Glad you liked it, anny. Beth Hart is the real deal ! Indeed, I was introduced to her music by way of her collaborations with Joe Bonamassa. Those are largely soul and blues covers whereas her albums with her band are her mainly original songs with a few exceptions. She is also a huge Leonard Cohen ...

Outstanding album and DVD


Sister Heroine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT7_ZPIAoC4

Baddest Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJMk-9DTe1o

Waterfalls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leVV3PvKW6w

Jesse Clegg and Freshlyground sing Johnny Clegg's most famous song...

Asimbonanga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y74Ds2bi6o


Who has the words to close the distance


I've Been Looking (Johnny & Jesse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNlcO8oehQ

It's the little names that interest me most

Yep. They are at least as good as the headliners...at least to my untrained ears !

Hi Tony, I will have to check out these movies, I have not seen any of them. My favorite road movie is Midnight Run with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. Here is a song from the movie The Descendants with George Clooney...not a road movie. Leahi by Gabby Pahinui https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vub...

Thanks Tony --- that was very nice indeed. And I am sure you would have recognized the opening bars were very Johnny Cashesque !

Terry Allen always has a unique perspective... Peggy Leg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZqQFH-yIZ0 Gimme a Ride to Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTIKDkIBWwg Well I was caught up with myself On the highway at night Drivin like a bat outta hell When I beheld an amazing sight It was a lonely...

Nicki Wells, Ashwin Srinivasan and Nitin Sawhney

Nadia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jJJHfL1yQA

Longing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVPdJzsNrAU



Tanya Wells and Shafqat Ali Khan

Return
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfz8P7UtyaU

Very illuminating 50 minute interview with Johnny Clegg on NPR, I learned many new things about his early life that I did not know before.

https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe ... hnny-clegg

Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings Happy Holidays to Tony, Diane and everyone else - us 'The Others' and also to 'The Main Ones' - I recall a Nicole Kidman movie by that name. I came across this awesome Christmas song by Tom Russell that I had not heard before - Streetlights and Snow. As always he k...

The Crossing - Friends of Johnny Clegg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWEEpA0HkY


Clegg had composed the original for his bandmate drummer/dancer Dudu Zulu who was assassinated.

Hi Tony, 455 Rocket is a terrific song and video. Have been a long time fan of Kathy Mattea and especially of her last 3 albums. Yes quite different from Mercy Now. Here she is harmonizing with Emmylou Harris - another peerless voice in a different range. As Townes Van Zandt put it in song "the bott...

Cover version of a song by Mary Gauthier on Kathy Mattea's new album Pretty Bird... Mercy Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvNG1wBxQE0 Kathy Mattea's voice at 59 is remarkably similar to present day voice of Joan Baez who is almost 78. The Things We are Made Of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9v...

And to add to that set of 3 is 'Leaving El Paso' by Tom Russell where he references the song and Feleena... Leaving El Paso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdC4BsF_l0 Hi Tony, yes El Paso City always intrigued me - it was more spiritual than the other two. Tom Russell's cowboy ballads were clearly ...

Hi Tony, It is interesting how one song leads to another. When I clicked on the link to 'Carmen' I had a false sense of deja vu I had heard this before. In fact the song that I was thinking of was Tonight Carmen by Marty Robbins. Tonight Carmen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P65Zw2hGibI another gre...