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The Waterboys - How Long Will I Love You
What Are You Listening To Now VII
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@annabenedetti, you seem to have a fairly broad appreciation of music. Curious if you've ever heard this:
I really like this tune.
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No, not broad, and not knowledgeable at all.
Sugar Baby Blues was great, I've never heard it before. I looked up some live performances, you might like to see them working their magic.
7djengo7
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You know what you like, though, and it probably wouldn't make much sense to bother about being knowledgeable about music you're not fond of, anyway.
Glad you enjoyed it! Live performances of Sugar Baby Blues? That would be cool to see/hear.
I've only gotten around to listening to a few other tracks by Omar Sosa over the uears, and don't know much of anything about him. I just remember a decade or more ago, on a nice day, driving in my car with the radio on and that song came on, and I was instantly a fan! Super sweet track for driving, in my opinion. But, at the time, if they announced the name of the artist/track, I missed it, and some time passed until I somehow finally was able to identify it. All I could think of at first was that maybe it was Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, because of the style and the banjo; I was not aware of much jazz featuring banjo, beyond Bela Fleck. But, of course I was mistaken.
But, now that I think of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, perhaps I should recommend you take a listen to some of their stuff. Most of my favorite music is jazz/jazz fusion-type stuff, so I'm pretty used to stuff that perhaps a lot of people would consider kind of off-the-wall; yet, I've always kind of had this notion that at least some of the Flecktones' music might be potentially enjoyable to people outside of just jazz audiences. I've no idea if you'd enjoy it or not. I don't know that they have any tunes featuring lyrics. They're mainly instrumental. I saw them live three or four times in the late 90s/early 2000s, and I still can't get over how phenomenal their musicianship is. I think my favorite tune by them is Weed Whacker:
Here's one that might be a good intro to anyone unfamilar with the Flecktones' music:
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True, everyone does know what they like, maybe even when they don't realize what's pulling them, but there's so much more that's behind the music that I wish I knew. Or had awareness. Like your three great Béla Fleck selections, I'd never even heard of him so I wanted to know more about him, and come to find out there's a whole new world out there about which I'd had no idea. That's great, but also frustrating.
I did, but the live performances I watched weren't of Sugar Baby Blues, sorry for not being clear, they were Omar Sosa playing other songs with various other musicians and their skill and joy in their music was fun to experience.
I really enjoyed all of those. All three, but my favorite was Big Country, and although I'm not good at picking out all the instruments, the bass throughout that along with that banjo and that melody that sounded familiar yet I couldn't quite grab it... the musicianship was something. I don't listen to a lot of instrumental music. It's the lyrics that pull at me usually, but it was nice to step outside them for a minute, so thanks for that.
In looking into Fleck a little bit, I came across this. Linking it for you in case you haven't seen it. I might watch it myself.
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Bob Dylan - Most of the Time
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I have listened to quite a few Miles Davis albums over the past 30 years. So far as I remember, virtually all of his recordings I've heard are solely instrumental. But, the first time I played this one album all the way through, I was quite surprised when I got to the 7th track and immediately heard vocals, with lyrics even:
Now that I think of it, though, I do know of another Miles recording (one of his later, (very obviously) 80s recordings) that features lyrics, and this one I really like:
While I'm mentioning Miles, I have to recommend this track to you. If you like Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper, you might enjoy Miles' version of it, which is kind of a tear-jerker:
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I read somewhere (maybe it was in an interview of Fleck, himself) that he can't read sheet music too well if at all. Which inability is definitely no handicap to him!
annabenedetti
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I wonder if improvisation flows more easily without? Thanks for the above listens, I heard what you meant about waiting until the end of Time After Time. Thanks for sharing your music, it's been an unexpected treat. Take care.
My husband who sings pretty well would do a lot of Bob Dylan when he was young. In his older age he formed a five piece band he called Country Classics. There was a great steel pedal guitar player, a bass player, piano, guitars, drummer and three vocalists. They played for gas money. Now he mostly plays and sings with buddies doing mostly Blue Grass and Country. I loved being his groupie for a time. Now I listen to country and worship music. One tells you why you need a Savior. The other tells you who he is.
I guess I mostly listen to music at my church or whatever I come across on the internet. No particular band or star of interest.
I guess I mostly listen to music at my church or whatever I come across on the internet. No particular band or star of interest.