What are you listening to?

Driftless Dan said:
Notice that most of the rock and roll songs and artists folks have listed in these 237 pages are old, or dead? I'm sorry to say that rock IS dead. Sure, there will be popular bands and artists, but it's going the way of Dixieland Jazz. The last rock and roll song to top the Billboard charts in the USA was 2001, and even then, it was (uggh) Nickleback. That's nearly a quarter century. All the rock bands that are popular enough tour nationally or internationally at a coliseum-level popularity are old farts.

Yesterday, I once again listened to my very favorite rock and roll song. It was released as a single 60 years ago yesterday. It is a very simple song, 2:04 in length (and has not one but TWO guitar solos in it!), but in that short time perfectly captures the angst, uncertainty, excitement, of being a young man (in this case) in love. The Song is "I Can't Explain," the second single by The Who, and the first under that name.
I Can't Explain
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Rockn’ roll is not dead’ It just cut it’s hair, pegged it’s pants, and “struts” in a different way. By sayng this it reminds of the ahole Gene Simmonds who has been repeating that over and over. Rock continues to morph and will continue to. Music once heard or recorded and experienced lives on… it does not die
 
I've always loved beautiful music with rich vocal arrangements and orchestrations, especially if performed live. This has been a nice night for beautiful music in my feed

1st a recent cover of one of my favorite numbers from the late 70s that I always wanted to perform but never had the right lineup. OK, maybe not "live" or in front of an audience but it's beautifully done.

Then original showed up, apparently done live in front of an audience.:cool:


And a rich "vocal orchestration", performed live with just a mic...
 
 
And this showed up again. What a tragedy to have lost Karen Carpenter, and what she could have shared through all these years. A separate analysis video showed Tori Jolub's performance is legit. Her cover of Carpenter is almost spooky. And boy I only wish I could be as talented as multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and arrangerJames Wilkas; WOW.
No not "live" but amazing.
 
Also Sturgill released a great record this year but he changed his name and seems to be going through some stuff, figuring stuff out, as great artists sometimes gotta do…

 
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