Music Thread (post a song)

Carly Rae Jepsen so hated doing that song that she flipped and went all Roseanne Cash.

 

Three girls and their Buddy.

 

Another Buddy Miller tune with his wife Julie.

 

I present to you perhaps the most cynical song I've ever heard. In 1974 I went to see Randy Newman premiere his "Good Old Boys" album at Symphony Hall in Atlanta. During the first half of the show he played songs from his previous albums, and then after an intermission he played the new album in its entirety. "Sail Away" was the title song of his most successful album before this one. As an introduction he told how he came to write it. He and a couple of other musicians had been approached by a film director who wanted to patch together several artists doing songs over actors and dancers, essentially filming long form music videos well before MTV. The film was never made but he had written this song for it.

Newman's first song was set on a sailing ship at sea, and it was a big production number with the captain singing and all the deckhands dancing around hoisting up sails and battening down hatches and the like. When that song was over the ship would then pull into harbor somewhere in Africa and the captain would get off the ship and sing this song to the natives who have assembled down near the dock. Keep this in mind as you listen to the lyric.

If it doesn't become immediately obvious, it was a slave ship.

 

Give it thirty seconds, then stay or go. Me, I'll be here a while. Ry Cooder, Buckwheat Zydeco, Lenny Kravitz, and Irma Thomas. Get your N'awlins fix here.

 

I can't think of this band. British post punk. I think it was three guys and the singer/guitar player was a Catholic socialist. Band name began with 's', maybe.

 

An old favorite. Emmylou and the best version of the Hot Band take on Chuck Berry. Albert Lee with the tasty guitar licks.