What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

a small slice of a 60 album career
Bill Withers meets Johnny Mathis
soul with a smooth voice
3 time Grammy winner

#2 hit from 1976

[video=youtube;Tu0mzwM9yP4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu0mzwM9yP4[/video]

[CRAZY-HORSE]

I'm embarrassed to say that I own nothing of Rawls, or Withers and Mathis for that matter...
Not so worried about Bill or Johnny but I should get a Lou compilation at some point

[oldies65]

nothing to be embarrassed about, as for lou if you're a fan then by all means get some of his work, a great addition to any music collection.

[jazzboCR]

A factoid about Lou Rawls: when he'd play a week in Atlantic City, he would at his own expense have built a stage at a nearby Air Force Base and play a full concert. All band and singer expenses coming out of his own pocket. He may have done the same elsewhere (playing Nellis AFB when doing a week in Las Vegas, e.g.). Hell of a guy, sorely missed.
About all 3 singers mentioned: cruise AMG Discogs with an open mind--all 3 have surprising albums> Mr. Rawls, for example, has this, a particular fave of mine: http://www.allmusic.com/album/portrait-o...0000617870 and a song or two from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERLI4vI9Jxg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFft947gBkM (what a sax break on this~!)<< he started as a blues/deep R&B singer and that inflected all his singing--this CD just brings that to the fore.

[jazzboCR]

NOTE: If you want to hear a current singer doing Lou Rawls right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wws17ehdlM << Click on "Show More" for more on this sexy, sultry, adult singer. And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os3p2sW6GYA << Mr. Rawls did a killer version...but this ain't too shoddy.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

VAYA CON DIOS "the best of..." cd, 1996

career stats:
studio albums.............6
compilations...............3
singles......................19

this album...............#1 Sweden......#3 Belgium.........#4 Norway...........#15 Austria

Jerome and I swapped several discs a while ago....I sent him several he never heard previously, and in return he sent me several i'd never heard previously...
this is one of those....
very eclectic Belgian group....
styles range from jazz,blues,pop,latino,big band,even a hint of gospel on my favourite track...
the female vocalist has terrific vocal control and breezes through the various genres with ease, her vocals have all the fragility of a butterfly's wings at times, they
then have the sultry power equal to the greatest female jazz vocalists in the next breath....
the album just grows and grows with each airing(and ive listened to this at least once a week since receiving it in the mail...)
its a mystery to me why they have never charted in the US/UK markets,especially the US with all its musical diversity...

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: stay with me
best track: something's got a hold on me

[video=youtube;7ogsVHgb2-A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ogsVHgb2-A[/video]

tracks:

1...don't cry for louie ***
2...just a friend of mine **
3...Puerto Rico **
4...johnny **
5...something's got a hold on me ***
6...nah neh nah ***
7...I don't want to know ***
8...whats a woman? ***
9...time flies **
10.farewell song **
11.heading for a fall ***
12.at the parallel ***
13.dont break my heart **
14.stay with me **
15.lonely feeling **
16.evening of love **

3s=7
2s=9
1s=0

rating: 2.4

[CRAZY-HORSE]

BOB DYLAN "shadows in the night" cd, 2015

career stats:
studio albums.................36
singles...........................58

this album.......................#7 US...#8 AU...#1 UK

I was dreading this one coming out of the stack as much as that stupid "a letter home" from Neil Young...
Bob's thirty-sixth studio release....
this time he has turned his hand to crooning by rehashing old Sinatra tunes....
this could have been a nice album, but his off key warblings detract from the good songs he picked to cover...
not really an album anyone should like, but their are a couple of songs that are okay on it(and I mean 'just ok')

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: stay with me
best track: if im a fool to want you

sorry, but as usual theres no Dylan links on the usual suspect!

tracks:

1...if im a fool to want you **
2...the night we called it a day *
3...stay with me *
4...autumn leaves *
5...why try to chance me now **
6...some enchanted evening **
7...full moon and empty arms *
8...where are you? *
9...what'll I do? *
10.that lucky old sun **

3s=0
2s=4
1s=6

rating: 1.4

[Music Head]

^^
not sure I can ever spring for that

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Aw, come on....
Gotta keep the collection intact and complete like the Cohen....

[Music Head]

Aw, come on....
Gotta keep the collection intact and complete like the Cohen....

have only kept up with Cohen because they were original songs
can't do the covers thing