Pickled Egg Jukebox-Your Selections

[mickthemaverick]

I can't say either of those last two tracks appeal to me Steve, given that I'm not fond of the plucking style of instrument I was surprised to discover that I much prefer The Sound of Silence!!

[bobins]

Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies aged 84

"Tributes have been paid to the singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot who has died at the age of 84.
The Canadian musician became famous in the 60s and 70s with hits like Early Morning Rain and If You Could Read My Mind.
His songs were covered by artists including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and Johnny Cash.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described him as one of the country's greatest singer-songwriters.
"Gordon Lightfoot captured our country's spirit in his music - and in doing so, he helped shape Canada's soundscape," he said on Twitter.
"May his music continue to inspire future generations, and may his legacy live on forever." "
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65455240

There's a few Gordon Lightfoot tracks I could pick, but for me it has to be The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - a song I've always found quite powerful.



"SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald

[myglaren]

I can't say either of those last two tracks appeal to me Steve, given that I'm not fond of the plucking style of instrument I was surprised to discover that I much prefer The Sound of Silence!!

You might like Mika Agamatsu then.


This is the one I like best by her.




A shame about Gordon Lightfoot. He wrote some excellent songs.

[mickthemaverick]

[myglaren]

I was listening to "Cumberland Gap" by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings a few days ago.
Completely different to Lonnie Donnegan's version (which is far better IMO).

[myglaren]

a response Neil's photo.
Used to love that and have the LP and the CD.
But I now find that I prefer the more conventional approach.



Some recognition for the trouble-torn Ukraine too.

[myglaren]

On a mission now

When I first heard "Pictures At An Exhibition" it was by a Swedish pianist, on Swedish TV, and was in lots of segments with a lot if interesting descriptions between each segment. All forgotten now of course.
I wonder if it was originally written for piano. It works quite well but I prefer a full orchestra.
But here is Khatia Buniatsishvili playing Baba Yaga.
Khatia is a wonderful pianist if not quite as decorative as Lola Astonova.



Seems it was written for piano.

Pictures at an Exhibition[a] is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year. Each movement of the suite is based on an individual work, some of which are lost.

The composition has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists, and became widely known from orchestrations and arrangements produced by other composers and contemporary musicians, with Maurice Ravel's 1922 adaptation for orchestra being the most recorded and performed.

[mickthemaverick]

[myglaren]

And speaking of Lola (who doesn't do PAAE) I find that she sings too.


Not too bad although not a patch on Jackie Evancho and Fernando Varela.

[myglaren]

H.

'orses.

[myglaren]

Iodine

You covered up that place I could not master
It wasn't dark enough to shut my eyes
So I was with you, oh sweet compassion
Yes I was with you, oh sweet compassion
Compassion with the sting of iodine

[myglaren]

Indus

[NewcastleFalcon]

another bit of wrong threading from me!

[myglaren]

Myléne

[mickthemaverick]

Prompted by Neil's request for pictures of Marmalade: