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Friday Influences Thread 09-23-11


Lee Knight

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Holy Crap, rsadasiv. Keep 'er coming :)

Lee, I'm still hoping to be sent down your way for work sometime soon so I can definitely buy you a beer (perhaps more). May not happen this fall though. Happy birthday man. Don't mess up your leg, I took a week to get to the Doctor's about my foot, turn's out it was broken and it was too late. Might need surgery if it gets too painful (didn't help that I fell down the stairs twice after the initial breakage, both times smashing my foot into the wall at the bottom of the landing).



Then my corporate stressed out addled mind sometimes just wants something simple, after you know, the rat race and wondering what it's all for (besides paying the mortgage and having a place to live):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am7yAdKn8dg

And the surprising song that has been haunting me a lot this week, mostly due to the acoustic jamming gig I've been running for that past few weeks that one of the other guys keeps wanting to play (and strangely I've been getting hooked on this tune):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOxCqSxRD0


And of course, this one is dedicated to Lee, who brought this up on a different thread, but I brought it out to play live. Didn't catch on to the crowd, but you know. Screw it, take a walk baby. Lou, baby, fudge factor number twelve.

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Since I aspire to write songs for musicals (and have had some very modest success in this regard), one of my major influences is Alan Jay Lerner, who I think is one of the best Broadway lyricists of all time.

 

 

"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"

 

I'm so glad that she's a woman, they're so easy to forget,

rather like a habit one can always break, and yet...

 

 

 

 

"On the Street Where You Live"

 

I have often walked down this street before

but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Y2VyEzdf4&feature=related

 

 

"Thank Heaven for Little Girls"

 

Those little eyes so helpless and appealing

one day will flash and send you crashing thru the ceiling...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Tdfci54fk

 

 

LCK

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You never know who's gonna turn you on to someone you end up liking... I'd seen her name around but I read a bit of American Songwriter's Lyric of the Week, a song by English singer-songwriter, Laura Marling, and, frankly, wasn't overly impressed by the words on the page, so I thought I'd do the right thing. I popped her into my MOG playlist and was intrigued by what sounded like a well-seasoned campaigner's voice, like Joni Mitchell in her early 40s. Then I saw a picture and thought, huh? At 21 or so, she's older than she looks. In the next song or so, she shifted mid-song from her highly textured alto to a young-Joni like soprano. (Mind you, she doesn't overall, sound like Mitchell, maybe in the high stuff.) I ended up liking her lyrical approach pretty well.

 

Anyhow, she's quite striking looking (OK, she's a doll) so I'm sure everyone else has come across her, but I was pretty taken...

 

[video=youtube;SI-cuKKQrN0]

 

 

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I posted another track or two from these guys some weeks back but the Black Dub album has seldom left my play queue since then. This was recorded live from project leader Daniel Lanois' 'studio':

 

 

 

 

And just to show that great singers come in all kinds of packages, here's the bountifully beautiful Amber Riley -- thankfully freed of the shackles of Glee-mandated robo-tuning...

 

[video=youtube;EZkAR-UMkWA]

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