Here's a great singer many have never heard of. The late great Johnny Moore of the Drifters, singing "Saturday Night At The Movies". What a voice he had!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvVtjaOnwog
Ranky Tanky is another Charleston group making a splash. They are a Gullah style band recently featured on the NPR show Fresh Air
http://freshairnpr.npr.libsynfusion...-books-of-2017
https://youtu.be/_wqRDzO-Lec
https://youtu.be/EiUDFfkF6vo
Here's a great singer many have never heard of. The late great Johnny Moore of the Drifters, singing "Saturday Night At The Movies". What a voice he had!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvVtjaOnwog
Susto will be back in town for the second annual High Water festival curated by Charleston’s own Shovels and Rope who will also play along with Jason Isbell, Jeff Tweedy, Band of Horses, The Wild Reeds and this band from Bama who remind me of the movie The Commitments because they have a heavy set white singer who sounds like Otis Redding.
https://youtu.be/pb8yga8kygU
https://youtu.be/z7s9A3s8iv8
If you need another excuse to come to Charleston in April the High Water festival should be a stone groove. Tickets sold out in January last year.
http://www.highwaterfest.com/
Here’s a very cool song for the 50 year anniversary today off Patty’s Children Running Through record which is my favorite. That’s the late Ian McLagan of The Faces on piano
https://youtu.be/WA6Q5-Ap3o8
Thought I would share a cool live recording of Dr. Hook playing Sylvia’s Mother on songwriter Shel Silverstein’s houseboat that has been entertaining me all week.
https://youtu.be/tXcJNljjTG0
Saw "Dr. Hook" and was expecting something more rollicking or salacious, lol. This setup reminds of me Dawes' simple acoustic version of "Love is All I Am" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e7sccDrC0A)
Well, if we're open to different styles, here's a singer to check out. The registers, voices, transitions, and textures of these vocals are astounding. Dimash Kudaibergenov, "SOS." Here's the link b/c the embedded video isn't working for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyUu2ZS4VBA
I’ve been watching this video of Fiona Apple recording a cover of Whole of the Moon all week. Very cool.
https://youtu.be/3dZ5KjFLxgA
Here's a video of my best friend playing a Willie Nelson cover on trombone in the empty streets of Austin, Texas at the beginning of COVID lockdown. The virus has been really tough on live musicians.
A newly “released” song that was composed for 2001: A Space Odyssey but rejected by Kubrick. Didn’t see the light of day until now. Interesting story behind the song. Couldn’t say I love it but it is catchy in a weird kind of way, which was the point of it.
https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv...-space-odyssey
“Coach said no 3s.” - Zion on The Block