Grrrrl Mux By Amanda on August 11, 2008 10:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBacks (0)
A new muxtape of female artists.
Under the Rug -- Nani Bregvadze Georgian singer big from 60s onwards in Soviet type places, lovely crisp but dramatic voice perfect for soppy Russian "romances." Here is my favourite song of hers, perhaps he most beloved but I don't have it on MP3: "Snegopad" ("Snowfall"). Fur coats and Aeroflot - so evocative!
Enta Omri -- Mahmoud Fadl with Salwa Abou Greisha Sudanese interpretations/hommages to the great Umm Kalthum. Enta Omri is "You Are My Life" in Arabic.
Stretch Out -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Marie Knight About 20 years earlier than the YouTube I posted earlier today but just as powerful.
Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out -- Carrie Smith Carrie is a bit of a more obscure blues shouter but does not at all deserve to be. This is from 1977.
A Grand Night for Swinging -- Mary Lou Williams Great jazz composer/arranger/pianist.
Pace, Pace mio Dio - La forza del destino -- Maria Callas I only got this the other day. It makes me want to have a bath in the dark and have this drift in from the other room. Just me? OK.
High on a Mountain -- Ola Belle Reed Classic mountain music, she was part of the folk revival phase in the 60s.
Osain -- Merceditas Valdes A great name in Afro-Cuban music. I was a bit suss about the flute or whatever at the beginning but once she started singing I was hooked. On YouTube.
Nibari (My Grandchild) -- Umalali, The Garifuna Women's Project The Garifuna are a community of descendants of African slaves shipwrecked in Belize. The sadly late Andy Palacio brought the music to the world with Watina and this is the follow up.
Working on Beale Street and Crying -- Denise LaSalle Her speciality is NSFW blues which go from the risque to the downright obscene. Sadly, "Lick It Before You Stick It" is not on YouTube. This one is pretty safe except for some straight talk at the end.
I'm Through Trying to Prove My Love To You -- Millie Jackson She is new to me, this is from her best known album of cheating songs (side A from the POV of the wive, side B is the other woman). She can also cuss like a cussing thing and makes a lot of those worst album covers ever lists.
Cansada De Esperar - Angelica Maria Dunno anything about her but this is a cover of The Kinks' "Tired of Waiting."
By Francis Xavier Holden
on August 12, 2008 2:39 PM
heh - I have a couple of Millie Jackson albums around on vinyl. I'd back her against Paul Keating any day.
By Amanda
on August 12, 2008 6:06 PM
She has a "country" album I have my eye on.
By Francis Xavier Holden
on August 12, 2008 6:17 PM
She's kinda cabaret soul with lotsa smutty rants like a standup. Theres a limit to how listenable it is after the first few times. The strength is that shes out there doing it on the live circuit and to audiences that love it. Generally seems to have a very HOT tight band. (she'd make that statement a single entendre.)
By Brownie
on August 13, 2008 12:40 AM
I love Millie Jacksons stuff.
Isaac Hayes did a duet with Millie.
Here's a slab from his Guardian obit:
"Hayes had become a familiar face around Stax when the writer and producer David Porter suggested they collaborate as songwriters. It was an inspired move, and soon the Porter/Hayes duo were banging out such classics as
Soul Man,
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby,
Hold On, I'm Coming. for Sam & Dave, and the sublime B-A-B-Y for Carla Thomas. Hayes's work at Stax helped to create the Memphis Sound, which influenced the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and almost everybody who mattered in pop.
By Francis Xavier Holden
on August 13, 2008 1:11 PM
I agree brownie - I didn't mean to say she wasn't good - I as talking about her live stuff. Its a criticism of almost all live albums that have a lot of spoken word or mucking around in them. It just doesn't stand hearing too often unlike the music - still these days with digital you can at least cull it down to the music for repeated listening
By Francis Xavier Holden
on August 13, 2008 1:12 PM
brownie - is it just me or do you keep changing blog addresses. I never seem to find it.