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Great Singers with a story to tell.

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PA

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Great Singers with a story to tell.
« on: 5 Oct 2014, 12:21 am »
This hi-res download has me completely mesmerized. Impeccable recording quality and a beautiful deliverance of the songs with a singer who really draws you into the songs and the lyrics.



http://www.soundliaison.com/

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Her style is bluesy and intimate with a sexy voice that's sweet as dark tupelo honey, and her interpretations are unerring. The musicians play to her and to each other, and the ensemble is so tight that the four musicians breathe and move as one.

There are some standards on the set that knocked me over with their fresh approach. Any singer can misplace a few accents and rhythms and come up with something that's original, but perhaps also uneasy and a little strange. Not Gomes, who has taken the songs to their bones and then restructured them to suit her style. Thus "Fever" doesn't sound like a cover of Peggy Lee; it sounds like a brand new take on a familiar song. You emerge from hearing it not thinking it's better or lesser than Lee's version, but that it's a valid new interpretation that could have come first.
Rad Bennett, SoundStage Experience.

More suggestions in the same vein, please .
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PA

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Re: Great new singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #1 on: 5 Oct 2014, 04:04 pm »
Gregory Porter  has something to say;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmDcWr1yqCc
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Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #2 on: 13 Jan 2015, 09:11 pm »
And this most be THE most story telling album of all times;
Joni Mitchell, "" Blue''


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Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #3 on: 13 Jan 2015, 09:58 pm »
No one can beat Sinatra on story to tell, his FBI file reach 1300 pages:
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/09/us/fbi-releases-its-sinatra-file-with-tidbits-old-and-new.html
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Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #4 on: 13 Jan 2015, 10:42 pm »
Three from Van Morrison, his earliest and his best (Astral Weeks, Moondance and His Band And The Street Choir) from HDTracks. Excellent recordings with the warmth of vinyl but more detailed.

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BobM

Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #5 on: 14 Jan 2015, 01:21 pm »
Just about any prog-rock concept album should fit into this category. Some of my fave's are

Genesis - the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhollow
The Who - Tommy, Quadrophenia
Sylvan - Posthumus Silence
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick, Passion Play

Then there are the myriad of folk singers from the 60's and 70's, like

Jim Croce (a master at the story)
Bob Dylan
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Simon and Garfunkle

And don't get me started about country music. Was there ever a country song written that wasn't a story?
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charmerci

Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #6 on: 14 Jan 2015, 04:57 pm »
Quote from: BobM on 14 Jan 2015, 01:21 pm
And don't get me started about country music. Was there ever a country song written that wasn't a story?

The title of the thread is Great Singers....yeah, they tell stories but to really feel it is different.

Like this album -

 

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kenreau

Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #7 on: 15 Jan 2015, 09:55 pm »
Mine are a little more gritty, slice of life like, but I really like;

Rodney Crowell (Houston Kid, Fate's Right Hand, The Outsider)
Steve Earle (albums up to 2004)  Anxious to hear his new Terraplane Blues album.
Townes Van Zandt.

On the harder rock side;
Lynyrd Skynyrd - nearly all solid songs, great story tellers.  Check out the lyrics to That Smell.
Drive By Truckers (Southern Rock Opera & The Dirty South) Check out the lyrics to The Sands of Iwo Jima and Puttin' People on the Moon.

Kenreau
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Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #8 on: 15 Jan 2015, 10:00 pm »
"Lynyrd Skynyrd - nearly all solid songs, great story tellers."

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Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #9 on: 16 Jan 2015, 12:45 am »
Stan Rogers - Canadian folk singer who sings of the tough life of the Maritimes.  Great strength combined with tenderness.

While we're on the Canadian folk/roots theme, Tanglefoot, covers stories from the lumberjacks to the American Revolution, War of 1812, and the two World Wars from a Canadian perspective.  Lots of humor, too.
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SlushPuppy

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« Reply #10 on: 16 Jan 2015, 01:02 am »
Anything by Jim White

Amazing singer/songwriter with a wild background:

"Southern Gothic singer/songwriter Jim White grew up in Pensacola, Florida, enamored with the sounds of the white gospel music he heard on the Gospel Jubilee television series. After spending his formative years on the outskirts of a deeply Pentecostal community, he entertained a career as a professional surfer, followed by a stint in Milan as a fashion model. A bandsaw accident which resulted in a maimed left hand seemed to end White's hopes as a musician, but after writing a collection of simple songs on his guitar, a friend convinced him to record a demo, which ultimately made its way to the offices of David Byrne's Luaka Bop label."
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HT cOz

Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #11 on: 16 Jan 2015, 02:03 am »
Jack Johnson!   :thumb:

Jim Croce! 
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lokie

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« Reply #12 on: 16 Jan 2015, 02:51 am »
 

When it comes to telling a stories, Bobby was one of my favs.
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vinyl_guy

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« Reply #13 on: 16 Jan 2015, 08:23 am »
Neil Young
Jackson Browne
Bob Dylan
Paul Simon
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stlrman

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« Reply #14 on: 16 Jan 2015, 12:31 pm »
Check out Sun Kil Moon's album called Benji.
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PA

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Ace Deprave

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jimdgoulding

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« Reply #17 on: 19 Jan 2015, 04:08 pm »
"Bye, bye Country Boy"- Blossom Dearie.   
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PA

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Re: Great Singers with a story to tell.
« Reply #18 on: 23 Jan 2015, 04:13 pm »
We are forgetting the master himself;

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Shadows are falling and I’ve been here all day
It’s too hot to sleep, time is running away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I’ve still got the scars that the sun didn’t heal
There’s not even room enough to be anywhere
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there

Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there’s been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writing what was in her mind
I just don’t see why I should even care
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there

Well, I’ve been to London and I’ve been to gay Paree
I’ve followed the river and I got to the sea
I’ve been down on the bottom of a world full of lies
I ain’t looking for nothing in anyone’s eyes
Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there

I was born here and I’ll die here against my will
I know it looks like I’m moving, but I’m standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don’t even hear a murmur of a prayer
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZgBhyU4IvQ
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« Reply #19 on: 23 Jan 2015, 04:18 pm »
Quote from: PA on 23 Jan 2015, 04:13 pm
We are forgetting the master himself;



Dylan was list twice above
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