On a deserted island with?

Subject: On a deserted island with?
From: Clipper
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 10:40 PM

So you're lost at sea...you wash up on shore after bobbing in the Atlantic clinging to a 2 x 4 piece of driftwood for 4 days. You crawl onto an uncharted desert isle (sorry Gilligan). You know you're here for a long,long,time. The sun burns the seawater in your eyes. You look up as you collapse onto the burning sand and you see a blurred figure of a musician(s) standing before you. "My god" you cry out with your last bit of strength, "I can't believe my good fortune. If i'm to be stuck here for years, at least I can listen to you play 7 days a week"...So who would it be? Dylan? Charles? Stevie Ray? Chopin? Cohen? The key here is who would you not get completely bored with after a week or so and then have this artist or group turn your experience into a "groundhog day hell" for many years after. Can you think of someone who's songwriting repetoire and skills would have the depth and talent to stand the test of time...your time?

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Janie
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:03 PM

Joni Mitchell or Stevie Wonder.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Beer
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:07 PM

John Prine.
Dylan would be first for his writing but his singing after a month day in day out would drive me nuts. However, you forgot to mention the opposite sex!! I would gladly spend a few months listening to Emmylou Harris, Lacy J. Dalton and even Shaina.

There are certainly others but maybe later.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:11 PM

The Dixi Chicks

Barry

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Beer
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:20 PM

Dolly Parton
"Yes"

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Gulliver
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:31 PM

Marilyn Monroe

Don

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: theleveller
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:20 AM

The Royal Airforce Air-Sea Rescue Squad band.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:31 AM

Girls Aloud

One for each working day and the other 2 days to recover and listen to their music.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: skarpi
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:40 AM

Björk ofcourse , who else ?

becouse she is her self to be .....................


ATB Skarpi

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:48 AM

Tom Waits, he could build things.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Bernard Quenby
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:57 AM

Any quality guitar maker (so long as he had the materials!)

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 04:29 AM

Pete Seeger. But about 40 years ago maybe.
Robyn

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Folkiedave
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 04:41 AM

Cherish the Ladies

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Marje
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 05:03 AM

Thank you, leveller, you've given me my first laugh-out-loud of the day!

Me, I'd have John Kirkpatrick.

Marje

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: LindsayInWales
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 05:08 AM

George Butterworth please...

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Clipper
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 05:38 AM

I'm surprised no-one thought of The Shmenge Brothers..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DkqyMKfDbE

Polka gets such a bad rap.....

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Jeanie
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:01 AM

Without a doubt: Stephen Sondheim (plus piano, of course). I would never tire of singing along and dancing, and I'm sure he'd be very interesting and entertaining company to talk to, too.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:04 AM

Kirsty Young. No competition.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:16 AM

Dolly Parton. Just love that voice.
Failing that, Jordan.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:34 AM

Kate Rusby...she could sing 'You Belong to Me' and we could...'See the sunrise from a tropic isle' (In Yorkshire accent of course).
Don't think it would be music all the time though!

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: greg stephens
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:46 AM

The Bangles

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: GUEST, Sminky
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:48 AM

Liberace.

After eating him I would make a nifty sailing boat out of his piano.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: theleveller
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 07:36 AM

"Dolly Parton.
Failing that, Jordan."

Is that some kind of life jacket - like an updated Mae West?

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 07:47 AM

Pre-xactly!
If one fails, you blow up the other.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Silver Slug
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:02 AM

Girls RLewd - a half day with each one and then 4.5 days to recover from having to list to their music!

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Silver Slug
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:08 AM

Not to mention listening to them whilst I'm listing, presumably to port!

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:11 AM

>>"Dolly Parton.
Failing that, Jordan."

Is that some kind of life jacket - like an updated Mae West? <<


It was in actual fact George making a big boob of things

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:31 AM

Les, you misunderstand me.
OK then, Madonna.
You know, the one with whatchamacallit.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: bankley
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:33 AM

Gilligan

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:42 AM

June Tabor or Mozart...or both

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:59 AM

Yes George, always getting to the point :-)

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:04 AM

the Wilson Family.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: pdq
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:08 AM

Mike Auldridge...

eventually he would have to give me Dobro lessons.

Lessons for fish?

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Banjiman
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:08 AM

The Mrs

Should I pass out the vomit bags for you now....I know it is a bit of a nauseating response! ......but I do hear her sing most days now and I can certainly stand a few more years of it.

Paul

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: topical tom
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:12 AM

Eric Bogle and Dolly Parton.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:55 AM

"Eric Bogle and Dolly Parton"

I don't think I could handle the ensuing ménage á trois...


(Oh, sod it, one of the accents the wrong bloody way round again...why can't these foreigners speak English...)

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 11:02 AM

Alan Rickman. I don't care if he doesn't write songs, he can sing and I can always write songs for both of us....

That's if I'm not allowed my husband, of course. (added in haste)

Anne

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 11:19 AM

hmmm...the most recent encounter with someone whose music I could appreciate for years was with Danny Spooner....as long as we're out of earshot of you lot with Dolly Parton.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 01:37 PM

Probably Sam Hinton, a local folk hero of some magnitude who has recently removed to a retirement home. Sam, who I had the pleasure of meeting and swapping songs with in the home of mutual friends years ago, was a treasure of song and story and a wonderfully broad based conversationalist on subjects from literature to oceanography. I first saw him perform at the old Ash Grove, in Los Angeles, in the very early 1960's, along with Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and a new singer making her debut, Jackie DeShannon.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 02:46 PM

K. D. Lang

If I ever move from the UK I'm off to Canada. They have some talent there and they are so sensible too!

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 02:51 PM

Mary Smith ! Then we really COULD rehearse !

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:47 PM

...and play some music, too! ☺

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Clipper
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 09:44 PM

Elvis....just think, he could sing Hound Dog to you daily, forcing you to spend countless sleepless nights trying to figure out what he means when he sings "you ain't never caught a rabbit, and you ain't no friend of mine". Can someone enlighten me here?

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:54 PM

Marta Sebestyen.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Beer
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 11:18 PM

Loved Elvis. Learned to Jive because of his music. But now that I'm older I would prefer to have someone that wrote their music. To my knowledge Elvis didn't write but interpreted songs that others did. Big Mamma Thorton wrote Hound Dog as an example. Give me someone that can write,sing and arrange music. Like the following.

David Massengill
John Prine
Ray Materick
Guy Clarke
Tom Russell
Iris Dement
Ron Hynes
Bruce Murdock
Gordon Lightfoot
Dolores Keane
Tom Waits
Jerry Jeff Walker
Tom Paxton
Arlo and his Father
Just to name a few.Great thread by the way. Keep it up.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 18 Apr 08 - 01:43 AM

Silly Sisters

I'd need to keep more than my ears alive, if I were to be stuck on an island with another for any amount of time


I'd have to keep my eyes delighted too.

Any other needs I'd keep to myself about

Barry

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: Zhenya
Date: 18 Apr 08 - 02:24 AM

Bruce Molsky - He's a one-man music festival!

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 18 Apr 08 - 06:07 AM

Toss up between Vladimir Vysotsky and Eliza Carthy.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: kendall
Date: 18 Apr 08 - 07:50 AM

My oldest best friend, Gordon Bok. We have known each other for 49 years and I never tire of his writing and singing.
Plus, the two of us could probably build a boat.

Subject: RE: On a deserted island with?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 18 Apr 08 - 08:03 AM

Kendall Morse - particularly if he brought Gordon with him!