That's a nice little tune right there.

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-Hank Kingsley

Isn't it amazing how many great songs are out there that you'd never hear on the radio?

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Gram Parsons is one of my favorite figures in the history of pop music. He all but invented the genre of alt-country 25 years before it formally existed, and his work has influenced everyone from the Rolling Stones to Wilco.

It's hard to believe, then, that someone could perform what is arguably his best tune, "A Song for You," better than he did. Yet that's exactly what Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown have done, along with some help from Parsons' former collaborator Emmylou Harris.

This is one of my two favorite covers of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU-l7szkBXc.

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Ryan Adams comes up on my Pandora an awful lot, yet I own no albums by him. I find him to be very talented and pretty easy on the ear. Some of his songs fall flat but
you are right about this type of tune being right in his sweet spot.

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Even more than "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", this one sounds like it was actually written by a Civil War veteran. Here's a great cover version by Shawn Colvin:

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

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Was reading a bit more on Danko this morning before digging into real work. Didn't know this little nugget....

Danko sang on the Pink Floyd songs "Comfortably Numb" and "Mother", the former with Van Morrison, Roger Waters, and Levon Helm

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Toni Tenelle with a lot of backing vocals on The Wall as well.

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The late, great Jeff Porcaro played drums on "Mother."

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So when Robbie Robertson first joined up with Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks they would tour Canada in the summer and the South in the Winter. Roberston and Helm were teenagers and Helm would regale Roberstson with tales of the Missippi Delta and his upbringing in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. Culturally, Robertson was a jewish kid from Toronto and loved the whole southern thing. Helm says that The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down came from a conversation they had, and that he actually brought Robertson to a library to research it. Robertson says he wrote the lyrics himself. They're probably both right. Interestingly, the only songwriting credit Helm ever got was for a beautiful little flower called Jemima Surrender (apropos of the whole Black Pussy controversy).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no0wyfeWyAE

Jemima surrender, I'm gonna give it to you,
Ain't no pretender, gonna ride in my canoe
If I were a barker in a girly show,
Tell ya what I'd do,
I'd lock the door, tear my shirt and let my river flow
Oh, oh, sweet Jemima, wont'cha come out tonight?
The ground is so warm and the moon is so bright!

Jemima surrender, that's all you have to do
I'll bring over my Fender
And I'll play all night for you
There's a bird on my head
And his mouth won't talk (He won't talk-- he's in shock),
You know he laughs just like a goose,
But looks like a hawk
Jemima, you know what I'm tryin' to say,
Meet me in the front and we'll fly away

You can change your name
You can find a new walk
You can change your lock, it's all the same
You don't have to give out
If you'll only give in
You can jump and shout
But can't you see girl, that I'm bound to win

Jemima surrender, I'm gonna give it to you,
Ain't no pretender, wanna see my tattoo?
I hand you my rod and you hand me that line,
That's what you do
And now we ain't doin' much fishin'
Or drinkin' any wine
Sweet Jemima, if I were a king
I'd fix you up with a diamond ring

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"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

I'm sure I mentioned this here before but it may have been before you were a CSFMB member. When I got married the first time it was in Vegas. My friend Howard, who is dead now, took a train out to San Bernardino and then a bus back to Vegas for the wedding. Howard loved traveling on trains. He said it was civilized. He would get a sleeper and he loved train food. He also talked about "train whores"- women who rode trains looking to pick up rich dudes.

On the way out to Vegas, Howard was working a train whore really hard. But then this old gnarly dude jumped into their conversation. As they were passing a ranch on the plains somewhere he pointed out the window and told the broad, "I own all of that land". That was the end of Howard. The rest of the story is, the old guy was Levon Helm.

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WWLD baby.

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Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMNfTrLG380

Grunge Beautiful.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3QDo-66yb8
This song has haunted me for over 20 years..........

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Second greatest Dylan cover ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Ot50vbfQQ

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Carry Me, Ohio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRA7weVyLs

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Just stumbled over this today, not sure how I missed it when Dave was wrapping things up. First Aid Kit, a favorite of mine singing the
Simon & Garfunkel song "America". These sisters make some really beautiful music together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5BvylUVp0

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Heard this song in a Sopranos episode (after 15 years, finally got around to watching the show...didn't realize what I was missing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf052uxFF58

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Owen Ashworth made the cover of this week's Reader. My guy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvO6TB5rmC8

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awesome tune, thanks. lotta great choonage in this thread in the posts i've clicked.

jeff buckley's 'hallelujah' make the cut yet? somehow I managed to get it played at my father's funeral. back to back with Drive By Truckers 'Shut Up and Get On the Plane'.

My contribution, a tune inspired by, among many, many other inspirations, the pride of Maywood, Illinois:

https://youtu.be/gKmrQ-Jjuv8

Great song, but kind of ruined for me when I heard the Shrek version.

Speaking of father's funerals, the song below was rated as the "saddest song ever" by some British poll years ago...there was a question (maybe settled by now) over whether the lyrics are referring to the songwriter's father, who was going through chemo for cancer. That angle does make the song much more melancholy in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ0n3itoII

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The Eels have that whole cancer album, Electro-Shock Blues. "Going to Your Funeral Part II" is much more hopeful than "Going to Your Funeral Part I".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzAb1BqXBc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdGz4ei53KE

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i always liked "it's a motherfucker" as a sad eels song. although, eels first few albums were really hit and miss. "your lucky day in hell" is still one of my favorite songs. amazingly they're really good live. i also liked e's early solo albums like "broken toy shop".

Jets To Brazil - Conrad

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Ap7bP5vVk

a hound's tooth coat pockets are bulging
with nebutal bought from some doctor
who also was bought to keep those pockets full
the face was lost but partly recovered
so half asleep and half in a frenzy
one side tries to smile enough for two
pictures remain split at the image
cupboards well-stocked with things to diminish
the pain that comes with clarity and mirrors in well-lit rooms
she checks in at dwindling daylight
a week up front asks not to be bothered
the registry will show her mother's name
locks the door sits on the bed just a minute before
she picks her purse up off the floor
pulling out what she needs
warming her wrists in promising water
somebody's love another one's daughter
readies herself apologizing to the motel maids
double-edged and super blue
vertically letting the life from you
casting a new darkness through the room
angels lay their odds on you
know not quite what they should do
only that they can't quite tear themselves from the view

Local Natives -- Columbia

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

The song is written to one of the band members mothers who passed away.

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Spiritualized have more than a few absolute weepers, I'd put Broken Heart, Life Is A Problem, and So Long You Pretty Thing on the list...........devastating stuff.

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I recently watched the Springsteen doc, The Ties That Bind. I wasn't a big fan of The River when it came out. The songs I like best from that album are the ones Springsteen seems to consider "filler" like "Out in the Streets" and "Sherry Darling". But I've always thought "Drive All Night" was a really underrated song that didn't get played enough. I was listening to E Street Radio the other day and I heard this version that I had never heard before. I almost wept in the car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkQpxOs6K6w

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stark reality (meets the hoagy carmichael workshop) - dreams

as the story goes (as far as my memory remembers) hoagy carmichael was an oldschool (like 30s-50s) leading man actor who did some music on the side, and as he got older he did children's music. when he kicked it his kid got the rights to all of his music, so he commissioned one of his favorite jazz/y bands, the stark reality, to go through and do "remixes" of a bunch of the children's songs that his father had made over the years.... the result is the "stark reality meets the hoagy carmichael workshop" 16" (and yeah it was one of those XXL 16" records you see very occasionally) and this song is the bestest of the bunch.

i'm far from a guitar-driven-music guy, nor has plenty of forcings of grateful dead and phish on me really endeared me into the whole "jam band" phenomenon, but i think this song would basically qualify as a jam band thing as it's a longform song (~8min) and you get all the guys rocking out their various instruments via solos/parts-with-different-phocus. the drummer here is fucking awesome, i must say. i like to think that medeski martin and wood dug this shit back in the day.

but yeah if you stick with it and get to the goofy children's music lyrics at the end it's just =D =D =D

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now on the other end of the spectrum from that stark reality song i just posted, here's squarepusher with "tetra sync"

now this song is made by one guy, an electronic musician who for the longest time has manned that #2 ranking below aphex twin in my (correct) rankings of the greatest electronic musicians to walk the earth. whereas a good aphex twin track sounds like it's got an army of little pissed off dwarfs doing next-level percussion (i've traditionally referred to afx as "the norse god of percussion" cuz holy shit that guy is just on point with his beats. literally+figuratively from another planet) and aphex kind of has this "badass futuristic children's music" vibe going on.... squarepusher, on the other hand, is more like he establishes a track/groove/etc and then the hand of god comes in (via DSP, or digital signal processing) and grabs the track and just contorts it and twists it and modifies it much like, well, the hand of god came down and had its way with the track.

this song tetra sync is from the LP "ultravisitor" in 2004 where he had this gimmick where he'd have the track starting off like it was out of a live set. the real instruments you hear are him playing drums and fretless bass and stuff, but then he either used a 4-track or a computer to put them all together. this might have been around the time he finally started using a computer, cuz he'd legendarily use that 4-track to made seminal EPs/LPs like hard normal daddy, big loada, feed me weird things, squarepusher plays, port rhombus, etc. he resisted going all out to the computer for a long time, and seeing after ultravisitor he went and did his one man band thing with "just a souvenir" LP and then a hybrid of that/electronics with the "numbers lucent" EP (before going back to full-on rockband mode with shobaleader one) so i guess this might have been just about the farthest he could push his traditional sound b4 changing it up for good.

but yeah, weighing in at 9-10mins this song starts off like a livejam and then turns into that electronic/one-man-band hybrid and it just builds builds builds into that "hand of god having its way with the track" thing circa ~5-6min.... but the initial buildup is just perpetual and glorious and cohesive.... it's utterly captivating to someone like me who had nintendo 8 bit synthesis providing the foundation of his musical habits. what starts off as a simple little one man band thing from the liveshow/ish intro is absolutely electronic and variant and hand of god by ~5mins in. you'll see what i mean if you can stick with it. it's worth the investment, and if you last long enough you'll get to hear the obligatory basswank solo run through electronic filters/guitar pedals/etc. that starts circa 6:20 IIRC.... and yeah the guy can absolutely shred that fretless bass before you hear the filters come in to take that bass sound to someplace else.

but yeah, TLDR = still a credit to the guy that he's considered one of the world's foremost electronic musicians in his prime and yet he can go off and, example, play real instruments like you hear in this song to either stand alone as music or get worked into an electronic music hybrid that almost works out like a secret level in a video game once you take the vine to the warp zone. jolly good show, eh?

BONUS = the first ~2mins42secs of this song of his, "the modern bass guitar", does the same kind of fusion thingy on tetra sync, albeit way more slanted to the electronic side.... and those first 2:42 are perfect to the point where after you hit that mark the rest of the song is pointless. that said i dont think anyone here would actually like it, so i suppose i can just say that in terms of the "beautiful hybrid" stuff you can give this other track called "hello meow" (a song for the womyn?) a go. that one is way less out there in terms of ostentatious dynamics and more reliant on a nice immersing melody along with that fretless bass jamming out. i even went and dug up the live version where you can see the guy doing some bass wankery along with the rest of the song. nice variance in here and proof he's actually playing the bass and just not cutting it up.

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