Favorite music/song

I love music! During college I went to at least one or two concerts a month and still dabble on the guitar now and again.

And I have weird music tastes, though I think the internet (especially Spotify) has made it possible for a lot more Niche music to become more mainstreamed or at least reach a wider audience.

A couple of my favorites though that I can listen to any time:

Sweet Carolina by Ryan Adams (though I like 75-80% of everything Ryan Adams has released and he is prolific in the amount of material he has).

Country Roads by John Denver

-SBRed

Nibbler – Nice choice.

I love lots of music. Three years ago I began taking piano lessons. I am not musically talented, but I am learning and I love it.

Presently my favorite song is “The Water is Wide” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFgCGQVqiko” class=”bbcode_url”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFgCGQVqiko

Yesterday though the words to Abide with Me, Tis Eventide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R62p3IYwSxo” class=”bbcode_url”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R62p3IYwSxo

Presently I am learning to play Rachmaninoff “Theme of Paginini”

I don’t know where to start, so here’s some flute and piano from today’s walk down Youtube Memory Lane:

Claude Bolling – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N6ulsmp8gY

And this is a tune I hope goes into the next hymnal:

Allison Krauss – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub56L5AYyEM

(I love the audience singing along, easier to hear them as the song goes on…..)

Editing to add:

Eva Cassidy’s Wonderful World – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPAGH0AT-os&list=PLONLmE9k7n1P1aTq40uNB7e_bx06zxLKO&index=6

Better stop now before I really date myself by adding some of the Smothers Brothers and Tom Lehrer I just watched.

Music reaches deeply within my soul, and it seems for many of you also.

Favorite religious piece: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Mack Wilberg arrangement with organ accompaniment

Favorite hymn: #197 O Saviour Thou Who Wearest a Crown

Favorite classical piece: Passacaglia and Fugue by Bach

Favorite pop song: Bad Romance by Lady Gaga

Favorite country song: I’ve Got Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks

Cannibal Corpse?

Sure… but you might want to refrain from posting some of their their song titles.

I like stuff in nearly every genre… though I’m still reaching to develop an appreciation of new country. I was an ABCer for the longest time (anything but country) but I’m coming around on some stuff. I’ve got nothing against people that really like country music, my FC cured me of that.

This is a bit morbid, but I would like my family to play this song at my funeral as what I believe to be one of the most beautiful songs on earth. With pictures of my life in a slide show. It’s written by Pat Metheny, and don’t worry about the language, or the slow start. I feel emotion almost every time I listen to it. It’s called Dream of the Return.

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I’m also a jazz musician. 6 years ago, at about the time of my faith crisis, I decided to shake things up a bit, and launched a part-time business as the business motor (impressario) of a suite of music groups. After a few splutters and starts, I’ve performed about 110 times alongside musicians with jazz and music performance degrees, most of it in the last 4 years, without any formal jazz training. Something that has brought me great joy as I’ve devoted less time to church service and more time to my healthy passions. It’s allowed me to fulfil dreams I thought I would only have time to do in retirement — if I even made it there.

I like Claude Bolling as someone mentioned above, but listen to a lot of jazz, and lately Herb Albert’s music,which appears to have been forgotten.

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And lately, I’ve started trying to learn to appreciate Latin music…music I can play in the various groups I started:

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If you are interested, I will send you a link to my music production venture so you can see some of the things we’ve done over the last 5-6 years….if not, no biggy. This is a local venture, so it’s not a sales pitch..

As you can see, music is very important to me. I am now ideating on a CD called Alternating Heads that takes the chord progressions to standard jazz tunes, but uses my own melodies (melodies are called heads, among jazz musicians)…another idea to put on my bucket list.

One thing — not a fan of live music involving singers. I have backed them up before, and I find they tend to see instrumental musicians as disposable. I prefer instrumental music, or music that involves groups with multi-part harmony….where no one singer dominates the musical landscape.

Here is one example of religious music I love — a hymn you might recognize — another one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard in the last 30 years.

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Danny Boy – played on the bagpipes, especially. Vocal Point did I a version where the final verse is haunting and powerful. (It starts at 3:08 of the official video on YouTube. I can’t link it from my phone.)

I love vocal instrumentation. Pentagon is and Home Free are amazing.