the only light. I would play this album. And in my mind the Band was in the room. Every note played through me.
The music tool me away on some voyage where there was only the sound of the music playing.
"Kind of Blue is regarded by many critics as Davis's masterpiece, the greatest jazz record ever recorded, and one of the best albums of all time. Its impact on music, including jazz, rock, and classical genres, has led writers to also deem it one of the most influential albums ever made. The LP was one of fifty recordings chosen in 2002 by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry, and in 2003 it was ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2019, Kind of Blue was certified 5× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of at least five million copies in the United States."
I have heard many people that are career musicians say:
"If I could only have one album to play for life; this would be the one I would choose."
Agreed about "Kind of Blue". Your comment about interpreting things differently when listening to music without words is spot on. This is most definitely in the case of revolutionary jazz.
But being a little bit younger than you, My favorite Miles Davis stuff was the fusion albums with John McLaughlin, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, etc....
Since it's a video thread, this one (in part) seemed to fit:
Karen Carpenter was great singer. She could hit the lows like none other. The best female singer by far IMO. I know that is subjective, but she is at top no mayyer.matter.
She was big bottomed woman. She didn't deserve to die because of that. I wish I could have been there to try to tell her that. It makes me sad she died trying to meet a standard.....such a waste.
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If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
And that's the thing, like you said it is subjective. I was a big Carpenters fan as well. But this being subjective, this this is my favorite female singer.
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Karen Carpenter was great singer. She could hit the lows like none other. The best female singer by far IMO. I know that is subjective, but she is at top no mayyer.matter.
She was big bottomed woman. She didn't deserve to die because of that. I wish I could have been there to try to tell her that. It makes me sad she died trying to meet a standard.....such a waste.
Dude, are you really calling a woman who literally starved herself to death a big bottom woman???? She had body image issues but was underweight if anything, especially at the end. Sad.
I'm a fan of every Miles incarnation. He was a "musician's musician." If you get what he was doing, you're a musician, too- whether you play an instrument or not.
From Bop to his last statements, he has never bored me, and has always challenged me.
Thanks for your vid. That jam was a great example.
My high school best buddy's older brother played played baritone sax in Buddy Rich's band.
He tuned me on to Myles and Coltrane when I was 16. I am now 75.
I have been a fan of Myles all these years. He is my go to playlist guy. His music is so expressive to me. His sound floats.
I get carried away. "Round Midnight" and "Kind of Blue" I wore out the vinyls. Bought them again. When digital music came out and I played those albums off Spotify. I got pissed. It was like half the music was being played.
I still have the vinyls but my turntable doesn't work. So, I bought the CD's.
Love "Sketches in Spain" as well.
In my mind as much as I loved Bebop with Byrd and Dizzy. I thought Myles changed jazz in 1959. I didn't know it in 1959. I learned it 1967 or so when I really got locked into jazz.
I binge music. I will listen to one artist till I feel ready to move on. The two people I come back to all the time are Myles Davis and Billie Holiday.
"Rikki Don't Lose that Number" uses the intro of "Song To My Father."
I'm about the biggest Steely Dan that ever was. I never knew that.
Cool.
I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt on missing a word but that is funny.
I was trying to find some sort of clever response, but of course there is none. The only thing I can say is that I hope I've brought momentary joy into an otherwise lonely day.
There's another song taken from a section of that song that I hear clear as day, but I can't quite figure out the song ... but it's a Stevie Wonder song, IIRC.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
"Rikki Don't Lose that Number" uses the intro of "Song To My Father."
I'm about the biggest Steely Dan that ever was. I never knew that.
Cool.
I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt on missing a word but that is funny.
I was trying to find some sort of clever response, but of course there is none. The only thing I can say is that I hope I've brought momentary joy into an otherwise lonely day.
Let my post be a lesson to us all.
Can we close this thread now?
I did not mean to upset you if I did. I apologize.
As I mentioned earlier, I like songs with a story and someone who can make you feel the story they are telling. While not the most talented singer, Leon Russell was one such artist.
I think that Van Morrison also fits into this category.
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I was going to post that Blind Faith video but chose the Traffic one instead. The BF clip was a very early performance of the song. Steve had a rough time with the chorus vocal. Not knowing much about music theory, my guess is he learned over time to drop the vocal an octave or something so he didn’t have to hit that high note so high.
I agree. I do like this band too but their music is much more simplistic. Being raised on southern rock and blues certainly adds to my attraction to the band.
This one is somewhat different....
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Claptain was God… or so some said. Maybe not God, but God the boy could play. This show is filled with epic guitar rifts and lengthy blues based jams. Here’s 19 minutes of smoke and fire… Let it Rain.
My appreciation of Joe Cocker has really grown over the years. He was an amazing singer and a really nice man.
His wife was a friend to my family for a long time. Pam Cocker's brother George lives with my ex-wife. Joe and Pam bought my son and daughter Christmas gifts. My kids and wife stayed with them in Colorado. Helped them do charity events for kids in the community.
Whenever Joe came to Atlanta we all got tickets and went to his show. My mother-in-law was English. Got to go backstage and chat with Joe. She got a huge charge out of that. It was very sad when he got lung cancer and passed away.
His "Organic" album was outstanding. I remember the concert producer Billy Graham saying he was surprised Joe Cocker lasted because he didn't write his his own material. Joe was a stylist. He brought uniqueness to any version of song he performed.
No real video, but who isn't curious about Ozzie doing "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees?
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
No real video, but who isn't curious about Ozzie doing "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees?
It's tempting to say embarrassing, but hey, if you're getting towards the End (and you've got a lot of money and time) - all the more power to you. Hell, even Johnny Cash was doing this kind of stuff in his last years.
I like the way that song built to a crescendo of sorts along the bass lines..I remember a time getting really high on some really strong weed while in college and listening to the song. It was maybe 4-5 years after it was released, but on those premium JBL speakers it just sucked me in to the speakers deeper and deeper. It was like I heard it for the first time. Now I hear it the same way.
No doubt Simon and Garfunkel could turn their two voices in to one.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
They just don't do it like this anymore. Besides Roy, the band included James Burton and Bruce Springsteen on guitars...I see Jackson Browne, JD Souther, Bonnie Raitt, KD Lange, Elvis Costello and others...
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
I am fully aware that this video will not mean much to many.
Most are not old enough to know the impact Nat King Cole had on music and society. This type of music is not popular today.
I decided to post this after I watched a documentary on him. It made me remember the impact he had on me as a boy. He still remains to me the greatest singer I have ever heard.
This was my mothers song for my dad - played at his funeral and many times since. Thanks for posting.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
I know there will never be another Neill Young, but Jason Isbell is a young artist who reminds me quite a bit of him at least from a lyrical standpoint and in songs such as these also from the standpoint of musical stylings.
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