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"Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" by Spirit.

Great music to listen to with headphones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0CkJ8Ly1co
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On Amazon Prime, check out the incredible David Byrne of the Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense.
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Apparently almost no posters, other than me, listen to new music. But....

I highly recommend Kendrick Lamar's Damn. It is the only popular music album to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Listen to the intensity of his rapping at about 3:00. It's fortunate that the video has subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZRYQMLDW4
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Petrocelli wrote: Tue May 25, 2021 5:34 pm Apparently almost no posters, other than me, listen to new music. But....
That's not true at all. There's a lot more commentary on the old stuff, I suspect, because more of us have familiarity with that music in common. New stuff gets mentioned, too.

I don't know rap at all.

The new stuff I listen to tends to be more roots music, folk, bluegrass. Some of it's really creative music, but also the kind of music that you'd probably be hard-pressed to tell whether it was old or new, unless you already knew it.
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I tripped over this a few years ago but tripped over it in my youtube looking up some of the above.... Procol Harum.... 40 years after it was recorded.... Brooker's voice is amazing....
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Petrocelli wrote: Tue May 25, 2021 5:34 pm Apparently almost no posters, other than me, listen to new music. But....

I highly recommend Kendrick Lamar's Damn. It is the only popular music album to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Listen to the intensity of his rapping at about 3:00. It's fortunate that the video has subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZRYQMLDW4
I do listen to some new music, but not rap or hip hop. I just don’t get it, wrong generation. They say your taste in music and style of dress crystallizes when you come of age, it’s been true in my case. They also say that each generation hates the next generation’s music. I think that’s generally true.
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Less than a year old:

Not Our First Goat Rodeo

Yo-Yo Ma · Stuart Duncan · Edgar Meyer · Chris Thile

The best of the best...

This piece is so beautiful. The refrain sounds like it could have been used in Burns' Civil War documentary: Waltz Whitman

I just found this treasure poking around after reading about Chris Thile's latest work in this new, excellent NYT profile: The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile
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Ben Vaughn's Imitation Wood Grain and Other Folk Songs, from 2018 so it's sort of recent. It is "new" for me :)
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Video Killed The Radio Star, in hindsight thinking this was just a stupid MTV launch song, I now think it was a pretty good song. And for not playing it in 25 years, they nailed it live here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUgF49Rtg7Q
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Blue Heron Suite — Sarah Jarosz https://youtu.be/ITxj4FtZwfo
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novicemoney wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:07 pm This peaked my interest as I am a fan of the group Po' Girl. Allison Russell was a duo first with Trish Klein (of The Be Good Tanyas) and then with Awna Texeira. The group was a sort of in the indie/folkie genre.
This is Allison singing harmony vocals go Trish Kleins vocals. I believe that's Allison also playing clarinet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnOa9M9aOjc

Here is Allison singing lead vocals with Awna Texeira:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlRBDSLpAqc
I think Po'Girl was Allison's main gig until she formed Birds of Chicago with her husband. Now maybe there are 5 of us on the forum who knows who Birds of Chicago are. :happy
novicemoney,

I've really been enjoying those two older 'Po Girl albums: Vagabond Lullabies (2004) and Home To You (2007). There's a really nice vibe to their music. I've been playing them quite a lot. Thanks so much for turning me on to them!

Did you catch Allison Russell last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live? She's helped out by Brittney Spencer and Brandi Carlile. (And her husband/musical partner JT Nero backs her up on guitar. :wink: )

Wonderful to see her get the exposure! Great performance. The vocals a bit more prominent than on most of the 'Po Girl stuff I've been playing, but the similarities are unmistakable.

From her brand new album, Outside Child: Allison Russell ft. Brittney Spencer & Brandi Carlile – Nightflyer (on Jimmy Kimmel Live)
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Petrocelli wrote: Tue May 25, 2021 5:34 pm Apparently almost no posters, other than me, listen to new music. But....

I highly recommend Kendrick Lamar's Damn. It is the only popular music album to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Listen to the intensity of his rapping at about 3:00. It's fortunate that the video has subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZRYQMLDW4
Awesome talent!

But, here is the problem with most rap: I can't have something like that playing unless I am alone. A lot of my music listening is on my driveway, listening to my garage set-up. Neighbors see me outside, they stop to talk.

And, having a mother, a wife, and daughters, I find the disrespect most rappers show to women via their lyrics is off-putting, to say the least.

In short, I am not willing to shovel through a ton of manure to find some rap that is unlike most rap, talent notwithstanding.

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I'm still blown away by this performance:

Amythyst Kiah – Black Myself
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Broken Man 1999 wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 8:17 am
And, having a mother, a wife, and daughters, I find the disrespect most rappers show to women via their lyrics is off-putting, to say the least.
Agree 100%. But...

Most of the best rappers these days are not anti-women. That may have been true 10 or 20 years ago, but not today.

I'm going to post a couple rap songs with lyrics. Three different styles of rap. Check them out.

i by Kendrick Lamar (with a riff from the Isley Brothers' That Lady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhtu-QiVUfs

Rainforest by Noname:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_oESyfV7w

Royal We by Run the Jewels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHxQh4Aqic8
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Petrocelli wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 1:02 pm
Broken Man 1999 wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 8:17 am
And, having a mother, a wife, and daughters, I find the disrespect most rappers show to women via their lyrics is off-putting, to say the least.
Agree 100%. But...

Most of the best rappers these days are not anti-women. That may have been true 10 or 20 years ago, but not today.

I'm going to post a couple rap songs with lyrics. Three different styles of rap. Check them out.

i by Kendrick Lamar (with a riff from the Isley Brothers' That Lady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhtu-QiVUfs

Rainforest by Noname:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_oESyfV7w

Royal We by Run the Jewels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHxQh4Aqic8
apparently you just really like rap.
and apparently, not many people here do.
that's not surprising to me.
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iceport wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 12:31 pm I'm still blown away by this performance:

Amythyst Kiah – Black Myself
Excellent! I think I heard it mentioned up thread as well but worth a reminder so I would listen again! :beer
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batpot wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 1:23 pm
apparently you just really like rap.
and apparently, not many people here do.
that's not surprising to me.
Actually, I like all types of music. I track my Spotify listening on Lastfm.com. Here are my most listened to albums over the last 365 days, all of which I recommend:

1. Sturgill Simpson - Cutting Grass (Bluegrass)
2. Kendrick Lamar - Damn (Rap)
3. Taylor Swift - Evermore (pop)
4. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (indie rock)
5. Run the Jewels - RTJ4 (rap)
6. Vienna Philharmonic - Mozart: Wind Concertos and Serenades (classical)
7. Taylor Swift - Folklore (pop)
8. Afred Brendel - Beethoven: Complete Sonatas and Concertos (classical)

And I get that a lot of older people don't like rap. But my parents didn't like Hendrix, Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, or the Rolling Stones, so I understand.
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iceport wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 12:31 pm I'm still blown away by this performance:

Amythyst Kiah – Black Myself
Great stuff! Looked on Spotify for her, but she hasn't released an album since 2013.
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Petrocelli wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 2:33 pm
iceport wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 12:31 pm I'm still blown away by this performance:

Amythyst Kiah – Black Myself
Great stuff! Looked on Spotify for her, but she hasn't released an album since 2013.
:thumbsup Glad you liked it! Musical taste is so unique to every one of us... you never know what will resonate.

I don't know much about Amethyst Kiah. Her presence on YouTube isn't huge, but there are a few more recent tunes. I started hearing her tune — Black Myself — last year about this time (local college station, Folk Alley), as one of Kiah's contributions to the Our Native Daughters Project (2019) with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla and Allison Russell. She's an incredibly inspired musician.
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Petrocelli wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 2:30 pm 1. Sturgill Simpson - Cutting Grass (Bluegrass)
I know nothing of Simpson, but I've been curious about this album after hearing about it. Your mention made me finally look it up. I didn't realize he scored such stellar group of musicians to back him up! I know several of them from their own successful careers. I like it so far! Very fine instrumentals, of course, but Simpson's got a great voice, too!

Mike Bub – upright bass
Stuart Duncan – fiddle, background vocals
Mark Howard – background vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar
Sierra Hull – mandolin, background vocals
Miles Miller – percussion, background vocals
Tim O'Brien – background vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar
Sturgill Simpson – vocals, rhythm guitar
Scott Vestal – banjo, background vocals

I took to bluegrass immediately as a young tike — as introduced through the Grateful Dead...
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Petrocelli wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 1:02 pm
Broken Man 1999 wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 8:17 am
And, having a mother, a wife, and daughters, I find the disrespect most rappers show to women via their lyrics is off-putting, to say the least.
Agree 100%. But...

Most of the best rappers these days are not anti-women. That may have been true 10 or 20 years ago, but not today.

I'm going to post a couple rap songs with lyrics. Three different styles of rap. Check them out.

i by Kendrick Lamar (with a riff from the Isley Brothers' That Lady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhtu-QiVUfs

Rainforest by Noname:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_oESyfV7w

Royal We by Run the Jewels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHxQh4Aqic8
Thanks for the links! I'll check them out today.

I have never doubted rappers talent, the difficulty of actually getting the lyrics out without stumbling is something I couldn't do.

I see you are a Taylor Swift fan, also. Having pre-teen granddaughters I have every CD she has recorded, except the last two. I have Amazon Unlimited Music so I have stopped purchasing CDs. Granddaughters have both been to see her. Very big fans.

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iceport wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 9:38 pm
Petrocelli wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 2:30 pm 1. Sturgill Simpson - Cutting Grass (Bluegrass)
I know nothing of Simpson, but I've been curious about this album after hearing about it. Your mention made me finally look it up. I didn't realize he scored such stellar group of musicians to back him up! I know several of them from their own successful careers. I like it so far! Very fine instrumentals, of course, but Simpson's got a great voice, too!

Mike Bub – upright bass
Stuart Duncan – fiddle, background vocals
Mark Howard – background vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar
Sierra Hull – mandolin, background vocals
Miles Miller – percussion, background vocals
Tim O'Brien – background vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar
Sturgill Simpson – vocals, rhythm guitar
Scott Vestal – banjo, background vocals

I took to bluegrass immediately as a young tike — as introduced through the Grateful Dead...
I first started listening to Bluegrass because of Jerry Garcia's Old and In the Way. It's still one of my favorite genres. (I'm probably one of the few 60 year olds that listens to both bluegrass and rap.)

Sturgill Simpson is an interesting musician. He started out as kind of a straight honky-tonk country artist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgTErJXeMVM

He then ventured towards rock and even did a cover of Nirvana's In Bloom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDYfkymaSE

The next album was akin to 70s rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9jl5cLIMuM

Now he's doing bluegrass. Go figure...

One of my favorites
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Broken Man 1999 wrote: Fri May 28, 2021 8:08 am
I see you are a Taylor Swift fan, also. Having pre-teen granddaughters I have every CD she has recorded, except the last two. I have Amazon Unlimited Music so I have stopped purchasing CDs. Granddaughters have both been to see her. Very big fans.

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I think Taylor Swift is the best songwriter out there right now. I highly recommend Folklore. It's almost all acoustic, and really a nice listen. Here's a couple tracks if you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-a8s8OLBSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn_0zPAfyo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsEZmictANA
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sycamore wrote: Tue May 25, 2021 5:06 pm "Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" by Spirit.

Great music to listen to with headphones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0CkJ8Ly1co
Excellent album. I was lucky enough to see Spirit live back in the day. Randy California in particular made quite an impression on me.
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Sarah Shook and the Disarmers...alt-country from North Carolina.
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mindboggling wrote: Fri May 28, 2021 5:27 pm Sarah Shook and the Disarmers...alt-country from North Carolina.
Listening to it now. This is great stuff!
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Am listening to a deep house summer hits 2021 playlist. It's basically relaxing chill-out music.

Was listening to a 90's playlist last night that did have some rap/hip-hop, but it was of the "wholesome" kind. I'm talking about Heavy D and the Boyz. Strong driving beat but totally conventional love-song lyrics with a bit of self-deprecation thrown in because Heavy D was, well, overweight.

As for 2010's/2020's music, I'm not a fan of 100% straight rap, but a little rap intermixed with regular pop goes down well with me. It can balance out some of the sacchariney sweet female vocals found these days in pop.
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Watching/listening to the Kerrville Folk Festival streaming now on YouTube, Facebook, and the KFF website.
Combination of live, recorded, and virtual performances. It continues for several more hours. Also will be restreamed next Saturday.
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Petrocelli wrote: Fri May 28, 2021 10:14 am
iceport wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 9:38 pm I took to bluegrass immediately as a young tike — as introduced through the Grateful Dead...
I first started listening to Bluegrass because of Jerry Garcia's Old and In the Way. It's still one of my favorite genres. (I'm probably one of the few 60 year olds that listens to both bluegrass and rap.)
That was my crossover album, too! I was 13 when it came out. I think the three original Rowan tunes and the Stones cover helped ease me into the genre. (I still have the vinyl.) That led to Grisman and the Dawg Music sub-genre, and Tony Rice, before pretty much abandoning bluegrass through college years and maybe 10 years beyond... due to other priorities.

Then a relative of one of my dearest friends started his own bluegrass festival on a picturesque dairy farm in the Appalachian foothills of Western Mass, and that led to a far deeper and broader appreciation that has endured.

The festival was enormously successful, and booked a heaping handful of some of the very best national touring bluegrass acts every year. They included a nice mix of traditional and more progressive bluegrass bands, including several fine female artists like Laurie Lewis & Grant Street, and some regional and local talent, also. It was really a special event that grew rapidly in prominence, but it came to an abrupt end after 5 or 6 years. Ronnie McCoury even named a traditional instrumental tune after it: Noppet Hill Breakdown.

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On the whole rap thing, I'm not sure I buy that the somewhat simplistic generational incompatibility explanation applies to me. I'm open to the possibility, but I tend to think of it more along the lines of auditory repulsion. Take David Lee Roth, as another example. His shrill screeching turned what would have been music I could take or leave into music that I found painfully repulsive. As I found myself having to endure the endless replay of Van Halen tunes in the '80s, I would often wonder whether Roth managed to be to annoyingly obnoxious inadvertently, or if it was really his whole point. Well, I wonder exactly the same thing about the vast majority of rap music. I can't tolerate opera, either, but it's obvious to me that it's not supposed to annoy me. I just can't tell with rap music. If being annoying is intentional, well, mission accomplished!

At any rate, anytime I find myself wondering whether an artist is annoying me on purpose or by accident, I'm generally not inclined to want to hear more of it... the end result is the same either way: it gives me a headache.

Petrocelli wrote: Fri May 28, 2021 10:14 am Sturgill Simpson is an interesting musician. He started out as kind of a straight honky-tonk country artist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgTErJXeMVM

He then ventured towards rock and even did a cover of Nirvana's In Bloom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDYfkymaSE

The next album was akin to 70s rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9jl5cLIMuM

Now he's doing bluegrass. Go figure...

One of my favorites
Thanks for the sampling. I'm already a fan!

Honest, heartfelt music.
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iceport wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 8:07 pm
novicemoney wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:07 pm This peaked my interest as I am a fan of the group Po' Girl. Allison Russell was a duo first with Trish Klein (of The Be Good Tanyas) and then with Awna Texeira. The group was a sort of in the indie/folkie genre.
This is Allison singing harmony vocals go Trish Kleins vocals. I believe that's Allison also playing clarinet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnOa9M9aOjc

Here is Allison singing lead vocals with Awna Texeira:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlRBDSLpAqc
I think Po'Girl was Allison's main gig until she formed Birds of Chicago with her husband. Now maybe there are 5 of us on the forum who knows who Birds of Chicago are. :happy
novicemoney,

I've really been enjoying those two older 'Po Girl albums: Vagabond Lullabies (2004) and Home To You (2007). There's a really nice vibe to their music. I've been playing them quite a lot. Thanks so much for turning me on to them!

Did you catch Allison Russell last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live? She's helped out by Brittney Spencer and Brandi Carlile. (And her husband/musical partner JT Nero backs her up on guitar. :wink: )

Wonderful to see her get the exposure! Great performance. The vocals a bit more prominent than on most of the 'Po Girl stuff I've been playing, but the similarities are unmistakable.

From her brand new album, Outside Child: Allison Russell ft. Brittney Spencer & Brandi Carlile – Nightflyer (on Jimmy Kimmel Live)
I really liked "Nightflyer". The live performance has a lot more energy than the recorded one, but I downloaded it anyway(still a great song). Have just gotten into Allison Russells work with "Birds of Chicago" because of this thread and am really liking some of their stuff.

Ironically, I have just been getting into Brandi Carlile. "The Story" pushed her into stardom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8pQLtHTPaI
but she is solid on her other albums. Here she is with "Dreams"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSBl8zD9J_M
The woman's got a set of pipes. It's funny, another poster stated that people don't listen to "new music". The Brandi Carlile tracks I listed are from 2007 and 2009, yet she remained a complete mystery to me until recently (sometimes you feel like you are living in a cave). I guess something old can be new if you have never heard it before. Really like this thread as it has exposed me to all sorts of music.
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I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry — B.J. Thomas (R.I.P.) written by Hank Williams. I’ve always liked this song.

(Untitled)/(Unissued) — The Byrds
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novicemoney wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 11:37 pm Ironically, I have just been getting into Brandi Carlile. "The Story" pushed her into stardom
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The woman's got a set of pipes.
Yes, she's got a really unique sound. Great singer. Great songwriter, too, though on that front I personally find her less consistent. But she's written some real gems.

I still remember how I learned who she was. Dry sunny day. Trimming the yews by the front door. Loudspeaker by my side streaming a live FM broadcast. Then this song came on:

Brandi Carlile - That Wasn't Me (Official Video)

By the middle of that tune I was stopped in my tracks, spellbound. So poignant.

So *that's* Brandi Carlile!?! Wow. She's for real, not just another fly-by-night pop singer.

(Up to that point I just kept thinking, "Gee, wasn't her name Belinda?" :oops: )
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Another vote for Brandi Carlile. I started listing to her a long time ago , a la The Story. I've liked her other work, but was especially impressed by her 2018 album, By the Way I Forgive You. The 2019 Grammy's gave her several awards for it. I like The Joke, and the title track and most of the rest.

I'm listening to the album now. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... Ic6GcHOFdc
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Johnny Cash - Man in Black

(live on The Johnny Cash TV Show, February, 1971)

Each week we lose a hundred fine young men
And, I wear it for the thousands who have died
Believing that the Lord was on their side
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died
Believing that we all were on their side


"A few weeks later, during an end-of-episode monologue, Cash played Man in Black again, dedicating it to a group of servicemen from Kentucky who came to see the show at the Ryman. There could be no mistaking Cash’s association of the song with the war and American servicemen. After the camera panned to show the men in uniform, Cash said: 'This is my uniform. For four years I wore the uniform of the United States Air Force; now they call me the man in black.' "

— Michael Stewart Foley, writing in the Guardian today.
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Nicolas wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 11:47 pm I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry — B.J. Thomas (R.I.P.) written by Hank Williams. I’ve always liked this song.
Check out this version by the Cowboy Junkies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJt9KFyJnbk

The album it's on, The Trinity Sessions, is outstanding.
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I just listened to the most recent Bogleheads on Investing podcast with guest Dr. Jason Hsu. I've spent a lot of time in Asia, but listening to this podcast made me realize how little I knew about the Chinese markets. Very interesting!
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Petrocelli wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 3:23 pm
Nicolas wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 11:47 pm I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry — B.J. Thomas (R.I.P.) written by Hank Williams. I’ve always liked this song.
Check out this version by the Cowboy Junkies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJt9KFyJnbk

The album it's on, The Trinity Sessions, is outstanding.
Nice, an atmospheric rendition. My first time hearing this band, I’ll check out the album. That’s what I like about streaming services, I can listen to any album, any time, most of them, anyway.

Listen to this version from Norah Jones, live from her living room (?)
https://youtu.be/vZgxciuVWZo

Elvis said this is the saddest song he’d ever heard.
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Petrocelli wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 3:23 pm
Nicolas wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 11:47 pm I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry — B.J. Thomas (R.I.P.) written by Hank Williams. I’ve always liked this song.
Check out this version by the Cowboy Junkies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJt9KFyJnbk

The album it's on, The Trinity Sessions, is outstanding.
My favorite track from this album is the very slow version of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9nN3G2CSg

I read somewhere that likens the Cowboy Junkies sound as "rock and roll on prozac".
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novicemoney wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 8:53 pm
Petrocelli wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 3:23 pm
Nicolas wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 11:47 pm I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry — B.J. Thomas (R.I.P.) written by Hank Williams. I’ve always liked this song.
Check out this version by the Cowboy Junkies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJt9KFyJnbk

The album it's on, The Trinity Sessions, is outstanding.
My favorite track from this album is the very slow version of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9nN3G2CSg

I read somewhere that likens the Cowboy Junkies sound as "rock and roll on prozac".
I like this band, their Sweet Jane is nice. Now I’m playing their first album from 1986. I’m hesitant to mention its title here.
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Nicolas wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 10:36 am
novicemoney wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 8:53 pm
Petrocelli wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 3:23 pm
Nicolas wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 11:47 pm I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry — B.J. Thomas (R.I.P.) written by Hank Williams. I’ve always liked this song.
Check out this version by the Cowboy Junkies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJt9KFyJnbk

The album it's on, The Trinity Sessions, is outstanding.
My favorite track from this album is the very slow version of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9nN3G2CSg

I read somewhere that likens the Cowboy Junkies sound as "rock and roll on prozac".
I like this band, their Sweet Jane is nice. Now I’m playing their first album from 1986. I’m hesitant to mention its title here.
Not even going to bother to check the album, but I'm certain I have the title track on my playlist just from that last sentence :wink:
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The Cowboy Junkies did a superb cover of Jerry's (actually Hunter/Garcia's) To Lay Me Down on a wonderful Dead cover album called Deadicated. It's a sweet tune to start with — one perfectly chosen to suit the Cowboy Junkies style — and they do a beautiful version.

Queued up here: https://youtu.be/nFhofP0c5cU?t=2857
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iceport wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 11:43 am The Cowboy Junkies did a superb cover of Jerry's (actually Hunter/Garcia's) To Lay Me Down on a wonderful Dead cover album called Deadicated. It's a sweet tune to start with — one perfectly chosen to suit the Cowboy Junkies style — and they do a beautiful version.

Queued up here: https://youtu.be/nFhofP0c5cU?t=2857
Nice version, alas the album must be discontinued, I can't seem to find it on iTunes. There is another cover by The Cowboy Junkies that I like. It is Gram Parson's "Ohh Las Vegas"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgQNMcIPjY

It is also off a tribute album "Return of the Grievous Angel" to Mr. Parson. It has some nice covers by Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello. Really good album if you like alt/country/americana music.
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Tonight some good old Cold Chisel - I love Khe Sanh so it's getting more of a spin....
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Leonard Cohen's album "The Future."
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Nicolas wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 11:47 pm I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry — B.J. Thomas (R.I.P.) written by Hank Williams. I’ve always liked this song.

(Untitled)/(Unissued) — The Byrds
I set up a Pandora station for BJ Thomas yesterday. Loving the results.

The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid soundtrack was the first album I ever purchased, and it led to a lifelong fondness for Thomas' voice. A blast from my childhood, along with Jimmie Rodgers, also a recent RIP candidate.
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