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Post by bendle on Jul 4, 2015 5:30:44 GMT -5
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Post by bendle on Jul 4, 2015 5:35:42 GMT -5
When I lived in the UK, I worked with several colleagues from Wales, they were affectionately called "Taffy" not sure why, but we got on well together. I love the welsh choir and I loved Harry Secombe too, what a great voice he had, and he was very funny too. youtu.be/VHqocqOXtS4Taffy comes from Dafydd or Daffydd which are welsh for David. It has over time become a term for the welsh, like 'jock' for the scots and 'paddy' for the irish and 'yank' for americans etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 10:36:48 GMT -5
When I lived in the UK, I worked with several colleagues from Wales, they were affectionately called "Taffy" not sure why, but we got on well together. I love the welsh choir and I loved Harry Secombe too, what a great voice he had, and he was very funny too. youtu.be/VHqocqOXtS4Taffy comes from Dafydd or Daffydd which are welsh for David. It has over time become a term for the welsh, like 'jock' for the scots and 'paddy' for the irish and 'yank' for americans etc.
Thank you bendle for the explanation, I visited Wales on one occasion when I drove through the night to Barry from east London, that was a daunting experience because, at that time, the motor ways were not all lit and very dark apart from the beam of the car lights.
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Post by bitterbetty on Jul 7, 2015 22:22:18 GMT -5
"Bless The Broken Road." (Rascal Flats) I've come to view the healing process as a journey...And Oh! what a journey it can be, whether it is your own healing or helping others heal. Journeys often involve roads and sometimes those roads can seem awful rough and rocky; even broken. But, I also believe the broken road can be one that is also BLESSED! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a47fEuB9vo I set out on a narrow way many years ago Hoping I would find true love along the broken road But I got lost a time or two Wiped my brow and kept pushing through I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you
Every long lost dream led me to where you are Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars Pointing me on my way into your loving arms This much I know is true That God blessed the broken road That led me straight to you (Yes He did)
I think about the years I spent just passing through I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you But you just smile and take my hand You've been there you understand It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true.
Every long lost dream led me to where you are Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars Pointing me on my way into your loving arms This much I know is true That God blessed the broken road That led me straight to you (Yes He did)
Yeah.
Now I'm just rolling home Into my lover's arms This much I know is true That God blessed the broken road That led me straight to you.
That God blessed the broken road That led me straight to you.
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Post by bitterbetty on Jul 7, 2015 22:32:47 GMT -5
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Post by What Hat on Jul 17, 2015 21:44:27 GMT -5
Great clip. There's a mid 70s album called "Reunion: Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell" that escaped the notice of most people at the time, and is now considered a classic. I really recommend it.
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Post by What Hat on Jul 17, 2015 21:47:48 GMT -5
Maria & Margot Hellwig - Servus, Gruezi und Hallo (2003) youtu.be/gtd1ruUZfyIThis one reminds me of the Kleffman sisters (from Iowa; labored in Germany) singing duets in German in our home when I was a tadpole. One was a soprano, the other a contralto. Gorgeous singing, and got me hooked on the German language. Hey, these two are great! Fun stuff. If you are going to sing some of the love and death lieder of Richard Strauss, a few of these happy tunes are the perfect pick-me-up when you're done. And right after you'll want to play Strauss lieder all the more, especially the death ones.
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Post by bitterbetty on Jul 18, 2015 13:43:14 GMT -5
Great clip. There's a mid 70s album called "Reunion: Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell" that escaped the notice of most people at the time, and is now considered a classic. I really recommend it. Here's one for you What Hat; a Bill Monroe instrumental...I'm guessing he composed/wrote this song himself as he did most of his music...now, try not to get up and dance a jig! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViW5Nmu_UrI
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Post by bitterbetty on Jul 18, 2015 13:54:53 GMT -5
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Post by bitterbetty on Jul 18, 2015 14:02:54 GMT -5
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Post by What Hat on Jul 18, 2015 14:07:56 GMT -5
"Asleep At Last"(The Wailin' Jennys) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRR73dSKr7cBeautiful, sublime in the crystal-pure vocals and simple instrumentation. Sometimes less IS more...I think this song and how it is done proves that. P.S.-The only thing I don't like about this song is that it is just too short...I want it to go on and on and on... Wailin' Jennys are from Winnipeg, eh? One of their members, Cara Luft, went solo, and I had the pleasure of attending a concert last year. We have a number of great chick folk and rock bands in Canada. I'll dedicate this post to the ones that I know of. Dala Girls: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrFJFHRlsp8Scarlett Jane wrote this song about their grandmother's experience of losing her farm tp fire back in Italy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUF86i9SRocFrom Calgary, Tegan and Sara www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZHGeg_0RloI made the following video featuring a song by an Alberta group called the Doll Sisters. They quite liked it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkIvJ6SZgPgThe 'Be Good Tanyas" work out of Vancouver. What are they doing in heaven today? www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqi3Yo6c31MAlthough technically American from Bellevue, WA, 'Heart' have worked out of Vancouver for decades. Here's an amazing tribute to Led Zep that someone showed me a few weeks ago. Ann Wilson sounds uncannily like Robert Plant. Lots of surprises on this clip ... I won't spoil it by telling. Watch to the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK_DOJa99ooFinally, here's my daughter in a now disbanded group. They had quite a bit of fun for a while. You may know the song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz9dhSeJLd0And that's just duos and trios. If I got into Canadian female solo acts or lead singers I'd be here all day: Joni Mitchell, Sara Harmer, Ruth Moody, Imaginary Cities, Nelly Furtado, Alanis Morrissette, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, k.d. lang, Sarah McLachlan, Loreena McKennitt and Terri Clark.
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Post by bitterbetty on Jul 18, 2015 14:18:37 GMT -5
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Post by What Hat on Jul 18, 2015 14:34:46 GMT -5
Back in the day I saw the Dead live on a few occasions, most notably at the famous Watkins Glen concert in 1973. With 600,000 fans it still holds the record - twice the size of Woodstock. Far better than the concert was the "sound check" the day before where each band played for 2 to 3 hours. On the day of the actual concert things got just a little too crowded. Anyway, I didn't appreciate Doc Watson for a long time, because of his laid back style. But I do now. Last year I attended a Kruger Brothers concert when they came to town. They are a bluegrass band from Switzerland, and played frequently with Doc Watson; they are now based in Raleigh, I believe. Anyway, it was the kind of concert you didn't want to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZ6byJQytkIf you liked the above, here's a short profile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA5oHuSce3EThey were invited to appear on Swiss national TV. This one's for Gene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFDyG96-nE8There's also a clip of them on Letterman with Steve Martin, so they're beginning to get known. These boys lost their mother when fairly young. This song tears me up whenever I hear it. (It's been a tough year for losing family.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIomLzwaygQ
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Post by What Hat on Jul 18, 2015 15:41:40 GMT -5
That is awesome in the original sense of the word. Just sent it to one of my friends who plays banjo. Actually I made a video last Sunday at their concert and loaded it onto 'youtube'. That's him on the banjo. The film is quite shakey but doesn't sound too bad. Hope no one gets nauseous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzBKnoM5970
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Post by bitterbetty on Jul 20, 2015 15:06:20 GMT -5
That is awesome in the original sense of the word. Just sent it to one of my friends who plays banjo. Actually I made a video last Sunday at their concert and loaded it onto 'youtube'. That's him on the banjo. The film is quite shakey but doesn't sound too bad. Hope no one gets nauseous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzBKnoM5970Thanks for posting this What Hat! They look and sound like they are TRULY enjoying themselves up there on stage: In many respects you gotta love it and love what you are doing, even when performing, or it can steel your joy...me and my group have needed to deal with 'stage fright' and I am the LEAST frightened in the group...as I have always been somewhat of a ham...It does my heart good to see performers show their pure love of the music. Here is a vid of Michael Cleveland (IBMA fiddler of of the year a few times at least). I actually met him at a large bluegrass festival some years ago...what I love about bluegrass festivals is the openess and accessibilty to meet and maybe talk with some members of the best bands there are...pretty cool... Here, he is performing a Bill Monroe classic: "Jerusalem Ridge" in his own unique version...it amazes me how creative and unhindered he is as if he just lets himself go and what comes out comes out. Jerusalem Ridge rings of those ancient tones that I love about bluegrass music!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxnP8Z5JAXQ
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Post by What Hat on Aug 9, 2015 22:46:41 GMT -5
Finally had a chance to go through this. Quite a variety with an emphasis on the 90s. My taste from this list would run to the Who, the Cranberries, Johnny Cash and of course, the Animals. I listen to classical music more than anything else but I do not like the voice of Andrea Bocelli for the most part. It's okay on 'Time to Say Goodbye' and I like that version but Bocelli often makes me cringe. He doesn't seem to carry smoothly into the high notes, and sounds a bit flat to me. If he stays in the lower registers as he does on that song I'm fine. The guy playing the organ on the Animals 'House of the Rising Sun' is Alan Price. Burdon is a great blues shouter but Price should get the credit for the distinctive organ sound that I think helped make that song a hit. Anyway, I mention this because Alan Price made some good records including one classic song that should have done much better than it did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq3bLe6I_L4&spfreload=10
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Post by What Hat on Aug 9, 2015 22:54:53 GMT -5
That is awesome in the original sense of the word. Just sent it to one of my friends who plays banjo. Actually I made a video last Sunday at their concert and loaded it onto 'youtube'. That's him on the banjo. The film is quite shakey but doesn't sound too bad. Hope no one gets nauseous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzBKnoM5970Thanks for posting this What Hat! They look and sound like they are TRULY enjoying themselves up there on stage: In many respects you gotta love it and love what you are doing, even when performing, or it can steel your joy...me and my group have needed to deal with 'stage fright' and I am the LEAST frightened in the group...as I have always been somewhat of a ham...It does my heart good to see performers show their pure love of the music. Here is a vid of Michael Cleveland (IBMA fiddler of of the year a few times at least). I actually met him at a large bluegrass festival some years ago...what I love about bluegrass festivals is the openess and accessibilty to meet and maybe talk with some members of the best bands there are...pretty cool... Here, he is performing a Bill Monroe classic: "Jerusalem Ridge" in his own unique version...it amazes me how creative and unhindered he is as if he just lets himself go and what comes out comes out. Jerusalem Ridge rings of those ancient tones that I love about bluegrass music!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxnP8Z5JAXQA little slow getting going but he is very good. Especially like when he begins hitting the high notes about a minute. I also had a look at Sally Goodin.
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Post by ellie on Aug 10, 2015 7:51:07 GMT -5
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Post by bendle on Aug 10, 2015 14:51:40 GMT -5
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Post by rational on Aug 10, 2015 19:56:14 GMT -5
I love music, it makes my soul sing, and although I love hymns, some pop songs go right through my heart. This is one, it's not meant to be about God, but its how I think of him in my heart, and I'm always saying how amazing he is! When it says about no sin. I mean in God not me, and at the end I think of he's, and not it's. You'll see what I mean. But anyway it's beautiful, and the instrumental in the middle goes straight to my heart, especially when I listen to it loud whilst cleaning my kitchen. ;) I hope you like it. And what songs/hymns do any of you like? P.s. they've written some of the lyrics wrong on parts in the video :-/ I don't look at the video anyway, I just listen :) I am curious. What do you think this song is about: I feel sweet Do you feel sweet? It's amazing I have no skin And I feel everything It's amazing I feel good When you feel good I knew I would And it's amazing I've wanted this for so long Now the deed has been done We shall rise with the sun And spend our time as one I don't think this could be classified as a hymn. It reminds me of some lyrics from another song that used to play endlessly: You, you light up my life You give me hope to carry on You light up my days And fill my nights with song It can't be wrong, when it feels so right
YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE (Joe Brooks)They seem to be songs about illicit love but it is OK because "...it feels so right..." Both songs imply that the sin is gone because of the love. Of course Debbie Boone claimed she was singing about god but Brooks said that it was not what he wrote about. And I don't think that the phrase "...I've wanted this for so long - Now the deed has been done..." could be thought of something you would want to put in a hymnal. I doubt it is talking about baptism or converting to a new church!
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Post by rational on Aug 10, 2015 20:00:57 GMT -5
When I lived in the UK, I worked with several colleagues from Wales, they were affectionately called "Taffy" not sure why, but we got on well together. taffyA derogetory term for someone from Wales. Actually, the derivation of this word is as follows (from the racial slur database): "The Taff is the name of the river that runs through Cardiff, the capital of Wales. Also from a poem that starts: "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief...."
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Post by ellie on Aug 12, 2015 9:21:16 GMT -5
Counting Crows are pretty awesome . I like Mr Jones also. Their newest album is a bit different and has some crazy crazy lyrics, still good though. I think you had Zombie on your list somewhere as well. The Cranberries are among my favourites too.
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Post by bitterbetty on Aug 12, 2015 19:44:38 GMT -5
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Post by bitterbetty on Aug 12, 2015 20:30:34 GMT -5
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Post by bitterbetty on Aug 12, 2015 20:54:43 GMT -5
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Post by bitterbetty on Aug 13, 2015 1:43:55 GMT -5
Hmmmm...
All's I really know on any given day is that there is a language that seems to bypass many 'things'...shall we say...maybe that language is a language of love...maybe is simply a higher path...do we really know??? Is it the language of Heaven?
Well, it seems that keeping it simple seems work when almost everything else seems to fail...
We have "popular" songs and we have songs that are just handed down from one generation to another; professional or not. What a refreshing relief when we connect musically with someone, somewhere, that we may have never connected with, had it not been for : MUSIC.
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Post by bitterbetty on Aug 13, 2015 3:01:00 GMT -5
Well...all I really know at times is that the only thing that seems to work is : music.
Life can be perplexing. No matter how we try to make things nice and fair and nice and ...well ... nice, life can still end up being a perplexing thing... so then, what do we do then? What do we do when life is perplexing? Who do we turn do? Where do we go? What is the answer?
Well, sometimes it all boils down to: how can we pass on what needs to be passed in? And that is the QUESTION: passing it on...
Today, my daughter came by my home and we talked and shared and talked and shared some more...In the end---she took my Martin guitar home with her---why? you ask: well, in the innermost depths of my heart I guess I hope that the legacy of music lives on.........(Grandma''s Song, Lives On..) Who can truly deny their very own grandma? Well, not many--not many can deny their own grandma...and so it goes...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 16:05:40 GMT -5
Well...all I really know at times is that the only thing that seems to work is : music. Life can be perplexing. No matter how we try to make things nice and fair and nice and ...well ... nice, life can still end up being a perplexing thing... so then, what do we do then? What do we do when life is perplexing? Who do we turn do? Where do we go? What is the answer? Well, sometimes it all boils down to: how can we pass on what needs to be passed in? And that is the QUESTION: passing it on...
Today, my daughter came by my home and we talked and shared and talked and shared some more...In the end---she took my Martin guitar home with her---why? you ask: well, in the innermost depths of my heart I guess I hope that the legacy of music lives on.........(Grandma''s Song, Lives On..) Who can truly deny their very own grandma? Well, not many--not many can deny their own grandma...and so it goes...
who do we turn to? we turn to God...
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