MarcusR wrote:... Regina Spector - "Songs" (check out the clips, all albums free for online listening! I'm in )...
Spektor. Who can blame you? She can be seen on youtube doing her latest, Fidelity. And she plays bass Overtons (notice the strange pickup mic at the bottom):
OMG I have had to watch that damn music video 1000 times in the cafeteria (they play MTVU). If they keep playing it, I might have to strangle a puppy or something.
Mick O'Brien and Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh - Kitty Lie over
Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin - Touch Me if You Dare
Live at Mona's
Teada
Dervish
Tony O'Connell and Andy Morrow
They Might be Giants
Weird Al
"... you discover that everything is just right: the drones steady and sonorous, the regulators crisp and tuneful and the chanter sweet and responsive. ... I really look forward to those five or six days every year." Robbie Hannan
Oh, yes, wonderful! I have the Skydance Live CD, one of the "Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle" CDs with Paul Machlis and, best of all, "Return to Kintail." The latter has the unbelievably-brilliant guitar-playing of Tony McManus on it too.
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"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
I was looking for something else the other day and found an ancient long-lost, bootlegged cassette of Alastair Anderson, the Northumbrian concertina man, playing a load of Scottish, Irish and Northumbrian tunes and I'm now in the process of listening to it to death to learn all the tunes.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
Last night, while trimming the tree I put on "A winter talisman" by Johnny Cunningham and Susan McKeown. It's so good that subsequently I put on "Peter and Wendy," Johnny's music for the sequal to "Peter Pan." Susan's singing on that is almost breathtaking at times.
There's a performance on the Kennedy Center site that has some of the songs poems and tunes from these:
SteveShaw wrote:I was looking for something else the other day and found an ancient long-lost, bootlegged cassette of Alastair Anderson, the Northumbrian concertina man, playing a load of Scottish, Irish and Northumbrian tunes and I'm now in the process of listening to it to death to learn all the tunes.
Well, it's nice to be reminded! One of the best small-venue concerts I've heard was Alastair Anderson (with fiddles and mandolins) playing the music from his lp "Steel Skies" in a little church here in upstate NY. (Norman & Nancy Blake in the same venue were just as fine.)
Listening to:
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Charles Lloyd, Sangam
The Hammons Family
"Furthermore he gave up coffee, and naturally his brain stopped working." -- Orhan Pamuk
IMHO Bacharach's best work of late (although I don't know if the whole country has been exposed to it) is the commercial he did for GEICO, in which he sits at the piano and provides musical interpretation of a policyholder's successful negotiation of her repair from a rear-end collision. Such a classic line: "I hope I never get hit...in the reeeear again."
Perhaps I liked this so much because my own nearly new car was rear-ended about the same time this commercial started showing up. (Even though the bozo who hit me didn't have GEICO.) Somehow, that line just speaks to me. I too hope I never get hit in the rear again. Don't we all?
True art is just so fundamental and so universal, isn't it?
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