Music Thread - part 2

My question about PRL artists recording in German was actually triggered, not just by finding that video by the Rote Gitarren. An interaction with someone who grew up in the CCCP got me thinking....

While the demoludy west of the ZSRR had some amount of interaction (with international events like Sopot and others) and there were established tourism routes (Balaton and Bulgaria were the primary destinations for the DDR) none of that applied to the USSR itself for whom even crisis ridden Poland was a dream destination not to mention such cradles of plenty like the DDR or Budapest.

That also got me to thinking of PRL performers singing in different languages.... there's some German, French and English stuff there but there doesn't seem to be much in russian (apart from participation in the Zielona Góra Soviet Song Festival or whatever it was called...

Anyway, here's Maryla Rodowicz singing with Franco-American Joe Dassin in French, the song is"On Se Connaît Par Coeur" (we know each other by heart?) a French version of Eric Clapton's Promises.

A bit cheesy for my taste but actually, not a bad song.

Excellent song excellent man
youtube.com/watch?v=vbqGWTxwZEA

You can't go wrong with Jeff Beck......



I have some Alan White(Previously a drummer with Yes) tunes that are in a similar mode.....I bought this album (Ramshackled) when it came out and still love it!



From the same album, this is just superb.......



This really was. in my opinion, a superb album!



I'll end my posts with the last track on this excellent album......Alan White at his best!

The greatest rock guitarist ever. Not even debatable, IMO.

100% agreed.... not even Hendrix,Santana or Clapton came close to him.

Jeff Beck was always my favorite until Stevie Ray Vaughn came around. But both have different styles.

Beck and Stevie playing goin down.

Hendrix doesn't do a lot for me. My top 3 rock guitarists:
1. Beck
2. David Gilmour
3-tie Jimmy Page and Joe Satriani


He was excellent.

Very true.Both superb guitarists.


What a great post!


I really don't know how you can say that as you are obviously a guitar freak...... maybe you are a bit too young and don't realise how early Hendrix was doing his stuff.

I was born late 60's. In my early-20's I was really into him, but his luster wore off. He's a lot like Eddie Van Halen to me, definitely a good and influential player but once you heard him, you heard him. Not much development in his playing, IMO.

This thread had a few posts about Celtic Music a little while ago, I am going to make it global now.I will start with some Rocky stuff and then go more gentle.
First off, from the USA,with The Dropkick Murphy's.....



Let's go with some Aussie Irish Rockers..... superb!



This is a Celtic Rock band from Brittany in France.



Believe it or not Beltaine are a band from Krakow in Poland...... they just get Celtic music...... wow!



My last post tonight is an old Irish classic, sung in a duet here by an Irish woman and a Breton one.....

A bit of Tom Petty:

Runnin' Down A Dream

What about something soft and mellow....

Mildred Bailey was a proto-jazz vocalist who's forthright personality and inherent musicianship wears very well in extended listening.

Oddly and infuriatingly there is no film of her performing but the recordings are great....

Interestingly she was part American Indian and grew up on a reservation (Coeur d'Alene)

Here she is in a Gershwin classic



And here is her signature song, Rocking Chair by Hoagy Carmichael

I just clicked that on for a second in the office and they all said to leave it on. Now there's a room full of African office workers tapping their feet to Gershwin.

And we've just had the Tennessee Waltz and Georgia on my mind.

Then again, it's Tuesday morning in the Sahel, there's been a delivery so everyone's stoned already and very relaxed. As the boss, I have to pretend to set an example so I'll not join in until lunchtime.

It isn't actually an old song at all. The words are old but in the typical Irish tradition they were originally a poem, put to music much later. The music was written in the 1960s by Seán Ó Riada, who incidentally would probably turn in his grave at the term 'Celtic music'!

Try country.... at my university African students loved country music....

Here's a starter or two...

An ode to growing up as a white southern male



Late trucker song (songs about truckers were a thing for a couple of decades)



Cheatin' duet (both were stars who'd had number one songs before teaming up for this with soul style backing vocals)

That music grows on you. It was big where I'm from (cowboy nights at the Miners' Welfare or the Ponderosa Social Club with chicken in a basket and quick draw contests) so I was put off it but should revisit it.

This is probably the coolest national anthem of any country and certainly the only one that's a cross between country & western and a sea shanty.

Oh dear, you really are a bit "Up yourself" aren't you!

@mafketis

Three great posts.Thank you!

@jon357

Interesting post :-)

What about a little gospel?

Here are the five blind boys of alabama (the group was actually made up of blind and sighted performers). The song is 'Too Close' a great example of how similar religious and erotic bliss can be.... If you don't know that he's singing a Christian message.... well there's another possible interpretation (bonus: guitar legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe is in the background).



The Dixie Hummingbirds were another long-lived group... on this catchy number they approach a country gospel sound (especially the bass in the backing vocals).



Finally a former gospel group that went secular... the Staples Singers with the incomparable Mavis Staples. This is a poppy reggae influenced number and if you look at the lyrics it's pretty clear her main man is the big JC

@mafketis

Some great performers and singers, but far too "Jesus" oriented for an atheist like me!

I'm agnostic but I still love gospel music and have since I was a teenager listening to gospel programs on the radio.

One way to listen to it is to realize the overt religious message is backed by a covert political message.

Even spirituals (one of the sources for gospel music) are easy to read in two ways: longing for god/haven and longing for (political and personal) freedom

in deep river: I want to cross over into campground (heaven and/or freedom)

they are also expressions of personal alienation (sometimes I feel like a motherless child)

The religious message is there but so are personal and political ones.

Yes, born and raised in sewers, you were deprived of the chance to be taught religion.

Enjoyed all of those. I've always found gospel music to be very uplifting even though I'm not religious.

Good response/answer!


Your sick posts are back.... are you back on the booze?..... if you must know,I was brought up as a Catholic,I was Baptised,went to Catechism,did my First Confession,First Communion and Confirmation.I only lost my faith when my father died when I was 15 years old.......

You fekking renegade! Tfu!


BS. You were a stupid prat when 15. If you haven`t realised it and changed your attitude till today when you are 70, it means you are still the same stupid azhole as then. Your fellow rats in the sewer have more intelligence.
Why are you so stupid? Is it in the sewer water you drink?

I think that drink is the problem here.You have been perfectly reasonable for months and all of a sudden you have reverted to being the rude, intoleable idiot you were before....definately an alcohol related problem that you have......


I am a few years off 70 still,ignoramus!


I was a scared religious boy that could not believe that God would take my father away....... for what reason?In the end, I understood.God was not evil.He just didn't exist.

No, darling, I only react to your personal attacks. If you can`t see it, go and ask your fellow rats to exchange their brains with you so that you acquire more intelligence at last. hahahaha


You understood nothing being a stupid prat at 15. And you still don`t which is a much greater fault.
All in all, go to rats for brain replacement.

You killed God. 🙉

Fool, you attacked me.Remember?