The absolute fortitude of these women to get up there. I’m in awe!
Naomi Judd remembered by daughters at Country Music Hall of Fame ceremony
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/entertainment/naomi-judd-country-music-hall-of-fame/index.html
Thanks for coming around Deadsplinter and DUAN!
Bonnie Raitt – Angel from Montgomery
I love a good murder ballad
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds featuring PJ Harvey – Henry Lee
pulp fiction!
that is all
Ella Fitzgerald – Miss Otis Regrets
Rosanne Cash — No more killing
No female country singer can touch Connie Smith. I would say she’s the female Ray Price, but it’s more like Ray Price is the male Connie Smith.
By the way, that’s the immortal Buddy Emmons on steel guitar soloing at 1:08 in the last clip.
As luck would have it Better Half just concluded his nightclub act and it was an all-female-vocalist revue.
What happened was I got this piece of a job that I want to just do and get it out of the way and then we can eat. I set the beginnings of some spaghetti sauce a-simmering and said, “This is really easy. Every 20 minutes or so give it a little stir, taste, and add the Herbes de Provence a little at a time. Don’t go overboard; you know what it should taste like. I’ll be in the office. Try to be quiet because I really need to focus. I’ll check in in a couple of hours.”
So, bored, he put in his earbuds and pulled up one of his playlists and proceeded to sing along.
It started with this:
Song five was this. I came out of the office to close down the act but ended up doing The Bump with Faithful Hound (my calf to his hip; he seems to enjoy this) while BH performed his slickest disco moves:
He has a version that goes on for an astonishing 14 minutes. Well, not that astonishing, a lot of disco songs had extended versions with those kinds of run times. But now I’m back in the office and he’s listening to a 1940s Sherlock Holmes “radio play” that he found somewhere.