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| From | kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: What The F***/Martha W. |
| Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2005 07:43:43 -0700 (PDT) |
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I vote poster kids too.
And Gene, I always had this notion I would like Martha
solo - her backing vocals are a good deal of why I
like many rufus songs (April Fool, Evil Angel) and she
has that Berlin-during-the-war-nightclub voice by way
of folky parents that I find, well, enchanting. When
she opened for Rufus a few shows back in Chicago
(before this whole BenFolds/Rufus ensemble cast
erupted, which I must point out that Mike Bennett
actually predicted as the modern Billy Joel/Elton
John) I was quite on the edge of my seat wondering
what her voice would do next - it swoops, it purrs, it
growls, it soars, it croons, it shakes like its own
rhythm accompaniment, it crooks its finger at you from
the dark side of the bar, and it is brutally, brutally
honest. Sounds like Martha's got some bad lovin'
behind her. 'Sokay for us: bad lovin = good singin.
For a really, really odd look into the families
McGarrigle/Wainwright, check out the Kate and Anna
rekkid "The McGarrigle Hour," which has a little of
everyone on there (including a very overwrought piece
of work by Rufus, early on in his melodrama), and also
has Louden Wainwright showing up to the house for the
first time in years, and if memory serves, Emmy Lou
Harris. What I would not have given to be a fly on
the wall at that recording, yeesh!
cheers,
--kelly
np: Bowie, Low
--- Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@ameritech.net> wrote:
> Which brings up a compelling point -- which song
> called "If You See Kay" was better -- April Wine's
> or
> Poster Children's? The Poster Children get my vote.
>
> Mike Bennett
arma non servant modum
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