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- Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:32 pm
- Forum: Tribute concerts, Cover versions & Soundtracks
- Topic: Dance me to the end of love
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1501
Re: Dance me to the end of love
When this cover played in the background at a restaurant a few years back, some friends commented on what a pretty song this was. I told them about Leonard's inspiration for writing it. After their reaction to me, I understood what Leonard meant when he said that "it is not important that anybo...
- Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:41 pm
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Pete Seeger R.I.P.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3244
Re: Pete Seeger R.I.P.
a lesser known one of the many great songs he wrote:
Sailing Down My Golden RIver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVnHHaB-5oc
Sailing Down My Golden RIver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVnHHaB-5oc
- Sat Nov 23, 2013 2:28 am
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: John Prine
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1193
John Prine
From John Prine's website: Earlier this month, famed singer/songwriter John Prine postponed two concerts due to illness. After further consultation with his doctors, he will have to also reschedule another two appearances. “There’s nothing I hate more than canceling shows,” says John Prine, who want...
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 1:07 am
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Lou Reed dead
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6360
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:41 am
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Aztec Jazz: Tom Russell and Norwegian Wind Ensemble
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3807
Re: Aztec Jazz: Tom Russell and Norwegian Wind Ensemble
Tom Russell's comments on "East of Woodstock, West of Viet Nam" from his blog, "Notes From the Borderland" "In 1969 I stepped off a plane in Ibadan, Nigeria and a someone stuck a rifle up against my throat. Evidently I'd been taking illegal pictures over a war zone in Biafra...
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:31 pm
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Sophia Loren
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5829
Re: Sophia Loren
and from the "they don't make them like that anymore" file:- Fri Sep 20, 2013 5:08 am
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: David Gray covered Bob Dylan's "No More Auction Block"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2264
Re: David Gray covered Bob Dylan's "No More Auction Block"
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/twh/higg.html An article from 1867 discussing some of the origins of Negro Spirituals, including one that with some variations becomes No More Auction Block: MANY THOUSAND GO No more peck o' corn for me, No more, no more, -- No more peck o' corn for me, Many tousand...
- Fri Sep 20, 2013 4:26 am
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Sophia Loren
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5829
Re: Sophia Loren
Perhaps Leonard could be talked into playing the role of a Jewish doctor ... just for the re-recording, of course...
- Fri Sep 20, 2013 3:37 am
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Sophia Loren
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5829
Re: Sophia Loren
Here are a couple featuring Sophia in Boy On A Dolphin (1957) filmed at a location Leonard would come to know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9adB0GlcQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt6zmzCfdDg sl2.jpg sl1.jpg Her golden voice was also on featured in that film ... although perhaps missed due to o...
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:22 pm
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 10: Another Self-Portrait
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4411
Re: Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 10: Another Self-Portrait
I think they are hoping we are ... and in my case, they are probably right ...John Etherington wrote:One of Eric Andesen's greatest songs - the b-side to "Wigwam"???!!! Are they out of their minds?
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:19 pm
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 10: Another Self-Portrait
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4411
Re: Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 10: Another Self-Portrait
If someone had told me 43 years ago that excitement would be be generated by Dylan releasing an album of outtakes based on the nearly universally-hated Self Portrait ... Dylan's "official" store is listing the 2 CD set at $19.98, deluxe 4 CD set at $99.98 ... the $80 (£53) difference buys ...
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:06 pm
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 10: Another Self-Portrait
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4411
Re: Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 10: Another Self-Portrait
First thought that came to mind echoed the Griel Marcus "what is this sh*t" review of the original Self Portrait album that is mentioned in the video ... but what the promo presents sounds great. Below is the track list. A standard version will have 35 tracks on 2 CD's and a "deluxe v...
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:28 pm
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4595
Re: Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger
Rodney Crowell has done a great cover version as well Rodney wrote Shame On The Moon ... here is another song with a moon reference that Seger covered in the 80's ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMbBYL6bvOI' while Seger was waiting to release it then, Rod Stewart had a hit with this Tom Waits so...
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:31 am
- Forum: Live performances & YouTube clips
- Topic: Filming at concerts
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10148
Re: Filming at concerts
... just need a customized trilby fedora ...
- Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: New York Review of Books article. Feb. 21, 2013
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2857
Re: New York Review of Books article. Feb. 21, 2013
Hal E. Lujah wrote:Who told Rufus to alter the lyrics?
a little bird???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe9RwAFVn9U
Probably not.