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Post by erik on Nov 4, 2023 22:59:47 GMT -5
Quote by fabtastique:
I totally understand how you feel about how many great artists, including the female ones, are either gone from this world or no longer recording (starting with Linda, of course). What's really sad is how much of what is out there in the mainstream ether is either totally or borderline unmemorable and not really worth listening to.
Our good fellow member cymru56 long ago turned me on to Tift Merritt, and has also recommended Courtney Marie Andrews as well, so there is a lot of hope in at least two of those ladies. So I wouldn't lose too much hope.
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Post by erik on Nov 7, 2023 0:48:54 GMT -5
"The Hanging Tree" from THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES, out in theaters on November 17:
...as performed by the film's character Lucy Gray Baird, Rachel Zegler (Maria in director Steven Spielberg's 2021 re-imagining of West Side Story), here sounding a bit like a cross between Linda and Joan Baez (IMHO).
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Post by Partridge on Nov 7, 2023 1:40:12 GMT -5
I listened to some classic albums tonight-
Rubber Soul Revolver the track For No One by Emmylou Harris Desperado- album One of These Nights- album
Definitely I prefer the Eagle's version of Desperado over the Ronstadt version on Don't Cry Now, although I find multiple live versions by Linda to be the best.
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Post by MokyWI on Nov 7, 2023 6:22:39 GMT -5
I spun the One Of These Nights album by the Eagles and Abbey Road album by the Beatles myself yesterday.
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Post by erik on Nov 11, 2023 0:45:04 GMT -5
Duel, the classic 1971 made-for-TV psychological thriller about an average auto motorist (Dennis Weaver) relentlessly stalked on a California highway by an unseen but clearly unhinged truck driver, was the film that firmly put Steven Spielberg on the Hollywood map forever, and for good reason. Besides Spielberg's direction, Weaver's hugely credible performance, and a very taut screenplay by Richard Matheson (of I Am Legend fame), this film is distinguished by a very dissonant score from veteran composer Billy Goldenberg, who worked on Elvis' 1968 NBC-TV special. It fully captures the terror and the madness that Weaver's beleaguered character feels, with the influences of Stravinsky, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Bernard Herrmann interspersed. A brilliant sonic backdrop to one of the most realistically frightening movies ever made, for TV or the big screen.
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Post by erik on Nov 22, 2023 9:19:33 GMT -5
It has now been sixty years since President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was gunned down in the streets of Dallas; and on this solemn anniversary, here is a work by the contemporary American composer Peter Lieberson, "Remembering JFK". Richard Dryefuss is the speaker in this live recording from 2011, made at the performing arts center named after the slain president, with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C. under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach:
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Post by Dianna on Feb 20, 2024 21:54:55 GMT -5
Ghost; a Rock band from Sweden. Been around since 2006. I love this song. Very 80's IMO This song is from 2019 "Mary On A Cross," and I just discovered them. Love it.
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Post by erik on Feb 20, 2024 23:53:01 GMT -5
Having re-watched director Baz Luhrmann's 2022 epic Elvis over the President's Day weekend, it only seems appropriate to spotlight this particular song by The King.
Back in 1968, Elvis, doing his NBC-TV special, quoted to the show's producer Steve Binder what a preacher once told him: "When things are too dangerous to say, sing." The result?:
In a career that, for all the machinations made by The Colonel that so stifled his ambitions, still had many more high points than low points, this was an unquestionable high point. "If I Can Dream" brought Elvis back to relevance and reverence, making it to #12 on the Hot 100 in January 1969, his highest-charting hit since 1965's "Crying In The Chapel".
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Post by rick on Mar 8, 2024 7:08:34 GMT -5
This has been one of my favorite album cuts by The Manhattan Transfer. It’s called “The Shaker Song.” TMT vocalist Janis Siegel said she thought one of the most clever aspects of the song is that instead of “Shaker,” one of the lyrics is “he can’t shake her.” One of my favorite lines is “Guys are spinnin’ girls like 45s.”
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Post by erik on Mar 8, 2024 21:34:28 GMT -5
Iceland-born jazz/pop singer Laufey, who won the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Album (for Bewitched) just a month ago, has gotten a lot of attention as of late. Okay, maybe not Taylor/Beyonce attention, but significant enough just the same. Here is a track of hers, "Falling Behind":
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Post by erik on Apr 11, 2024 18:08:25 GMT -5
Another great find here. This one is by Kimmi Bitter, a highly eclectic, more or less Americana-type, singer/songwriter from Oceanside (in San Diego County) who here shows a deep affinity for the Nashville Sound of the period from 1957 to 1964. This song is "Aquamarine", which is a fair approximation of Patsy Cline on the beach:
Kimmi is also influenced, incidentally, by the late 1960's San Francisco psychedelic sound, as well as...wait for it...Linda.
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Post by Dianna on Apr 12, 2024 4:02:08 GMT -5
Iceland-born jazz/pop singer Laufey, who won the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Album (for Bewitched) just a month ago, has gotten a lot of attention as of late. Okay, maybe not Taylor/Beyonce attention, but significant enough just the same. Here is a track of hers, "Falling Behind": Very nice and relaxing music. Reminds me a bit of this style.
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