What are you listening to right now?

panzade wrote:

we just started doing this jimmy buffet song...lovely tune

Webpage Titlewww.youtube.com/watch?v=vfhNKK7rkhw

Just fixing the link :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfhNKK7rkhw

Chris Issac - Wicked Game

I'm listening to "Raising Sand" an album of duets by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (and produced by T Bone Burnett). It got kind of middling reviews in Rolling Stone- but I really like Robert Plant (actually more in his solo work than with Led Zeppelin - his voice always sounded a little too keening with them for me to really listen much to his singing) and I think Alison Krauss has a pretty, pure voice- and I love her fiddle playing - so I bought it.

I LOVE it. Song choice is wonderfully eclectic- everything from Eastern European inspired music to folk to old Everly Brothers, etc.
Musically, it's a great mix of Plant's kind of mystical sound with Krauss's American roots backgrounds. I like the mix of their voices. Although Plant said he had never harmonized much - I think he does a particularly good job melding his voice with hers.

The only disappointment for me is that there isn't much of her fiddle playing in evidence- otherwise- I'd give it five stars.

Chris Issac - Wicked Game

I'v never been the same after that day. it was like getting shocked into being by lightening or seeing jesus with a telecaster. i've been to 67 grateful dead shows but nothing beat that night for feeling like being alive and knowing it.

Almost cut my hair
It happened just the other day
It's gettin kinda long
I coulda said it wasn't in my way
But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly
Cause I feel like I owe it to someone

Must be because I had the flu' for Christmas
And I'm not feeling up to par
It increases my paranoia
Like looking at my mirror and seeing a police car
But I'm not giving in an inch to fear
Cause I missed myself this year
I feel like I owe it to someone

When I finally get myself together
I'm going to get down in that sunny southern weather
And I find a place inside to laugh
Separate the wheat from the chaff
I feel like I owe it to someone

aidan
I have heard lots of his songs but, I really like the one you posted. Hearing that song gave me a good feeling

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That song (although you'd never guess- I didn't till I read about it) is about how George Bush and company had (still have?-maybe not so much anymore) the population hoodwinked in terms of what was going on in Iraq as a justification for the war- and to a less specific extent how politicians in general and all over the world are able to do that to entire societies and the effect it has on the world.

PS Sorry for the missionary zeal - I'm just always trying to make Bruce converts -in fact I think if someone like him ruled the world it'd be a better place.

I'm listening to The Eagles new one- I went back and forth on buying it - I liked their old stuff SO much better than their new stuff- but then I heard the single: HOW LONG? an old JD SOUTHER song- and he's one of my favorite songwriters of all time - so I bought it- it's not quite as slick and actually better than I thought it would be. They've been working on their four part harmonies...