Music Thread (post a song)

This has to be my favorite song of the last, oh, well, several years, and it's barely a year old. Dave Hause is just tremendous. He just speaks to me.

Note: The performance is essentially the setup of his performance in Chapel Hill I saw earlier this year. Best show I've seen in a while. Grateful to Dave.

 

I still think the 2 groups could've done a home-and-home and killed it in 1987 with a redo of "Sweet Emotion."

 

With the Basie Orchestra yet. She looks like she's really enjoying herself. Decent cover.

 

I really want to like Billie Eilish, but she's got a lot of Gen-AAA crap out there that is way above my grand-niece's pay grade, much less mine. She is wicked talented, I admit, and still might win me over.

 

Rhiannon Giddens and Jason Isbell team up on this track, part of Giddens' new album.

 

And the Old Commander. The little girl with pigtails is Nicolette Larson.

 

I saw her on Carpool Karaoke when she was just starting to hit big. She was a very talented kid, great partnership with her brother on production. She's grown up in a media fishbowl that I couldn't comprehend dealing with. What I liked best about this one is that she's singing hell out of "Fever" in front of a talented big band and greatly enjoying herself.

 

Jenny Lewis never really misses for me. I can just play an album and not think about it for an hour.

 

Finneas is a wonderful performer. Saw him at a HoB a couple of years ago and although he's not in shouting distance of my taste profile and I'm not his target demographic, I enjoyed the hell out of him and will be disappointed if I don't have to chaperone his next local gig.

 

I'm in the same boat. The music isn't really my cup of tea, but both of them (and their parents, btw) impress the hell out of me. Outside of the music, watching her deal with TMZ type coverage, body shaming and such by first, covering up and not playing, then coming out at the time of her choosing in a lingerie shoot that made the cover of Vogue, that impressed the hell out of me. There are so many musicians that I followed who were talented and promising but couldn't handle the things that swirl around them and died or cratered. I have hopes that she sidesteps that.

That's by no means a *great* version of that song. It's competent and has a couple of spots that really shine. It's more that I was watching her kind of delight in doing it, and that resonated strongly.

 

That's really nice. I'll look her up. Thanks.

 

Ugh.

Controversial country song Rich Men North of Richmond makes US chart history