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Marko, I had never heard that version of I Walk the Line but, yes, that's what I'm talking about.  I quite like the Live version. 

Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole's version of Take Me Home Country Roads while good, doesn't have the magic of his Somewhere Over the Rainbow.  Whereas the latter, when I first heard it, had me stopping in my tracks, the former, not so much.

As for Johnny Cash's Hurt, I absolutely abhor that song.  It's music to commit suicide by.  I'm sure there's a story behind the song and his recording but I just find it incredibly depressing.

Once again, these are all just my opinions and I have no doubt that others could rightly refute my thoughts.

Marko, I had never heard that version of I Walk the Line but, yes, that's what I'm talking about.  I quite like the Live version. 

Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole's version of Take Me Home Country Roads while good, doesn't have the magic of his Somewhere Over the Rainbow.  Whereas the latter, when I first heard it, had me stopping in my tracks, the former, not so much.

As for Johnny Cash's Hurt, I absolutely abhor that song.  It's music to commit suicide by.  I'm sure there's a story behind the song and his recording but I just find it incredibly depressing.

Once again, these are all just my opinions and I have no doubt that others could rightly refute my thoughts.

I also really like Live’s version of I Walk The Line. 

I agree with you on Hurt, it’s about drug addiction so I guess it stands to reason that it’s depressing. Cash has plenty of experience with that. I offered it as an example of an artist completely remaking a song. Cash’s version is quite distinct from the original by Nine Inch Nails. 

I also agree with you on Country Road. Iz’s arrangement of Over the rainbow/wonderful world is transcendent.

Freddy  check this out - The Blind Boys of Alabama singing an arrangement of Amazing Grace to the tune of (?) The House of The Rising Sun.  Its really an interesting arrangement. When I first heard this on their Christmas album a number of years I experienced a sort of cognitive dissonance not immediately being able to reconcile the words I was hearing with the tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SmthYxI5aA

I'd not heard of Athens Creek but they do a very nice version of House of the Rising Sun - Amazing Grace that is slightly different than The Blind Boys, I really like it - the lead singer has a set of pipes on her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6vMpbppUg

Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole's version of Take Me Home Country Roads while good, doesn't have the magic of his Somewhere Over the Rainbow.  Whereas the latter, when I first heard it, had me stopping in my tracks, the former, not so much.

Indeed. His Somewhere Over the Rainbow just chokes me up every time I hear it. Even more so, now that he'd passed away about three years ago.

Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole's version of Take Me Home Country Roads while good, doesn't have the magic of his Somewhere Over the Rainbow.  Whereas the latter, when I first heard it, had me stopping in my tracks, the former, not so much.

Indeed. His Somewhere Over the Rainbow just chokes me up every time I hear it. Even more so, now that he'd passed away about three years ago.

He passed in 1997 at age 38 - I find all of his music to be very beautiful.  


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlk_pd4fzD4

Indeed. His Somewhere Over the Rainbow just chokes me up every time I hear it. Even more so, now that he'd passed away about three years ago.

He passed in 1997 at age 38 - I find all of his music to be very beautiful.  

 And that is why I am not a Certified Public Accountant.

Indeed. His Somewhere Over the Rainbow just chokes me up every time I hear it. Even more so, now that he'd passed away about three years ago.

He passed in 1997 at age 38 - I find all of his music to be very beautiful.  

 And that is why I am not a Certified Public Accountant.

No worries. Time flies by so quickly that, honestly, it feels like 1997 was just 3 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-cbOl96RFM

Is anyone else glad that 'Christmas Music Season' is done?

Richard Wagner: Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I
Franz Welser-Möst/Cleveland Orchestra

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Flute Sonata in G minor, H.542.5 (orig. attrib. to J.S. Bach, BWV 1020)
Irena Grafenauer, flute; Maria Graf, harp; David Geringas, cello

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, Op.23
Maxim Shostakovich/London Symphony Orchestra; Alexei Sultanov, piano