Noisetrade - Best of Amy Speace

Amy Speace on NOISETRADE... http://noisetrade.com/amyspeace/best-of-so-far-noisetrade

I had to quickly check... this is the 12th time that I've tagged Amy Speace in this blog.  Suffice to say people, figure out she's good.  If you haven't heard hear before, here's a great free or TIP HER compilation of someone's thoughts of her top hits.  I'd argue where is "The Real Thing" or my two favorites:

Double Wide Trailer



It's too late to call it a night... (yes it's so easy to get lost in someone's eyes... mmm)  Still working on my band mate Paula to sing this.... her voice would fit it so.



I just might have to invite her to stop at my house concert... http://bluffviewconcerts.blogspot.com/

Gwyneth Paltrow?

I guess after the critics panned it, and my interests in modern country wanes; I let it go in one ear and out the other until I saw a video of Country Strong today.  Made me look up others from the movie; my goodness she could go on tour.  She's almost too much of a pretty slender frame, but she had fun shaking that thing.. HA.  You go girl.

This Must Be The Place

This must be the place to hear the official video for Belle Starr's This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)  was released back in July, 2012.  It's from the EP "The Burning of Atlanta"  and is written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth.

Belle Starr has graced this blog before, and my followers will know that I've been a huge fan Kendel Carson during her days either with The Paperboys or touring with Chip Taylor.  Now take a beautiful fiddle player and add two more beautiful fiddle players and you end up with Belle Starr... and oh my they are good.  You can hear their fiddle influence with the dueling fiddle break in this song.  They find harmonies like fine singers.

Biggest complaint is that their music is only in Canada's iTunes and not the US at this time.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/bellestarrs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BelleStarrMusic
Visit: http://www.bellestarr.ca/

Danny Blue - Dickey Betts

Well here's one darn obscure song that's begging me to learn it and cover it.  Danny Blue... YouTube does most of the work and tells me what I'll likely like base on my watching or liking other videos.. well they were right on this one.  Recently with passing away of Dan Toler I had watch a few, so I clicked on this one to find a song never recorded anywhere but this hotel.  I clicked on a bunch of other songs in iTunes to see if it was someone else's but to no avail.

Here's a link to the lyric's and more evidence and more that these are the only two videos you can hear the song.

I'll take a sandwich and a side of romance

It is always this time of year that the writing bug strikes me.  Winter chills?  Gracious it's not that women in Wisconsin or Minnesota dress scantily to entice me... it just takes kindness.  A flash of tender caring eyes, or just hearing them be nice to another soul.  I could die tomorrow, and I would feel confident that the world has enough love in it.. never sure if it's shared enough... here's my short little piece tonight to get you thinking...

http://davezeman.blogspot.com/2013/02/coffee-house.html

Your sweet and shiny eyes..

This is one of my favorite Bonnie Raitt songs... so much so it's my current most played song in my iTunes database.  Our little Lucky Dog group has a a few women who have adopted it.. and I play the part of Tom Waits from the original song and join in on the bar chorus.  I just absolutely love this group and wish I was with them to party after the video was done.

Always Trust your Cape

Guy Clark is one of those artists I keep coming back to... a great story song writer; nothing fancy about his voice either.  When this video came up in my YouTube video feed, I clicked on it figuring it was one of those dumb fan videos that just put on photo up and steal the song in YouTube.  I was wrong, and enjoyed the work done with pictures and words.



Then of course I figured I could find an interesting thing out there about the site... found this blog post that is very well written.  http://www.thindifference.com/2012/03/29/always-trust-your-cape/  hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Fellow music blogger

This blog "songs:Illinois" came up in my reader and I forgot all about it.... as they say:

Songs:Illinois is committed to writing about music that is under-appreciated and unique. I've found that the music I write about shares a couple of traits. And they are: lyrical integrity, musically diverse, and written/performed by compelling characters. 

http://www.songsillinois.net/

Dance me to the end of love

Just last week my Lucky Dog band added this song to our set list.  A Civil Wars cover or a Leonard Cohen song... looks like my friend Gabrielle Louise has also added it.  So you suppose if I host her for a house concert, she'll let me sing with her?... I'd want to play guitar so that she can fawn all over me like Joy Williams does to John Paul White.... HA...

Sooner or later..

"Sooner or later God will cut you down..." John sings in this old traditional song and for some reason I either forgot I had this CD or it was one of the American releases I missed... Well also, Sooner or later you learn if you as a parent did right raising your children.  Today I had one of those, "A ha!" moments when the iTunes account we share had this song appear in it.  I had to text him to make sure I didn't get hacked... HA.. seriously he does have a 22 year old tastes, but it bends to the new folk, and definitely Americana when he's not listening to electronic weird stuff.  HA.

Since my dad raised me on Johnny Cash Show.. generations continue..

Emmy Lou & Rodney

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell on "Old Yellow Moon"... 

Royalty in the world of country is joining forces and a CD is now out... well that's piquing my interest. One of the best cd's Emmy had ever put out is when she joined up with Mark Knopfler

Dear Boss.. let's get ready for St. Pats.

I truly love this old tune, story.. I first heard it 30+ years ago live by Kevin Burke when he was playing with Mícheál Ó Domhnaill... we did feel so lucky we saw them in an incredible small setting at UWGB's Blue Whale Coffee House.. so it might have spurred our passion for house concerts.. our next one is coming up so that is one my mind....Bluff View Concerts... Blog... FB
Here's your blog host... Dave Zeman Schipper

Anyone for Freak Folk?

My son told me about a new genre, Freak Folk, and said it's in this article he read.  While Niels van Poecke might be really digging into this too much... I did find it very interesting; and the second article had many more names that I could associate with; like M. Ward and the Vertiver (more on them later)

The New Weird Generation I

The New Weird Generation II

Niels van Poecke is lecturer in Cultural Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the author of the book The tragedy of tragedy, on Nietzsche, Wagner, and blues music (in Dutch: De tragiek van de tragedie, over Nietzsche, Wagner en bluesmuziek).

Introducing 3 Penny Acre

At least for me.. 3 Penny Acre is preparing to release it's third CD, and this song is on it and it available free at Noisetrade.



And of course here's thier FB page.

One Bed, Two Girls & Three Bottles of Wine

Hayes Carll will never win the good house keeping seal of approval, nor any American Idol competitions, but what he will win is your smile and laughter when he pulls off another witty song.  Now this is a pretty good recording and you can hear the words pretty good.  His voice wavers enough that my perfectionist bandmate would trouble with his on key performance... but you got to hear the story... and stay with it to the end.. at least he tries to... ;-)  Mind you there are no dirty words in this entire song.



Go say way to go at his FB page.

I agree with this Blogger.

Sorry Cillian, but this is one pretty good girl band, this Outside Track!

http://newyorkirisharts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/music-outside-track.html

Fragile - Sting Vs. The Paperboys

I was describing the The Paperboys last night with a passion.  Like how they took "All along the Watch Tower" and turned it into a world beat classic in the Red House "Nod to Bob Dylan"... then today I was making a genius playlist and "Fragile" by Sting came up.  Instantly I said... oh that's a blog, because I bet his video beats The Paperboys in views, but his version pales in passion.  See what You think...





Here's their Facebook link.. tell them you agree with me.

Dar Williams - Wilder that her

Last night at our committee meeting this song came up in conversation about Dar Williams.  It's such a wonderful cover of Fred Eaglesmith's song.

Click here for the video... it's prohibits embedding but it didn't prohibit me embedding Fred's version and if you never heard his intro... it's wonderfully funny.  To a point where I won't write it in the blog, you have to listen to it.



Of course go like Dar and Fred

Tell me a story...

The apple did fall to far from the tree, Larry McMurtry's son James McMurtry works in short stories, in lyric from; and when his take longer than 4 minutes no one complains.

Introducing Crystal Bowersox

Ha now isn't that brash! Everyone knew Crystal Bowersox but me! My bandmate Paula is always telling me to watch American Idol, but I just grow weary of the production hype. Once I heard "oh so and so covered Hallelujah and it was great" I went to the video... "It SUCKED.." no depth to the lyrics and passion to the song. Guess who loves gritty vocals to fine tuned slick vocals.. HA!

So now I ran into Crystal Bowersox in an iTunes new music release and it was good.  Then I started to back track and understand who she was.  Wow a busker who made it to number two on the elitist media music hype machine.  Well done.  Do you want to play our folk fest? or a House Concert?  Probably will sound a lot like this: