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Some Very Good Snow
You're invited to partake in sampling
one of the best unique voices in our lifetime.
She has an incredibly accurate range and can switch vibrato on & off at will.
I present Ms. Phoebe Snow.
The following is a live concert featuring her,
which you are able to enjoy for free, thanks to Youtube.
From The Independent;
one of the best unique voices in our lifetime.
She has an incredibly accurate range and can switch vibrato on & off at will.
I present Ms. Phoebe Snow.
The following is a live concert featuring her,
which you are able to enjoy for free, thanks to Youtube.
From The Independent;
In response to:
Best known in her native US for "Poetry Man", the jazz-tinged love song she wrote about an affair with a married man, Phoebe Snow possessed a formidable contralto voice, with a four-octave range, and a bluesy, smoky, soulful quality that, along with her curly hair and olive skin meant she was sometimes thought to be black, when she was in fact Jewish.
Her 1974 eponymous debut became a classic of the singer-songwriter genre and earned her a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist alongside Bad Company, Johnny Bristol, David Essex, Graham Central Station and the winner, the film composer Marvin Hamlisch. Many industry insiders attending the ceremony in March 1975 felt Snow should have won, but she was happy enough just to be there, and to see Aretha Franklin, one her main influences, perform.
By then, the delicate "Poetry Man" and her delightful first album were on their way into the Top 5, and, after opening for Jackson Browne and Paul Simon, she seemed destined to be a mainstay of jazz and adult contemporary radio stations, which had started to feature the easy shuffle of "Harpo's Blues", another deceptively dark highlight from her debut. In the summer of 1975 she graced the cover of Rolling Stone and was back in the US Top 30 with a stunning, soaring guest appearance on "Gone At Last", a collaboration with Simon and the gospel group the Jessy Dixon Singers, from his No 1 album Still Crazy After All These Years.
Snow took her pregnancy, by boyfriend Phil Kearns, in her stride. But in December 1975, she gave birth to a girl, Valerie, who suffered from asphyxia and was put in intensive care.
Over the next three decades, Snow rejected pleas to place her child in an institution and devoted most of her time and energy to her. Though Valerie's eyesight and hearing had been badly affected and she couldn't speak, she did recognise her mother and enjoyed her singing. Snow never regretted her decision to sacrifice her career and care for her daughter who defied medical expectations and died in 2007.
However, Snow struggled with self-esteem and weight issues, and a music business desperate to pigeonhole her. "I'm not a natural gorgeous person," she reflected. "I mean, if I'm gonna look presentable, I have to work at it." To support her daughter, she recorded advertising jingles and commercials in a voice so distinctive she could only do a handful a year.
Snow was not only a sensitive singer-songwriter of disarming honesty, but also a supreme interpreter of other people's material, as she demonstrated on P.S. and I Can't Complain, the two albums of covers she released in the nineties. Indeed, she scored her only UK hit in 1979 with a wonderful version of Paul McCartney's "Every Night", from the Beatle's 1970 solo debut that she reinterpreted for Against The Grain, the last of her four Columbia albums.
Born in New York in 1950, she grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. Her father, who worked for Viking Press and subsequently as a pest controller, was a frustrated performer, and struggled to come to terms with her precociousness. But her mother, a dance teacher, saw her daughter's talent and bought her piano and dance lessons....
Best known in her native US for "Poetry Man", the jazz-tinged love song she wrote about an affair with a married man, Phoebe Snow possessed a formidable contralto voice, with a four-octave range, and a bluesy, smoky, soulful quality that, along with her curly hair and olive skin meant she was sometimes thought to be black, when she was in fact Jewish.
Her 1974 eponymous debut became a classic of the singer-songwriter genre and earned her a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist alongside Bad Company, Johnny Bristol, David Essex, Graham Central Station and the winner, the film composer Marvin Hamlisch. Many industry insiders attending the ceremony in March 1975 felt Snow should have won, but she was happy enough just to be there, and to see Aretha Franklin, one her main influences, perform.
By then, the delicate "Poetry Man" and her delightful first album were on their way into the Top 5, and, after opening for Jackson Browne and Paul Simon, she seemed destined to be a mainstay of jazz and adult contemporary radio stations, which had started to feature the easy shuffle of "Harpo's Blues", another deceptively dark highlight from her debut. In the summer of 1975 she graced the cover of Rolling Stone and was back in the US Top 30 with a stunning, soaring guest appearance on "Gone At Last", a collaboration with Simon and the gospel group the Jessy Dixon Singers, from his No 1 album Still Crazy After All These Years.
Snow took her pregnancy, by boyfriend Phil Kearns, in her stride. But in December 1975, she gave birth to a girl, Valerie, who suffered from asphyxia and was put in intensive care.
Over the next three decades, Snow rejected pleas to place her child in an institution and devoted most of her time and energy to her. Though Valerie's eyesight and hearing had been badly affected and she couldn't speak, she did recognise her mother and enjoyed her singing. Snow never regretted her decision to sacrifice her career and care for her daughter who defied medical expectations and died in 2007.
However, Snow struggled with self-esteem and weight issues, and a music business desperate to pigeonhole her. "I'm not a natural gorgeous person," she reflected. "I mean, if I'm gonna look presentable, I have to work at it." To support her daughter, she recorded advertising jingles and commercials in a voice so distinctive she could only do a handful a year.
Snow was not only a sensitive singer-songwriter of disarming honesty, but also a supreme interpreter of other people's material, as she demonstrated on P.S. and I Can't Complain, the two albums of covers she released in the nineties. Indeed, she scored her only UK hit in 1979 with a wonderful version of Paul McCartney's "Every Night", from the Beatle's 1970 solo debut that she reinterpreted for Against The Grain, the last of her four Columbia albums.
Born in New York in 1950, she grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. Her father, who worked for Viking Press and subsequently as a pest controller, was a frustrated performer, and struggled to come to terms with her precociousness. But her mother, a dance teacher, saw her daughter's talent and bought her piano and dance lessons....
Peter White acoustic guitar songs a generous youtube playlist
Amazingly, someone on Youtube linked together a playlist of over 100 songs by acoustic guitarist Peter White. Peter lays down subtle complex acoustic guitar riffs often weaved with cool sax and piano play within the framework of popular songs resulting in peaceful relaxing and inspiring music,
I mostly am blogging this for my own usage at later dates, but perhaps others might also enjoy the smooth tracks too. If so, enjoy
::happyplace:
I mostly am blogging this for my own usage at later dates, but perhaps others might also enjoy the smooth tracks too. If so, enjoy
::happyplace:
Original v/s Remake
This was the Original song from decades ago... 
And this is the Remake version just been released ...
Now the question is , can the Remake Replace the Original , if we compare between These Two !!!
And this is the Remake version just been released ...
Now the question is , can the Remake Replace the Original , if we compare between These Two !!!
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Unwound G...
I must have been eleven when my dad took me to a music store/pawn shop to buy my first guitar. It was $17 and we didn't have the cash to pay for it at one time. They trusted my dad to return later to pay the balance.
It was a no-name steel string Spanish guitar with a wound G-string.
The metal used in guitar strings before the 1970's wasn't very high tech. The first 2 strings (E and B) were solid and the other 4 (G, D, A, E) were solid with a bronze winding. The reason for this is a solid string of a thick diameter is nearly impossible to bend.
Electric guitars were increasingly popular and string manufacturers were experimenting with different metals to create strings of different factors giving guitarists choices they never had before. Thickness (string gauge) tone, style of play were some of the factors guitarists were seeking in a set of strings.
I remember strings would rust if you kept your guitar in a humid environment.
I tried stainless steel strings once (that didn't rust) but they were so hard to play they burned at my callouses.
The main guitar manufacturers (Fender and Gibson) had their own brand, but in the late 60's another string company Ernie Ball emerged. Ernie's product was superior in metal and string gauge. Slinky became a house name for strings that were easy to bend and play the popular styles. One factor in Slinky strings was the thinner unwound G-string.
I read somewhere that Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck were dissatisfied with the guitar strings available and used thin gauge banjo strings. That helped them achieve a 'twangy' sound the heavier strings couldn't create.
Being left-handed it's unusual to walk into a guitar store and find left handed guitars on the rack. 20+ years ago I found a cheap Indonesian made Fender Stratocaster style guitar, left-handed so I bought it. For the most part, it's an ornament in my collection and today I noticed the strings were really high. Inspection showed the wood cracked there the bolts hold the bridge assembly. Okay, I removed the strings and bridge and did some surgery with toothpicks and super glue. Amazed at the amount of dust and corrosion, this guitar didn't get much care from me. I bought strings earlier this year... it's time.
I wiped a few years of dust off the guitar and with the bridge back to it's normal position it's playable with extra light gauge slinky strings. Unwound G and all...
It was a no-name steel string Spanish guitar with a wound G-string.
The metal used in guitar strings before the 1970's wasn't very high tech. The first 2 strings (E and B) were solid and the other 4 (G, D, A, E) were solid with a bronze winding. The reason for this is a solid string of a thick diameter is nearly impossible to bend.
Electric guitars were increasingly popular and string manufacturers were experimenting with different metals to create strings of different factors giving guitarists choices they never had before. Thickness (string gauge) tone, style of play were some of the factors guitarists were seeking in a set of strings.
I remember strings would rust if you kept your guitar in a humid environment.
I tried stainless steel strings once (that didn't rust) but they were so hard to play they burned at my callouses.
The main guitar manufacturers (Fender and Gibson) had their own brand, but in the late 60's another string company Ernie Ball emerged. Ernie's product was superior in metal and string gauge. Slinky became a house name for strings that were easy to bend and play the popular styles. One factor in Slinky strings was the thinner unwound G-string.
I read somewhere that Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck were dissatisfied with the guitar strings available and used thin gauge banjo strings. That helped them achieve a 'twangy' sound the heavier strings couldn't create.
Being left-handed it's unusual to walk into a guitar store and find left handed guitars on the rack. 20+ years ago I found a cheap Indonesian made Fender Stratocaster style guitar, left-handed so I bought it. For the most part, it's an ornament in my collection and today I noticed the strings were really high. Inspection showed the wood cracked there the bolts hold the bridge assembly. Okay, I removed the strings and bridge and did some surgery with toothpicks and super glue. Amazed at the amount of dust and corrosion, this guitar didn't get much care from me. I bought strings earlier this year... it's time.
I wiped a few years of dust off the guitar and with the bridge back to it's normal position it's playable with extra light gauge slinky strings. Unwound G and all...
online today!
SLAPP...
Conventional electric bass playing uses the extended fingers to pluck the strings the same way an upright (concert double bass) is played from generations ago. 'Slap' is a more recent style of bass guitar playing that involves a downward striking the lower pitched strings (slap) with the thumb. The player's hand is cupped to upwardly pluck the higher pitched strings with the index, middle and ring fingers creating a syncopated rhythm. The slap effect has a brighter sound than normal playing and makes the bassist stand out sonically.
That said... I've been following an Italian musician, Davide Biale who runs a YouTube channel by the handle Davie504. He does a variety of videos that support SLAP.
Extremely popular, his channel has 9.77 million subscribers and his videos get millions of plays. Davie is talented, comical, informative and many other things. Distorted face effects, rain for sadness, sparks of energy when the users slap him to make things happen are typical in his videos. So is the click-bait and challenges with other YouTubers. His signature video sign-off is a slap followed by a few seconds of 'emotional support' to pretend he's listening to the viewer and offering advice.
One of my favorite videos is his solo slap performance with chords and tapping style. I know he plays piano and guitar very well, he downplays this as bass is the only 'real' instrument in the world. This is the 'raw' solo version. There are a few videos with other musicians adding flavor to his bass track.
That said... I've been following an Italian musician, Davide Biale who runs a YouTube channel by the handle Davie504. He does a variety of videos that support SLAP.
Extremely popular, his channel has 9.77 million subscribers and his videos get millions of plays. Davie is talented, comical, informative and many other things. Distorted face effects, rain for sadness, sparks of energy when the users slap him to make things happen are typical in his videos. So is the click-bait and challenges with other YouTubers. His signature video sign-off is a slap followed by a few seconds of 'emotional support' to pretend he's listening to the viewer and offering advice.
One of my favorite videos is his solo slap performance with chords and tapping style. I know he plays piano and guitar very well, he downplays this as bass is the only 'real' instrument in the world. This is the 'raw' solo version. There are a few videos with other musicians adding flavor to his bass track.
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