MUSIC - What are ASF members listening to?

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[basilio]

Amazing Grace - but not as you have ever seen it before.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

one way to look through the back catalogue. Lots of links

https://bob-dylan.org.uk/

Not a Dylanologist myself, but some of the entries can provide context around the body of work (600 and counting).

 

[Dona Ferentes]

@cynic ... you offer up the full gamut, a plethora of choice

I came across this concert from your feed suggestions (watching a clip all the way through ). Aptly described as "Mumford and Sons' evil twins", they'd be great live, in the right context (not sitting down!).
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[Value Collector]

I love this video of Howard Ashman coaching the singer that sang the little mermaid songs, It shows how much work goes into getting the songs just right for the Disney films.

 

[Humid]

also at Milton, not 2008 but not probably next tour in about 2013, as a solo act. Intimate and wonderful.

Tony Joe White. (RIP; passed away Oct 2018, age 75)

Tina Turner laughed hysterically when she met him because she thought he was black

Saw him at Mojos in Freo years back awesome performance

 

[Dona Ferentes]

I spent 1980 in Sth America, mainly Brasil. The energy of the place grew on me, especially the north-east. Spending Carnival in Bahia was a highlight,dancing with / behind the Trios Electricos for days and nights, but just being exposed to the constant beat was infectious.

Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes is a Brazilian popular musician, performing under the stage name Jorge Ben Jor since the 1980s, though commonly known by his former stage name Jorge Ben (now sings under name of Jorge Ben Jor). I like his early stuff; I'm familiar with and really like Fôrça Bruta (1970) and from 1978 A Banda Do Zé Pretinho.

Another name from that time was Chico Buraque. Good complex Brasilian rhythms, musically a bit more bossa nova but, like many at the time, whose lyrics were directed to and affected by the repression of the Generals in the military dictatorship (1964 till 1985)

My alltime favourite from that time was Zé Ramalho, or at least his second album A Peleja do Diabo com o Dono do Ceu (1979); he was called the Brasilian Dylan by some for the complex themes he invoked and interestingly moved from an earlier rock base to more traditional nordestinho rhythmic arrangements. (Falas da vida do povo, nada de velho o de novo)

I saw Gilberto Gil live when there. He basically introduced reggae to the country and had a huge hit with a version of "No Woman, No Cry" around then. A good intro is the live album Ao Vivo from 1998. He was kicked out by the Generals in the '60s, exiled in London for a while, and it's hard to realise how the world has changed; what may seem even innocuous now was deemed a threat back then (and many people were killed extra-judicially).

- I've enjoyed revisiting the snapshot of what I liked then. To my ear, it holds up well, even if the context is lost to an extent. That's what I've been doing this 'lockdown Saturday'.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Tina Turner laughed hysterically when she met him because she thought he was black..

yep, the crossover with Cajun and Zydeco is pretty blurred. The Cajuns were called Creole for a while, and the rural groups mixed well.

 

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