How is this possible? Mercereau writes: “Renovations to the bridge have caused it to vibrate and ‘sing’ in high winds, reverberating loud tones throughout the bay, effectively making it the largest wind instrument in the world.”
@meander: I remember that story! And was fascinated, and listened to the sounds of the bridge. I think it’s quite beautiful – but I’m not living where I have to hear it all day every day.
AL – that’s a lovely and wide-ranging selection, and I enjoyed listening to all of them. Special thanks for the Nancy Griffith. And the Celtic chorale – Celtic music just always gets deep into my heart.
OT: So, TIL, Neal Adams, the comic book artist, is a kook who believes in the expanding Earth hypothesis and doesn’t believe in the Big Bang. Never meet your heroes, kids
@Steeplejack (phone): She also does some classic country covers —from Jackson, MS you know. Off the top of my head, some Hank Williams, “Last Train to Clarksville,” some other stuff.
They’ve been around for over a decade, but I’m just recently hearing of them, I think.
24.
HumboldtBlue
That from a distance song makes me want to fight people.
What a dirge.
25.
Steeplejack (phone)
Srsly ??. Thanks for the tunage.
26.
opiejeanne
@HumboldtBlue: Me too. I used to like the song until every talent* competition, and/or audition for same, included at least three kids singing that; they always the grunt that Bette makes once during one of the choruses, “Ungh, God is watching you”, but inserting the grunt every time that line appears.
*I had to attend a lot of those, and I’m glad because of the few genuinely great performances that I got to see. The one that I always think of first was the kid from Hawaii who yodeled and talked. He was hilarious and very good at yodeling.
They’re not always this militant, but the early 70s were tough in Brazil. Soon after this album Mauro dropped from sight, and even his songwriting partner Bahiana, now living and working here as a writer, thought he’d died or been disappeared by the government. Turns out, he’s alive.
Lyrics from DeepL:
Holy, holy, is the warlord
The battling lamb
Holy, holy is Michael the Archangel
And the justice of my lord
Holy, holy, is the warlord
The Fighting Lamb
Holy, holy is Michael the Archangel
And the righteousness of my lord
It is time
I’ve come to get my share
Of the new Jerusalem
In the fire of my voice
I have come
Holy, holy, is the warlord
The battling lamb
Holy, holy is Michael the Archangel
And the justice of my lord
It is time
I came with a star on my forehead
Marked warrior I am
Elected in my nation
I have come
Holy, holy, is the warlord
The fighting lamb
Holy, holy is Michael the Archangel
And the righteousness of my lord
Thanks. After today and this evening’s news dump, I really appreciate this.
i’ve been writing about the bad stuff for years and far too much of what I foresaw has been realized. So it’s like everything bad happens twice: first I foresee it and then I live through it. I really need music and, sometimes, dance to raise my spirits again.
To paraphrase one of the comments, there’s nothing like some good jazz.
36.
Amir Khalid
For some truly relaxing content, I recommend Gavin Webber’s YouTube channel, which is dedicated to cheesemaking: all kinds of cheese and cheese-adjacent foodstuffs, famous and obscure. He turns 10 litres of whole milk in into 1kg or so of cheese, with a voice-over delivered in a calm, soothing Australian accent. As I said, truly relaxing.
I love covers. A local NPR station had an all-cover program (two hours) a couple of months ago. I got nothing done because I didn’t want to miss any of it.
39.
Warblewarble
Mo Ghille Mear, stand with President Biden. My Gallant Hero.
Jerzy Russian
I hadn’t heard that particular Beach Boys tune performed that way before. Very nice.
Steeplejack
Thanks, A.L.!
@Jerzy Russian:
Here’s the other bookend: Kathy Troccoli and the Beach Boys, “I Can Hear Music.”
Howard Beale IV
Here’s a true “Leopard eating faces” tweet…. https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1431012542202134529
Steeplejack
More country divas . . .
Faith Hill, “Take Me as I Am.”
Martina McBride, “Independence Day.”
meander
Something a little off-beat that I really like, the mesmerizing, haunting, historic recordings of Nate Mercereau’s duets with the Golden Gate Bridge(!). It’s unlike anything I’ve heard.
How is this possible? Mercereau writes: “Renovations to the bridge have caused it to vibrate and ‘sing’ in high winds, reverberating loud tones throughout the bay, effectively making it the largest wind instrument in the world.”
There’s an article in the San Francisco Chronicle with more details.
Steeplejack
Suzy Bogguss, “Someday Soon”
Kacey Musgraves, “Justified.”
CaseyL
@meander: I remember that story! And was fascinated, and listened to the sounds of the bridge. I think it’s quite beautiful – but I’m not living where I have to hear it all day every day.
AL – that’s a lovely and wide-ranging selection, and I enjoyed listening to all of them. Special thanks for the Nancy Griffith. And the Celtic chorale – Celtic music just always gets deep into my heart.
Yarrow
@Steeplejack: Mary Chapin Carpenter – He Thinks He’ll Keep Her.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
OT: So, TIL, Neal Adams, the comic book artist, is a kook who believes in the expanding Earth hypothesis and doesn’t believe in the Big Bang. Never meet your heroes, kids
Steeplejack
Kathy Mattea, Alison Krauss and Suzy Bogguss, “Teach Your Children.”
Shania Twain And Alison Krauss, “Coat of Many Colors.”
Steeplejack
@Yarrow:
Good one—it fits!
Paula Cole, “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone.”
Steeplejack
Shawn Colvin, “Sunny Came Home.”
Joni Mitchell, “Song for Sharon.”
piratedan
well…. if we’re going female country… I’ll offer up this classic cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nke_kEh68SE
some real old school …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D25uVgUooks
and the former Ms. Nick Lowe if you’re looking for something a bit more kicky…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqORyaNpiNk
Steeplejack
Nicky Holland, “Lady Killer.”
???
Steeplejack
@piratedan:
Can’t go wrong with steel guitar.
piratedan
@Steeplejack: why yes, I do come from a long tragic line of dobro players…..
prostratedragon
@Steeplejack: Very much like a pairing I”ve been enjoying lately:
First person …
… and third person:
HumboldtBlue
And I just lost it.
Charles Mingus got it, though.
Doug R
The time the Barenaked Ladies got Brian Wilson to sing along with them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWy1dkTuCM
Steeplejack (phone)
@prostratedragon:
Cassandra Wilson! I was trying to think of her. She has a song that’s practically only her voice and steel guitar: “Skylark.”
Origuy
Linda Ronstadt when her voice was at its most powerful Blue Bayou 1977
Steeplejack (phone)
Bonnie Raitt, “Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy.”
prostratedragon
@Steeplejack (phone): She also does some classic country covers —from Jackson, MS you know. Off the top of my head, some Hank Williams, “Last Train to Clarksville,” some other stuff.
From the Soweto String Quartet,
They’ve been around for over a decade, but I’m just recently hearing of them, I think.
HumboldtBlue
That from a distance song makes me want to fight people.
What a dirge.
Steeplejack (phone)
Srsly ??. Thanks for the tunage.
opiejeanne
@HumboldtBlue: Me too. I used to like the song until every talent* competition, and/or audition for same, included at least three kids singing that; they always the grunt that Bette makes once during one of the choruses, “Ungh, God is watching you”, but inserting the grunt every time that line appears.
*I had to attend a lot of those, and I’m glad because of the few genuinely great performances that I got to see. The one that I always think of first was the kid from Hawaii who yodeled and talked. He was hilarious and very good at yodeling.
HumboldtBlue
@opiejeanne:
Yodeling Hawaii kids sounds like fun.
prostratedragon
@HumboldtBlue: Oh, it sounds positively full of hope and light compared to this one, which is enough to make a person recalibrate:
They’re not always this militant, but the early 70s were tough in Brazil. Soon after this album Mauro dropped from sight, and even his songwriting partner Bahiana, now living and working here as a writer, thought he’d died or been disappeared by the government. Turns out, he’s alive.
Lyrics from DeepL:
HumboldtBlue
@prostratedragon:
How useful is a fighting lamb in a world of wolves?
prostratedragon
@HumboldtBlue: The ways of the yin warrior are profound …
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
Coming next year: follow the possessed lamb. Or else.
;)
mr perfect
@Steeplejack: Shawn Colvin is criminally underrated.
I met Xanna Dont at a Southern Culture on the Skids show at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle on Labour Day in 2019:
Xanna Don’t & The Wanted – Train To Satanville, CHETSTOCK – YouTube
Raven Onthill
Thanks. After today and this evening’s news dump, I really appreciate this.
i’ve been writing about the bad stuff for years and far too much of what I foresaw has been realized. So it’s like everything bad happens twice: first I foresee it and then I live through it. I really need music and, sometimes, dance to raise my spirits again.
NotMax
@Raven Onthill
Howzabout some serious moonlight?
;)
prostratedragon
Marta Agerich at a mere 72 or so years old:
To paraphrase one of the comments, there’s nothing like some good jazz.
Amir Khalid
For some truly relaxing content, I recommend Gavin Webber’s YouTube channel, which is dedicated to cheesemaking: all kinds of cheese and cheese-adjacent foodstuffs, famous and obscure. He turns 10 litres of whole milk in into 1kg or so of cheese, with a voice-over delivered in a calm, soothing Australian accent. As I said, truly relaxing.
prostratedragon
Because there must be a tango:
debbie
@Jerzy Russian:
I love covers. A local NPR station had an all-cover program (two hours) a couple of months ago. I got nothing done because I didn’t want to miss any of it.
Warblewarble
Mo Ghille Mear, stand with President Biden. My Gallant Hero.
cleek
me again: https://youtu.be/zy4Y067j0jA
Steeplejack
@cleek:
Seen and heard. Has a bit of a Neil Young Dead Man soundtrack feel.
cleek
@Steeplejack:
thanks for lookin!
yeah. i was definitely trying for a ‘soundtrack to despair’ feel.
BigJimSlade
@HumboldtBlue: Hey, Mingus(!Mingus!Mingus!) – thanks for posting that!