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What are you listening to? Part III
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I love this Zep cover by Chris Cornell. I love his voice.
A couple Zep Covers I like a lot. I have liked this group since the mid 80's.
A couple Zep Covers I like a lot. I have liked this group since the mid 80's.
Many, many years ago I was driving somewhere and was idly listening to a new CD I'd just gotten which featured a local DC-area singer..... Then she started singing something that absolutely transfixed me and it is really a wonder that I didn't wreck my car because I was so captivated by this song and how she sang it..... I was stunned. It sounded kind of familiar, but not....whatever it was I needed to hear it again and again and again. It was exquisite. When I finally realized what it was, I was astonished.
With her version of that song she transfixed not only me, but many people across the Big Pond in the UK (she was a US resident) and, to make a long story short, she resisted signing with anyone who would try to shoehorn her into a specific musical box or genre; the usual "suits" from a label didn't quite know what to do with her. She was quite versatile and thankfully during her sadly foreshortened adult life she recorded a lot of songs with a local team that she trusted and that is why we have the vocal treasures from her that we have today. That beautiful voice was cruelly cut short by cancer. Fans are thankful for the various songs which were eventually released over time even after her death. Her legacy is her vocal gift to all of us.....
Some readers here will have already guessed that I am writing about Eva Cassidy. The song to which I am referring which caused me to almost wreck my car and which also made me a fan forever? Eva had an intriguing, quite different approach to "Over the Rainbow."
She performed this at Blues Alley, a nightclub which was very popular in DC during her lifetime and thankfully one night someone captured it on video..... Many, many years later this recording has been gently cleaned up and released on an album which came out in 2023, in which Eva's performance, guitar playing and vocals (thankfully!) were only carefully, thoughtfully, lovingly, given just a gentle touch of modern technical treatment and the track released as part of an album where many of her other songs were also addressed and polished by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Both the original and the newer, gently cleaned up version are worth a listen:
With her version of that song she transfixed not only me, but many people across the Big Pond in the UK (she was a US resident) and, to make a long story short, she resisted signing with anyone who would try to shoehorn her into a specific musical box or genre; the usual "suits" from a label didn't quite know what to do with her. She was quite versatile and thankfully during her sadly foreshortened adult life she recorded a lot of songs with a local team that she trusted and that is why we have the vocal treasures from her that we have today. That beautiful voice was cruelly cut short by cancer. Fans are thankful for the various songs which were eventually released over time even after her death. Her legacy is her vocal gift to all of us.....
Some readers here will have already guessed that I am writing about Eva Cassidy. The song to which I am referring which caused me to almost wreck my car and which also made me a fan forever? Eva had an intriguing, quite different approach to "Over the Rainbow."
She performed this at Blues Alley, a nightclub which was very popular in DC during her lifetime and thankfully one night someone captured it on video..... Many, many years later this recording has been gently cleaned up and released on an album which came out in 2023, in which Eva's performance, guitar playing and vocals (thankfully!) were only carefully, thoughtfully, lovingly, given just a gentle touch of modern technical treatment and the track released as part of an album where many of her other songs were also addressed and polished by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Both the original and the newer, gently cleaned up version are worth a listen:
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New release today...
Miles Davis - Miles 54: The Prestige Recordings (Remastered)
Miles Davis - Miles 54: The Prestige Recordings (Remastered)
Deluxe edition comes with live songs from a Greenpeace concert.
Listening to some of The Residents. Possibly some of the creepiest, most unsettling music I've ever heard, but I really like it.
One of my favorite Stevie Wonder tunes
And of course...some Chain Lightning
And throw in some Gerry Rafferty
And of course...some Chain Lightning
And throw in some Gerry Rafferty
Speaking of Chris Cornell......some people might recognize one of the songs he made famous when he was working with the group Soundgarden: "Black Hole Sun." He later performed this song on his own, including on Howard Stern's show:
NRK Jazz. Wonderful music in hi fidelity, live stream. Very laidback, oldfashion, easy listening. I guess I'm getting old, but I find it soothing. You get a couple of minutes each hour with the news in norwegian, btw:
I'm sorry. It's probably not available outside the country. STUPID ME.
Opens for me in Finland. Perhaps restricted to the Nordics or Europe.
I found this:
True Temperament Fretboards
When creating a standard fretboard with straight frets, we use a mathematical formula that I outlined here. The folks at True Temperament bring up an interesting point – this method for determining fret placement on takes into account one of the several factors determining how a string will vibrate - the string’s length. Other factors involved in determining how a string will vibrate are mass and tension. The model we use for standard fret placement makes several assumptions – we assume that all strings are the same width and mass and vibrate the same – they don’t. They assume that the string height is zero, which we all know it is not. So what’s the problem with that? We know that when we fret a note, let’s say at the 12th fret, essentially cutting the string in half – we decrease the mass by half. We also bend the string when we fret it, bringing it down to the fret, we are adding tension, thus sharpening the note. The higher the action on your guitar, the more you are sharpening the note when you fret the string. Furthermore, each fret requires a different amount of compensation relative to its placement on the neck.
I used to really this LP.
I gave it a listen a while back and wondered why? lol.
It does have it's moments.
He was another polarizing character wasn't he?