I posted a couple of tunes from this band last week. I just got the CD today and I have to say that this is one of the most fascinating groups I have heard in many years.
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OK- this is a song but also a video that I have been watching every Christmas for at least a decade....A dog named Bailey playing in the snow while (I believe Harry Connick's version of) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer plays.....This was Video-recorded back in the late 90s, so Bailey has been gone for years, but he lives on in this wonderful video...
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Sweet. I don't have a big collection or listen to this type of music a lot, but I really like Ali Farka Toure as "background music" when I am doing some mindless labor. Even though I don't know what he is singing about I find it hypnotic and soothing.
Why don't my links post as videos?
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Sweet. I don't have a big collection or listen to this type of music a lot, but I really like Ali Farka Toure as "background music" when I am doing some mindless labor. Even though I don't know what he is singing about I find it hypnotic and soothing.
Ali Farka Toure was somewhat of a precursor to a style which developed in sub-Saharan Africa primarily in the 21st century. It is variously called Touareg Rock, Desert Blues or (though not quite the same) Amaziah music. I have posted a few other examples here over the last ten or so years.
The Bela Fleck album above was released on the 100th anniversary of a tune that has been one of my favorites since I was a small child. When I was in grade school, Gershwin was still considered a contemporary composer.
Twelve years later, Louis Prima wrote another of my all time favorites, performed here as a collaboration between a Russian Jazz band and a Russian Folk band.
And here is an interesting collaboration between folk groups from Russia and Sweden.
Just came across this one (again), as included in the movie Swing Vote (watched it again last night -very timely movie in an election year). This song just feels like it belongs here on the Forum.
Hammond B3, strained through a Leslie, Haily sings gospel.
Truth is I don't see you in my dreams Want your cake and eat it too Can't expect me to follow you
Oh all around All I see are signs of love Could try to turn away but I knew Knew this song would remind me of you
Was there something I could do Did I ask too much from you You know I can take the truth So lay it down
The bed you made Has no room for me Underneath your frozen sheets I would sleep so terribly
I don't need Never needed much you see I'll go back to the way I was And you'll just be a memory
Was there something I could do Did I ask too much from you You know I can take the truth So lay it down Lay it down Oh lay it down Lay it down Oh lay it down on me yeah
I don't need Never needed much you see I'll go back to the way I was And you'll just be a memory
Was there something I could do Did I ask too much from you You know I can take the truth So lay it down
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Originally posted by Valkrie9: Hammond B3, strained through a Leslie, Haily sings gospel.
You had me at B3! What a magnificent sound! Just those two alphanumeric characters together give me goosebumps. If I go to a show and see a B3 sitting on stage, I get all giddy like a little girl with a puppy. Did you know that Mr Hammond hated Mr Leslie and wouldn't allow them anywhere near his organs? Still arguably the greatest combination to come out of the '60s...
The scale that he plays is called the Phrygian mode. It is as old as civilization itself and is my favorite mode. If you go to the piano and play all of the white notes starting with E, you will be in the same mode and key that the harpist is using.
