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margaret · Post by **margaret** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:21 pm

As well as Heather, I've been playing K D Lang's Hymns of the 49th Parallel, Tom Waits' Real Gone, and various Jan Garbarek cd's in anticipation of seeing him again on Saturday. Some of his stuff is very soothing. (he plays saxophone brilliantly in lots of different styles)

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:42 pm

I've been listening to Scott Walker this morning. Scott One.

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:24 pm

Scott 2 is my favorite. Sinatra meets Sartre.

p.s. I havent heard Scott Walker in a while. Now that you have reminded me of him, I think I'll play him sometime this weekend

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 3:09 pm

I love all Scott's solo work. He is working on a new album at the moment, so that is something to look forward to.

Philip Glass - Solo Piano, this morning. I had a little too much wine last night.

Andrew McGeever · Post by **Andrew McGeever** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 3:43 am

Today I dusted down my vinyl recording of Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited".
Utterly wonderful music, after nearly 40 years!!!
Apart from the obvious gems e.g. "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Tombstone Blues", there is so much more to treasure.
"Desolation Row" is a masterpiece.
"Queen Jane Approximately"....outstanding.
"Highway 61"...brilliant.
To be honest, this is one of the greatest albums of all time......who else could get away with "Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliot fighting in the captain's tower"?
The sleeve notes, written by Bob Dylan, speak of "beautiful strangers" and "the holy slow train" and someone called "John Cohen". He finishes with the advice; "you don't have to think about such things as eyes & rooftops & quazimodo".
The quazi-poets at my high school would read and analyse the sleeve notes as much as the music itself. In this respect, I'm as guilty as the rest.
Andrew.

tom.d.stiller · Post by **tom.d.stiller** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 7:25 am

Oh Andrew,
i received your posting yesterday
about the time the door knob broke

and it made me wonder if Old Herriot Of the Uncomfortable Chairs still exists, and what happened to Old Wand

but right now i can't read too much ('t might be the alcohol)
so please mail your letters from ...

right now, btw, I'm listening to Mac ("Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble...")

but "Streets of Arklow" will be next, and further up on the playlist was Clapton's Unplugged Layla rendition, while the future holds some dear heather and - Xmas to come soon - a card from a hooker...

worried 'bout my state of mind

Tom

Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:20 am

"Streets of Arklow" my favourite song on my favourite Van album. A classic one.

Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:38 am

On my way to work I usually listen to one of the playlists on my Nomad "Jukebox". The car engine makes too much noise to listen to Leonard and other quiet music, so mostly it is hard rock, blues (the sort that they used to call R&B), Stones and general pop stuff.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:23 pm

By now I supposed that I should move here from "cover" topic about Madeleine Peyroux's Careless Love.

At first I was only drawn into her brilliant cover of Dance me to the End of Love. Then I felt for Between the Bars, and discovered with surprise that I enjoy a song from Bob Dylan (so please Mr. Dylan may you accept my apologize, still, you are not a kind of Pope to me, but I recognized you as a great poetical song writer). I may sound like an alien from Andromedra Galaxy or worst to most of you, but Ey! I discovered this throug LC, through MP.

She covered YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME LONESOME WHEN YOU GO

No fashionable and then so rapidply out of fashion protest song. Just some flashes of pure joy and pretty images with a zest of pain because of this deep consciouness that hapiness of that sort does not ususally go for ever that pimented this love life story like a real one. The pretty images I like the best?

"Dragon clouds so high above
I've only known careless love,
It's always hit me from below.
This time around it's more correct
Right on target, so direct,
Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
Purple clover, Queen Anne lace,
Crimson hair across your face,"

"Flowers on the hillside, bloomin' crazy,
Crickets talkin' back and forth in rhyme,
Blue river runnin' slow and lazy,
I could stay with you forever
And never realize the time.
Situations have ended sad,
Relationships have all been bad.
Mine've been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud.
But there's no way I can compare
All those scenes to this affair,
Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go."

She took 8 years to do another CD and I think she choose every song to be a real tribute to the person who wrote it in regard of what she was feeling about them.

As I was listening Between the Bars, it occurs to me that the tenderness has another meaning, like to sooth all the sadness and addiction to alcohol and the tragic ending of the poet. No such sadness with the cover of Dylan and Cohen - in the contrary, i feel they bring joy in her life. I feel that she really thinks LC is the sexiest of the bunch. (He is in fact

).

And the sadness/tenderness combo comes back with Hank Willams cover of Weary Blues. Hank Williams that I did not know either but for his name mentioned in one of my favourtie LC'song "Tower of Song". So this is who he was.

Very interesting voyage, this CD.

What is playing right now is Dear Heather, Ten New Songs, Careless Love. And that's it.

for now.

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:30 pm

I do not know how I managed to post the above as Guest. It is from me however.

Pretty images from the song I like also :

"I'll look for you in old Honolulu,
San Francisco, Ashtabula,
Yer gonna have to leave me now, I know.
But I'll see you in the sky above,
In the tall grass, in the ones I love,
Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go."

Dragon clouds :

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:42 am

Nice graphics! I really like Madeleine Peyroux as well. She does a fine job with the Cohen stuff but I wonder what the CD is like as a whole? It doesn't really matter, I'll take the chance and fork over whatever it is they're asking. I did the same with Norah Jones and was greatly rewarded.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:49 am

Stranger: I like your signature - I like Graeme Greene. I, also would like to know why I'm a guest, I'm Linda_lakeside. Oh, oh - maybe it's because I forgot to log in? Are things beginning to look different around this site or is it just me?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:55 am

Andrew: I couldn't agree more re: Highway 61 Revisited. It is without doubt one of the best, for want of a better word, R&R album of all time. . . Along with 'Let It Bleed", of course. Cheers!

linda_lakeside

Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:59 am

Hi Linda, I put that particular Greene quote in my signature because somehow it reminds me of Leonard (in a way, most of his books do).

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:11 am

Stranger I like your signature too and Linda thanks for the laugh. Have a try with Peyroux.

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