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.
