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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2019 14:42:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 15:09:25 GMT
Emeli Sandé Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2013)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2019 17:09:40 GMT
Can't provide a link but, at the moment, it is a concert by Aretha Franklin recorded in Los Angeles in 1972. Her voice is incredible, the audience really caught up in the performance.
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Post by yankee on Sept 20, 2019 20:20:09 GMT
"Ode to Billy Joe" just came up on the oldies station.
I hadn't heard it in quite sometime. It was a live version (recorded at the BBC btw) and I had forgotten how striking and dark it is. Bobbie Gentry what a talent she had.
Made me wonder once again - what exactly did Preacher Taylor see Bobbie and Billy Joe throwing off of the Talahatchie Bridge???
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2019 21:11:55 GMT
I really like American radio. I used to listen to it all the time. There is so much more variety than British radio.
Bonnie Gentry said once that "Suppose it was a wedding ring."
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Post by linseed on Sept 20, 2019 21:12:52 GMT
I always thought it was their stillborn baby
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Post by Miranda on Sept 20, 2019 21:15:51 GMT
Me too.
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Post by yankee on Sept 20, 2019 21:24:57 GMT
I think that is indeed the long held general concensus. But how would her parents not have known she was pregnant?
Summertime Mississippi you don't wear much clothing. Heck rear round Mississippi you don't wear much clothing. Her baby bump would be prominent.
Then again it could have happened very early on first or second term.
There was a TV film about the song (Robby Benson I think played Billy) and there was a whole sub-plot about Billy having been molested by a shop keep in his youth and he came out as gay to Bobbie and they never consumated their relationship. I could be wrong. Was a LONG time ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2019 11:50:54 GMT
One of the most brilliant music programmes shown on British television, the Transatlantic Sessions. This is season 1.
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Post by yankee on Sept 21, 2019 12:17:58 GMT
Wow that is fabulous! Emmy Lou Harris is living proof a woman can let herself go gray and be ever so stunningly beautiful.
The musicianship with bluegrass players is always so jawdroppingly good. And so many are self taught.
The Beeb has always done such terrific music programming and documentaries. Best ever bar none documentary on country music was a BBC series.
American Ken Burns - he of the stunning civil war doc series - has a series on country / bluegrass / folk coming up which should be good as well. |
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Post by yankee on Sept 21, 2019 12:21:22 GMT
My favorite version of Stairway these days. Robert Plant seemed moved and Barak and Michelle Obama entranced as well.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2019 12:34:21 GMT
I have always liked Emmylou Harris, back from when she first started. I agree about the Ann and Nancy Wilson version of Stairway.
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Post by yankee on Sept 21, 2019 13:10:32 GMT
Led Zep was getting the Kennedy Center Honors at that show. I guess you could say its our version of knighthood.
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Post by yankee on Sept 21, 2019 15:09:27 GMT
People talk about the brilliance of Brian Wilson's song writing (and rightly so), Mike Love as a front man,...but for me, the Beach Boys sound was always about Carl's golden sweet voice.
Love this version too. And what is he doing singing in a restaurant kitchen! Would have loved to be at that show.
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Post by profbooboo on Sept 21, 2019 20:29:50 GMT
I'm not a huge Beach Boys fan, but God Only Knows is an amazing song. It's beautiful in words and music.
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Anymore to come?
