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And here's AJ Lee, whom you likely haven't heard of, covering and improving on a song by Tom T Hall, That's How I Got to Memphis
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12-03-2021, 02:30 PM
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Roger, I loved AJ Lee, and I hadn't heard of her, no. Thank you. 'The Man who made my Mama cry' was heartbreaking. Anyway, aching songs -
Tonight I'm with Nick Drake and Road - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQJmaKBcMzo
I love the fingerpicking in this. Like Bert Jansch but sadder.
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12-03-2021, 03:03 PM
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Here are my two favorite AJ Lee performances (both are covers) (and oops, I now see that I posted these two links a long time ago on this very thread):
If It Hadn't Been for Love
Here In California
And I've been glad over the last few months that Billy Strings is becoming better known and appreciated. There's pretty much no one who plays the guitar better than he does. His singing is pretty good, but not as outstanding as his guitar playing. Here are a couple of songs to prove that point:
Don't Think Twice (though he botches a key lyric, his guitar playing is awesome)
Away from the Mire (if you don't want to spend 11 minutes watching, watch the last five or six minutes where he does a sustained guitar solo)
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I recently came across this song by another artist you're unlikely to have heard of. She rarely sings, mostly backs up others on the guitar (which you'll see in this video she's quite adept at). Buckets of Rain
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12-03-2021, 05:38 PM
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She died a few weeks ago.
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12-04-2021, 02:52 PM
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David Anthony - yes - so sad - more Nanci Griffith here
https://youtu.be/thdsveOj1gQ
Roger - thank you so much (again). I have the proper shivers with Buckets of Rain. The real up-the-spine ones. Damn.
Sarah-Jane
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12-04-2021, 03:02 PM
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And, having listened to Toni Lindgren three times, here's some Bert Jansch
https://youtu.be/hkX7Q2J7k48
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12-07-2021, 07:52 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger Slater
And not particularly cheerful, but here's a cover that I really like. The songwriter was 16 or 17 when she wrote it, but it's being brilliantly covered by a grey eminence of 30.
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Jarosz is a brilliant cover artist. She is a brilliant, and very much overlooked, songwriter, to be sure. But she is also a brilliant cover artist.
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12-08-2021, 07:45 AM
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David, I agree that she is a brilliant cover artist, but so far I haven't seen much brilliance in her own song writing. To me her best songs sound like they are copying the later songs of James Taylor, but not as well. The songs do have promise, though, and I think she may be a late bloomer in the writing department even though she was an early bloomer when it comes to performing. She's also brilliant on the guitar and mandolin.
She covered a second Billie Eilish song as well, Bad Guy, which is a lot of fun.
Switching gears, some of you will know "Rain and Snow" performed by the Grateful Dead. The Dead do it quite well, but I like Del McCoury's version even better. (Neither one of them wrote it).
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