Cool song

[lotusland]

Thought I'd start this thread to share diamonds in the rough. Between Duke basketball games I spend my my occasional free time surfing YouTube for hidden gems. Here's Tara Holloway covering a Charlie Robison tune. It's a little dark as Charlie is wont to be but I'm always a sucker for a lilting soulful voice that cracks in just the right way. Enjoy.


https://youtu.be/pypg-4ffQVk

[lotusland]

Well if no one else will play I'll play by myself!

Been listening to a lot of Charlie Robinson lately. There's definitey something in the TX water that grows song writers like no place else. Charlie does sad and makes it cool. Can't get enough of this one lately.

https://youtu.be/ZFJ-l6bHTH8

[lotusland]

And for a change of pace, here's one from a few years back I really like. Mozella with a current take on the Motown sound.

https://youtu.be/e-GTKTmSWO8

[killerleft]

I'll play.

I offer The Meadow. The songwriter/singer is Martha Scanlan. The guitarist is Jon Neufeld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9VB0jIOm0

[rsvman]

I'll play.

I offer The Meadow. The songwriter/singer is Martha Scanlan. The guitarist is Jon Neufeld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9VB0jIOm0

That's nice. Thanks.

[lotusland]

I'll play.

I offer The Meadow. The songwriter/singer is Martha Scanlan. The guitarist is Jon Neufeld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9VB0jIOm0

Awesome- thanks for that! Kind of a Celtic folk vibe. Love the arch top guitar work and mellifluous singing. Adding to my YouTube playlist.

[Doria]

Thanks for the original suggestion. I really liked the song and also the singer. Now, I shall have to dig in pursuit of more stuff like that. Thanks again! I can't spork today, but I'll try to do so tomorrow (feel like Wimpy from Popeye now...).

[Jim3k]

I'll play.

I offer The Meadow. The songwriter/singer is Martha Scanlan. The guitarist is Jon Neufeld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9VB0jIOm0

Scanlan sings like an early Joan Baez. Acoustic guitar, soprano voice with exquisite tonal clarity. The song does not suggest her range or power, but it is sweet indeed.

Example, East Virginia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdS0...RwzIlKSpU2zGoX

[killerleft]

Scanlan sings like an early Joan Baez. Acoustic guitar, soprano voice with exquisite tonal clarity. The song does not suggest her range or power, but it is sweet indeed.

Example, East Virginia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdS0...RwzIlKSpU2zGoX

Joan's voice was exquisite. She probably wouldn't mind singing this one by Scanlan. It's a lament, but also of a protest song:

"Up on the Divide"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZHC9vYA0Pg

Martha is singing this one in Montana, in her cabin in Tongue River country.

[lotusland]

Ariana Gillis on ETown

https://youtu.be/aW7kYCFFeHY

Here's another if you like the first

https://youtu.be/iWsnxrruB_g

[lotusland]

I listen to Patty Griffin all the time but this week I'm stuck on this song. The harmonies with Julie Miller are outstanding.
https://youtu.be/HhHCA7RzkBI

[killerleft]

I listen to Patty Griffin all the time but this week I'm stuck on this song. The harmonies with Julie Miller are outstanding.
https://youtu.be/HhHCA7RzkBI

Thanks! Beautiful song. Which is not surprising, with Patty and Julie singing.

[rsvman]

This is different from most of the songs in this thread, but I really like it. A kind of jazzy interpretation of the Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL-orkYMIHg

[rsvman]

Don't blame me if you fall in love with this singer. And don't say I didn't warn you.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2wnRAZeO4

[killerleft]

This is different from most of the songs in this thread, but I really like it. A kind of jazzy interpretation of the Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL-orkYMIHg

Liked the singer, but the rest of it played tricks on my 64 year-old ears.

[killerleft]

Don't blame me if you fall in love with this singer. And don't say I didn't warn you.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2wnRAZeO4

That was a great cover of a beautiful song!

[killerleft]

My Bubba is a duo consisting of two Scandinavian women. Infectious, enigmatic, and provocative, they play four songs after about 5 minutes of an interview. At the 8:30 mark they sing a song about knitting, if you're short on time. It lasts about a minute. You're Gonna Make Me Miss You When You Go (Dylan) is very pretty, at 12:45. From an appearance at a festival in Ohio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srBk...U#t=404.157967

[wavedukefan70s]

Boyce avenue does a lot of covers with variuos up and comming artists.you may like them.
https://youtu.be/wvCq6-zWw7M

[rsvman]

OK, so this is shameless self-promotion, and if you don't like choral music or children's choirs, don't click these links.

I'm a hobbyist composer, and the Virginia Children's Chorus has performed five of my songs over the years. One of them is on YouTube intact; another one is partially there. The first link is to a full performance of one of my songs, a setting of a Thomas Hardy poem called "Summer Schemes." The poem is about the unpredictability of life. If you click on the "more" button the text is there to read. I dedicated it to a friend of mine that was supposed to play in a golf tournament with me in June one year but died very suddenly after rupturing an aneurysm in his head in late February. (Sorry for the long backstory.) Also, the kids had not really polished the song, as this was a practice performance, and it was filmed on a crappy iPhone. But you'll get the idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnIVWrnpnZ8


I don't know who recorded this next one, or why they waited until about a minute into the song before they pressed "record." Maybe they thought the song would stink but then after hearing the first part decided to record it? Maybe they thought they were recording and then discovered they weren't? I don't know. But the sound and recording quality of what they managed to record is better than the first link. This is also a setting I wrote for a Hardy poem, this one a much more lighthearted poem called "Any Little Old Song."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZeODLXwZc

I wish I had had the foresight to record the others and post them on YouTube, but I didn't.



Anyway, like I said, all this is nothing more than shameless self-promotion, so feel free to ignore the whole thing.

[rsvman]

Boyce avenue does a lot of covers with variuos up and comming artists.you may like them.
https://youtu.be/wvCq6-zWw7M

This guy is really talented. Lots of good stuff in other videos, too. Thanks.