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MauiRob

MauiRob

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Just click on RECORDINGS, then FEELS LIKE HOME (CD TITLE) then the "humble me" track, give a listen and tell me if it knocks your socks off like it does mine.

Her voice just has that certain soul aching quality...

She just kills me!
 
My wife likes Norah a lot, as do I. We are both big fans of vocal jazz, especially female vocal jazz. Norah has a really smooth voice that goes well with any collection of Ella, Billie, or Edda.

Jake
 
Norah has a really smooth voice that goes well with any collection of Ella, Billie, or Edda.
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Indeed. I don't have any recordings of theirs but I'd like to change that soon.

Jake,

Did you listen to this particular track? Maybe it's just me but something about this one....
 
So here in Charleston we have Mountain Stage ( www.mountainstage.org )
which is a live radio show.

So it's recorded live and then played back later on. Only 12 bucks and last 2 plus hours they edit it down for broadcast. Anyway we go to see Sam Bush, I think it was, who used to be with New Grass Revival. They have like 4 or 5 acts and each plays 20 to 30 minutes. So there is a lot of rousing bluegrass and stuff and then they introduce this girl, good looking, Norah Jones. Everybody who left even these hardcore bluegrass bands were raving over what a great performer she was and what an awesome band and cool arrangements she had. I thought she reminded me of a female Ray Charles.
Later on that year she really got famous and rightly so!

Did you know she's Ravi Shankar's dau?
 
Hollow finds great music for us. He's helped me with several CD's which are my heart's joys.

I like her very much, but she's not Allison Kraus or Gillian Welch. She belongs, though,



munk
 
munk said:
Hollow finds great music for us. He's helped me with several CD's which are my heart's joys.

I like her very much, but she's not Allison Kraus or Gillian Welch. She belongs, though,

munk
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Munk,

You mention 2 old timey or bluegrass female singers. That time you spent in WV as a kid must have stuck with you;)

I've never seen Gillian Welch, but I've seen Allison Kraus many times. One of the Best was Rocky Gap Bluegrass fest near Cumberland MD. That was back when she had Allison Brown on the Banjo and Jerry Douglas on the Dobro.

That was an awesome fest, but the hands down most amazing was the Tony Rice Unit. That was when they were at their peak.

Hey I'm really glad you enjoyed those CD's. People have turned me on to so much good stuff it makes me happy to turn somebody else onto something that they enjoyed!:thumbup:

My buddy Matt I always buy him Mt. Stage tickets cause he makes me so many neat CD's He gave me two recently that are outstanding. One is a pristine bootleg from 1977 of the David Grisman Quintet when he had Tony Rice and Daryl Anger in the band. It is unbelieveable. The other is from 71 I think from BBC it is David?Peel presenting Pink Floyd. The whole CD is like 4 or 5 songs and it's all really long trippy stuff from Echoes and Atom Heart mother:thumbup:
 
Let's see..Patsy Cline, Sandy Denny, Gillian Welch and Allison Kraus




munk
 
munk said:
That one of the sister's- ?



Anyone remember Denny?



munk
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Munk,

Yes have an album of hers and several of Fairport Convention when she was with them.

Another reall great English band was Pentangle. Ever listen to them. I never saw em but saw Renbourne back in the 80s.

Ever heard the Roche sisters Christmas album?:thumbup:
 
I liked the female lead very much for Pentangle, until I heard Sandy Denny....


Hollow has turned me on to some great music, and Maui Rob has turned me on to this singer and the American Cash recordings.



munk
 
She's alright but not really my genre. One of my favorites is JoAnn Shenandoah.
We really don't listen to a lot of music except when we're on a road trip.
 
I LOVE Norah... she's one of my playlists that I go to when I need to calm down and get back in a good mood. Something about her singing does it for me :)

Munk, I'm a huge Allison Krauss fan too. Love the old timey stuff (got that from dad).

Alan
 
Kraus not only has the Country voice to beat, but she selects and writes songs that she can sing with real heart.

I don't know why I left off Kate Wolf from this thread. I have all of her stuff.

AC- how are you finding Sheridan?

I lived right outside Bighorn for 3 years.




munk
 
I LOVE Norah... she's one of my playlists that I go to when I need to calm down and get back in a good mood. Something about her singing does it for me
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You and I will have to get together at some point Alan--I have a feeling we'd get along great! Photography, khukuries, and norah jones--we have many important interests in common;) :D

The all important question is: do you like Johnny Cash? That's a deal breaker;) :p
 
What was that Country Song? Something like, 'if you don't like Hank Williams, you can kiss my a--?





munk
 
;) I know which song you mean but can't think of the title...But that's the general idea
 
You know Rob, I had no way of knowing years ago when you first started talking about Cash and the American recordings and how awesome they were, how important they would become for me one day.



munk
 
Johnny's work on those feels like it's straight from the heart. Deep aching tones on some tracks. I feel like a window opens into another man's life, an older man who has lived through much pain and found his light, and has chosen to live in it.

Sometimes I just have to pull those CD's out and listen to a particular song. One of my favorites is "beast in me". I used to think of it only in terms of substance addiction, but I think it can apply to any behavior or attitude that crops up that we find destructive---a cautionary tale telling us to remain vigilant lest the "beast" come out. I love how the song makes a point to distinguish the real inner soul from the beast, the behavior. A crucial distinction for me. one that was the crux of all the changes I have made in my life.


"in people and in things there is no such thing as trash" (from "from novice to master: lessons in my own stupidity")
 
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