Spondylitis Association of America Forums General Discussion Off-Topic Forum your favorite obscure music

Yup, Toby, I'd say that covers a lot of ground.
That's about as broad and eclectic as one can get.

Ms Jay, are you into other country performers as well? I love some of the oldtimers.

Isn't it amazing how many different types of music can appeal to us and touch our souls?


Spenser23

Oh yeah, Spenser, I got all of Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Keith Urban, all the Time-Warner sets of oldies, back to Hank Williams, Don Williams, Faron Young, all those that were around that my older brothers and sisters listened too, including my mother. I remember, barely, when it was announced on a Sunday morning that Hank Williams had been found dead in the back seat of a Cadillac I think. Right now I like Big & Rich, they're kinda out there, you know save a horse, ride a cowboy...I don't know why but I just don't very much care t listen to female singers. I do like this new girl Kelly Pickler, she looks exactly like my niece, so much so it's scary, except for the blonde hair. I was very disapppointed when my sister and I went to Branson. Lots of the old timers opened studios there, but the only name there that I recognized was Mickey Gilley and only because of Gilley's in Urban Cowboy. I like that song Alan Jackson sings,
"Gone Country" don't know if you ever heard it, kind of a take off on people in rock, and dancers in Vegas and writers etc. who can no longer make it in the big time, so they buy them some boots and a cowboy hat, and they're "gone country", so many new ones coming along, hard to keep up with them, there are about four blondes that look like they were stamped out of the same mold, one from Sugarland who has a song out with Jon Bon Jovi, Kelly Pickler, Lambert, Underwood, Taylor Swift,
and on and on.

Some of the old-time country singers I like are George Jones, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff, The Carter family, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson (who aren't really old, old-timers. lol) and Woody Guthrie, who, I guess, laps over into the folk genre, which I also like a lot. Leadbelly, Cisco Houston and The Weavers are a some of my faves in the that genre. Oh, and Bob Dylan, who laps over from folk to rock.

Then there's Robert Johnson and the Delta Blues ...

I'm sure with a little effort, someone could map out a chain that would tie all American music together. Just as you can go from European Opera to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas to Broadway musicals. (I love those genres too.)

Wow, I never realized how many different types of music I love.

To me, good music is good music, no matter what the style or genre.

Spenser23

Yes, and Ricky Skaggs is keeping the Blue Grass jondra going, with help from people like Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris *who he once sang backcup for) and Vince Gill. I have a Bose stereo, holds just five cd's and when I load it there is most likely some country, some rock and roll, and even some instrumental classical. Country and rock are moving closer together all of the time, I think hip hop and techno has kind of pushed rock toward country, along with rap of course, which, just for me, is mumbo jumbo. I prefer what Vince Gill calls that "high lonesome sound"

Ahhh, Emmylou Harris ...


Spenser23

On one of the country tv stations, either CMT or GAC, back about a year ago they did the top 100
truly touching country songs. George Jone's "He stopped loving her today" was no. 1. Now that's a real tear jerker if there ever was one

The good ole Delta Blues, I love all of it...all kinds of blues music, Robert Johnson being one of them.

Gary Moore's "Still got the blues for you"

Buddy Guy's "Feels like Rain" (this one is fabulous and includes Bonnie Raitt)

Buddy Guy's "Damn Right I've got the Blues" (this one has the best version of Mustang Sally I've ever heard, including Clapton and Jeff Beck.
PS. Clapton has called Buddy the best guitarist in the world)

Albert King's Mastercard (this was a single)

John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom Boom Boom"
(also a single)

this isn't a blues one but
Billy Joel's "Songs in the Attic"
which is a live album and the first album that I ever bought with my own money. I still love it to this day.

Oh! By the way, I LOVED Shawn Cassidy and had two of his albums as a kid.

HA! What was I thinking??

Char

I'm not sure if this will resonate with anyone here; but I'd thought I'd offer it on the odd chance that someone will find it of interest. A film about the life of Édith Piaf is currently playing in some larger markets and will thereafter be making the rounds to the smaller arts oriented
theatres. Here are the two official movie web sites of which I am aware:
In English and
In French
The American release is entitled "La Vie En Rose" while the French release title is her nickname "La Môme".

I love the line from the english site's trailer when her doctor tells her,"Vous jouer avec votre vie". She assumes a very Gallic posture and replies in a wonderfully rendered parisian accent,
"Et alors, il faut bien jouer avec quelque chose". If your French is up to snuff and you poke
around a bit on the French site, there are several of her performances there.

Also, there is a great russian site where one can
find probably darn near every thing she ever recorded. My favorites are:
j\'ai dansé avec l\'amour
padam padam
milord

In an effort to pique your interest a little here are some fascinating points of her life which
I have garnered from several sources. She was supposedly born literally on the street under
a lamp post to parents who were street performers. She was poorly cared for as a child resulting
in poor health that included rickets, periods of blindness and deafness. Abandoned by her parents,
she was sent to live in a brothel which was run by her alcoholic paternal grandmother. Her only child,Marcelle, died at the age of two. The greatest love of her life, Marcel, died in a plane crash on his way to see her. When her agent died she was accused of involvement in his murder. She was in a car accident and suffered broken ribs and a broken arm. She was prescribed morphine for pain which lead to her battling a life long addiction to that drug. She died at the young age of 47, her body racked by malnutrition, alcoholism, hepatitis, kidney disease, rheumatism, drug addiction, heart disease, tuberculosis, and cancer.

toby

I discovered Piaf when I was still in high school. I think my French teacher played some of her records, then I saw her on an Ed Sullivan show. (That really dates me doesn't it? LOL) There was a very interesting Broadway play about her some years ago, simply entitled, Piaf.

To me, her recordings always had more than a tinge of sadness, even when the songs were happy and upbeat. But they also had an undying optimism in spite of being battered by life, which is, I think, part of her appeal; that, in spite of sorrow and heartbreak, one carries on and keeps going forward.

As I recall, Marcel Sr. was Marcel Cerdun, the middleweight boxing champion.

Spenser23

Oops. Cerdan, not Cerdun.