Songs That Tell Stories

That's a big 10-4 (said in my best Highway Patrol vocal imitation of Crawford)!

That lp of Sir Jon Alot of...etc is one of my favorite acoustic guitar lps of all time. It is a unique treasure. the music on it is actually ageless and some of the jazzier cuts could be considered contemporary.

I liked Crawford, but was steadily amazed that he won an oscar for best actor.

I actually don't have copies of that music, but I like to hear it on youtube.

Was that the movie where the character reported in advance he is own murder due to a slow-acting poison?

You are possibly recalling DOA. I don't know how many of those films were made, but I always felt a let down at the end.

One of my fave poems/stories by Alfred Noyes sung by Phil Ochs:

Yep. I still have my Phil Ochs albums. I still play them today.

Ragman, that'one of my favorite poems as well.

Dear Hank.

A diverse set of artists brings Hank Williams' final works to brilliant light.

When a 29-year-old Hank Williams shuffled off this mortal coil as 1952 turned into 1953, he left behind four notebooks of lyrics that he'd never set to music. Those notebooks generally stay in fireproof vaults, though two were once stolen and sold to collectors.

A dozen songs from those pages emerge again on this collection, given tunes by some of the country legend's musical (and, in one case, genetic) offspring, including Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard and Jack White. The country artists, like Alan Jackson, Vince Gill and Williams' granddaughter Holly Williams, stay close to the Williams sound, both with their melodies and arrangements. The pop acts, like Jakob Dylan, Norah Jones and Sheryl Crow, take more harmonic liberties. All these collaborators clearly internalized Williams' simple approach to expressing complex emotions, none more so than Lucinda Williams (no relation).

She sounds inconsolable even as she sings I'm So Happy I Found You, which might as easily be a composition of her own as one of Hank's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxU84dInxrQ

That's a fine tibute, letty.

Just want to add this ending to Vaughn Monroe's song's story:



After the fugitive's fair trial and hanging, the posse
was treated to a chilled Pearl out on judge Bean's porch for
a job well done.

Carry on.

I love that picture, neko. Used to have a copy of it, but no more.

Rags, as to Black Mountainside.

Page was a great tune pickpocket.

There's no doubt that's where he got the arrangement. Jansch frequently used a DADGAD(Low to high string) tuning.

I was much more upset about Bert Jansch's death than about Steve Jobs'. I am so glad that I saw Pentangle during a reunion (or was it a break up ) tour. Anyway, they clearly were not getting along. Saw John and Jacqui many years later at Harvard Square's Club Passim and could not get over how different their personalities seemed.

Edgar Allan Poe's Annabelle Lee retold by the amazing Sarah Jarosz.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1b2vcHVG90

There is another song of Anabelle Lee, inspired by Poe, but it turned it into a pop song. I have not found it on youtube, but the lyrics are, in part,
(Annabel Lee
Annabel Lee)
Oh the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of my beautiful Annabel Lee
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of my beautiful Annabel Lee
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We are never apart
For I gave her my heart
To think she loves only me
Heaven offers no more
Oh I've been there before
In the arms of my Annabelle Lee

I thought there was an earlier version of ANnabelle Lee and I thought the late Steve Goodman might have set the poem to music*. However, I was possibly confusing his setting of The Highwayman (a poem I loved ever since I heard Charles Laughton read it on Ed Sullivan).

I can't find Goodman's version on youtube, but they do have Loreena McKennitt's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teq2m0BN-Wo

Here's a version by a band called Akin from an all Poe album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqeOtc7Dv1I

Here's a very soprano version by Joan Baez:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGj3CZ3uPQ

Slaughtered by Stevie Nicks:

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

A better than Nicks version by Sweet Sister Pain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y99BsG3xzww

I still prefer Sarah Jarosz' rendition.

Actually, I love Sweet Sister Pain

Thanks POM. The pop version I tried to quote was by a very young Harry Belafonte. It is not on youtube, but I have a copy of my own.

i remember when he would appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. It seemed like he always sang, "Scarlet Ribbons" and "John Henry."