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BetteTheRed said:
This is probably on the thread, somewhere, but I loved this tonight:
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Doubt it since it just went up. Added it to my Watch Later list. Curious to see if they follow the original or the Disturbed cover or split the difference as a lot of recent covers seem to be doing.
 
I have posted some videos featuring mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile in his role as host and band leader for NPR series Live From Here. On the show, he mostly does modern mandolin styles like pop, country, bluegrass, and even jazz. But the instrument is an ancient one, predating the more familiar guitar. So here is Chris tackling one of the greats, a Bach sonata.

 
To my surprise, Julia Westlin dropped a new video this past week. She's been back in her family home in Sweden awaiting surgery and had said her previous video would be the last until she recovered. However, she apparently got a new song out and recorded two days before surgery. And it's lovely. The production by her husband David MeShow is perfect and, health problems or not, her voice has remained strong.

 
And speaking of female singer-songwriters, Sara Bareilles dropped another track from her upcoming album. It's titled "Amidst the Chaos, is due out April 5, and legendary producer T. Bone Burnett produced it. And the song is a beauty. Glad to have Sara back in the pop world after her foray into Broadway, though I would suggest she's matured as a songwriter and writing for the stage probably helped with that.


Some nice choreography in there, too, by Nicholas Lam.
 
BetteTheRed said:
This is probably on the thread, somewhere, but I loved this tonight:
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Oh damn, forget Disturbed (actually don't, that cover is still good). Pentatonix hit that so far out of the park the ball went into orbit. Sound of Silence is one of my all-time favorite songs and I thought that between S&G and Disturbed we had enough definitive versions but apparently Pentatonix disagreed. And who knew Scott Hoy could go that low? I've always thought of him as a tenor but that opening went into baritone territory, I think.
 
Could have sworn I'd posted this here, but according to a search of the thread, no. Just heard it on the radio first time in a few months, and remembered how much I like it. Should be a anthem for the MeToo movement.

 
FEY on N ... when double nu's make a positive ... makes me recall a scene from the movie Monsignor a movie about corruption between the American Military, the Mafiosa and the Church of the Italian institution ... without malice ... because of the corruption carried out without cognizance ... not a Q'loo ...

It is a deep myth ... starring Chris Reeves as something different from a superior man of altruism!
 
BetteTheRed said:
Could have sworn I'd posted this here, but according to a search of the thread, no. Just heard it on the radio first time in a few months, and remembered how much I like it. Should be a anthem for the MeToo movement.

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They've come up in my recommendations but I've never bitten. Will give them a look now.
 
More Bach from the mandolin of Chris Thile, this time joined by the great cellist Yo-Yo Ma and bassist Edgar Meyer. This arrangement would work beautifully in a church service IMHO.

 
Been paying a lot more attention to Live From Here. It is a serious hotbed of great music. A couple weeks ago, singer-songwriter-performance artist Amanda Palmer appeared to perform songs from her new solo album. It's her first in 7 years. I first came across her via Neil Gaiman's Twitter (her husband) and she's been growing on me. She's not a great singer, but her songwriting is terrific, if a bit avant-garde, and this album is being acclaimed as her best yet.


 
Rock n’ Roll. Nobody knows quite how it’s done anymore - except those who’ve still been doing it since then, and earlier, if they are still with us. In the early 90s Jane’s Addiction managed to outdo both Lou Reed and the Stones, in this epic mashup. They know exactly what they’re doing, and conveying.

 
Dido with another acoustic revamp of an earlier hit. This is probably my favorite of her songs. The new album drops on Friday.

 
Some nice new songs/videos in my Youtube queue when I exercised tonight so I thought I would share.

First up, Sara Bareilles dropped another single from her upcoming album yesterday. I don't think this one is as standout as the first two, but it's still a good song. Audio-only for now but if a full video comes out, I'll post it.


Then we have The Hound + The Fox with an old Irish tune, assisted by vocal group The O'Neill Sisters.


Finally, Haley Reinhart has been pumping out material from her new album. This one is an original by Reinhart and her writing partner, but the style is, as tends to be the case with her, rather older than she is.

 
Okay, so when this song:


which I like, came out a couple years ago, I didn't realize the chorus sung by Camila Cabelo was actually borrowed and rewritten from an older song, namely this one:

 
While this was obviously recorded before yesterday, the horror in Christchurch affected Peter Hollens deeply and recontextualised it for him. Just read the intro.

 
I love choirs and this one from Dublin is magnificent.


The soloist is tenor Glenn Murphy and he is a classic Irish tenor.

The soloist in their version of The Parting Glass is pretty good, too.


And here he is again in the Gaelic Mo Ghille Mear.


Gaelic has to be one of the most musical languages, IMHO.
 
"Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac is a tough song to cover, though many artists try. It is just so associated with the voice of Stevie Nicks. Still, some manage it and this new cover from Imaginary Future is a good one. Jesse's voice and arrangement are different enough from Stevie's that he manages to do something new, and good, with this classic.

 
And Pentatonix seems to be back on their game. I was kinding of losing interest but between the cover of Sound of Silence that Bette posted upthread and now this one, they are getting me excited again.

 
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