stuartk
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| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @bdp24 re: video, I still enjoy listening to Rodney's first solo album, which was my first exposure to this tune. Lots of great players on that one! | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @slaw It can be hard for me, too. But not in the case of that Hiatt album. I wouldn’t call it Country. There’s just as much Blues influence and some Folk, too, which for me, is makes it unambiguously Americana. You can clearly hear the Roots ge... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @frogman For me, Pharoah’s version is the most immediately appealing but is it too rapturously beautiful? Does he skate around the anguish ? Is Coltrane more courageous ? More obsessively driven to wring out every nuance? As always, I find Ro... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @bdp24 I was hoping you’d chime in. I’ve not been a fan of Alt Country, but it generally seems to be accepted by reviewers as Americana and I haven’t felt confidemt challenging this characterization. I don’t understand Ms Leigh’s objection. Ap... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @slaw Uncle Tupelo -- from what I've heard, Yes. I think most would agree that Alt Country fits within Americana. Tift Merritt is interesting. She's clearly not pure Country, Rock or Pop. What's the dividing line line between the Singer Songwr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados For the sake of contrast: Sonny Rollins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLFlJIqiMLc Pharoah Sanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaLidIjAw0 Phil Woods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9-jK_kSOo Booker Ervin: https://www.youtube.com... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @yesiam_a_pirate I blame the conglomerate music industry for the crap being produced and aired today. For sure there are excellent musicians and brilliant lyrics being made today- but they are not easily accessible. Yes, yes and only if you d... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @immatthewj I appreciate your thoughtful reflections. FYI, I was pointing out a potential "blind spot" regarding how we assess lyrics, not asserting you or anyone else necessarily falls prey to it. I can’t know that, obviously! I do notice it i... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @immatthewj I would confess not all that much. But in a way that makes my point. During the 60s and 70s you didn’t have to search high and low or put a great deal of effort into finding great songs. In fact, it was hard to miss them. All you ha... | |
| Anyone read this NYT story about analog audio bars? They'd have to be divided into sections for introverts and extroverts. I enjoy listening with others... in silence! | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? @2psyop Tones and rhythm are probably not enough if one doesn't grasp the significance of the notes being played. This seems to be a major stumbling block for those who do not like Jazz. It apparently sounds like a random jumble of unrelated not... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato I meant, lots of variations of "good writing". @immatthewj +1 | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato This thread has got me thinking a lot about what I’ve liked and why, over the years, and what has influenced my preferences. When I was young, a lot of the lyrics I liked were about the search for the ideal partner and all the associated emotions... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @ezwind Can anyone reasonably argue that today's young songwriters are putting out music with lyrics comparable to those songs? I doubt it. How much effort have you put into exploring contemporary songwriters? I haven't read through the ent... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @tyray I watched those videos and I respectfully suggest we simply agree to disagree regarding what constitutes "melodic" where Rap is concerned and focus on what we both like. Overall, from what I've seen so far, our tastes overlap much more t... |