Songs With A Persons Name

[nwhoopfan]

 

[Bigboote]

Another great video that I didn’t know existed. Steve’s voice has changed, but especially for a folk song like this, it’s grown better.

 

[nwhoopfan]

When I saw that, I was thinking Eliza Carthy had done an album with Kate Rusby. Didn’t happen. Here’s a fitting one with a similar title from Liza:

Maybe you can wish a collab into happening!

I thought for sure Kate is Irish. Totally tripped me out when I found out she's from pretty much smack dab in the middle of England. Although both of her husbands have been Irish, so I guess she has an Irish soul.

 

[Plebe]

So many great "name" songs!

This one should be higher than page 15. Did I miss it?

One of the first songs I remember hearing and singing along to (we had it on 8-track!). I always thought the reference to Brownsville was about the Texas border town, but apparently there's a also a Brownsville, Tennessee. Hmph.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Patty Loveless was mainstream country, but later in her career went more toward roots music. Here she's doing a duet w/ Ralph Stanley of a bluegrass standard. Classic example of what I call a murder ballad.

 

[nwhoopfan]

And here's straight forward country from Patty.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Ah, reminded myself of another song about death. But this one was self defense.






Seriously, David Rawlings is not exactly a household name, but that man can play the hell out of a gui-tar.

 

[nwhoopfan]

This duo burned hot and fast and then disappeared, such a shame. I suppose I could've stretched it and used Barton Hollow, that could be a name but it's a place in the context of the song. Gotta be one of the best country songs to come out in the last 20 or 30 years at least. This works. They also did a nice cover of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean from this same show.

I hadn't really thought of it before, but this is a bit like Gillian and David--two voices and one guitar, and that is all they need, nothing missing at all. It amazes me how much noise can come out of one acoustic guitar when you have somebody that knows what they are doing with it.

edit--the guitar does have one of those resonating steel discs, that certainly helps in the noise making department

 

[nwhoopfan]

Speaking of Michael Jackson, I don't think this one popped up.

 

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[ConwayGmck]

 

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[Horatio]

 

[Horatio]

 

[Bigboote]

Blondie—Shayla

 

[ConwayGmck]

 

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Some more Boz:

 

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Patty Loveless was mainstream country, but later in her career went more toward roots music. Here she's doing a duet w/ Ralph Stanley of a bluegrass standard. Classic example of what I call a murder ballad.

Speaking of murder ballads:

 

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