What are you listening to?

iveofione said:
This winter I am listening to all of the world's great symphonies played by the world's best orchestras and watching the conductors do their magic. Classical music is so much better when you can see it being played and with a big TV and a good sound bar I can play it at volumes that bring out the best in in it.

I was exposed to classical early in life and always appreciated it but never learned much about it. Jazz, on the other hand, captured my attention and most of the great jazz artist have lived in my lifetime so I know them well. I can hear a few notes or words of a jazz number and identify it immediately, name the artist and the tune. I can't do that with symphonies and won't live long enough to achieve the familiarity that I have with jazz but I am hearing some great stuff. Rockin' some heavy classics here on the Frozen Tundra!
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We’re using Uber to get to and from while here in SoCal. We get quite the variety of musical styles. A couple of drivers were playing classical - which my wife and I love. We also heard a version of Take Five (with the original quartet) I hadn’t heard before: wonderful! Then again sometimes a driver will have the, uh, form of music that I can’t begin to understand.
 
Steve Young recorded "Seven Bridges Road" in 1969. Iain Matthews' arrangement of the song used 5 part harmonies, and the Eagles opened some concerts singing this arrangement acapella:
 
These guys randomly in my Tidal feed and I'm just blown away. Bluegrass, traditional old-time, and some R&B/soul/hip-hop. Her voice is amazing and she can play the shit out of her fiddle. So good.





Rhiannon Giddens also kills it on her own:



Lastly - I've been a really shitty guitarist for a good while but recently decided to be an even shittier banjo player too and stumbled across this video when researching clawhammer banjo origins. Even though I grew up in the south listening to old time music and watching Hee Haw every week with my grandparents, I had no clue about this history and it makes me even more appreciative of groups like the Carolina Chocolate Drops, etc.

 
 
Thomas Mitchell said:
These guys randomly in my Tidal feed and I'm just blown away. Bluegrass, traditional old-time, and some R&B/soul/hip-hop. Her voice is amazing and she can play the shit out of her fiddle. So good.





Rhiannon Giddens also kills it on her own:



Lastly - I've been a really shitty guitarist for a good while but recently decided to be an even shittier banjo player too and stumbled across this video when researching clawhammer banjo origins. Even though I grew up in the south listening to old time music and watching Hee Haw every week with my grandparents, I had no clue about this history and it makes me even more appreciative of groups like the Carolina Chocolate Drops, etc.

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Rhiannon Giddens is a great talent. In addition to her ongoing performances and her Grammy awards and much more importantly her MacArthur award she has been selected by Yo Yo MA to be the creative director of his ongoing Silk Road project. There's just no stopping her and she certainly deserves every bit of it. Much respect.
 
Thomas Mitchell said:
These guys randomly in my Tidal feed and I'm just blown away. Bluegrass, traditional old-time, and some R&B/soul/hip-hop. Her voice is amazing and she can play the shit out of her fiddle. So good.





Rhiannon Giddens also kills it on her own:



Lastly - I've been a really shitty guitarist for a good while but recently decided to be an even shittier banjo player too and stumbled across this video when researching clawhammer banjo origins. Even though I grew up in the south listening to old time music and watching Hee Haw every week with my grandparents, I had no clue about this history and it makes me even more appreciative of groups like the Carolina Chocolate Drops, etc.

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Thanks for this new to me music, I love it!

Here's Jake Blount's video for the song he describes toward the end of his video:

 
 
When the weather is gloomy and I need a little pick-up in my Sunday morning playlist, this cover never disappoints. One of those talented bands that didn't quite get over the edge of the tipping point to broader success.

 
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