Who would you like to hear sing in duet?

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: Young Buchan
Date: 22 Jul 11 - 10:09 AM

Jeannie Robertson and Lizzie Higgins.
Not that I think either's style was particularly suited to duets, but because I think the performance would be unique: I believe that Lizzie (certainly in public) would never sing whilst her mother was alive.

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: Young Buchan
Date: 22 Jul 11 - 10:16 AM

OK. If we're being silly - Fred Jordan and Katie Price.

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Jul 11 - 12:00 PM

Cisco Houston and Stan Rogers.

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: Vic Smith
Date: 22 Jul 11 - 02:27 PM

Young Buchan wrote:-
"Jeannie Robertson and Lizzie Higgins.
Not that I think either's style was particularly suited to duets, but because I think the performance would be unique: I believe that Lizzie (certainly in public) would never sing whilst her mother was alive."


Way off beam, Young Buchan, I saw them singing together on quite a few occasions at different events..... Let's think.... at the National folk festival when it was at Keele (more than one year), at a number of concerts in Edinburgh (usually organised by Hamish Henderson), at the Blairgowrie TMSA Festival (more than one year), at a concert in Aberdeen and privately at both their houses in Aberdeen,

Mind you, the rivalry between them was a wonder to behold as were their rows. I remember sitting with them at a Sunday morning breakfast at Keele and the air was full of electric sparks! Yet when you spoke to them individually out of the hearing of the other, mother and daughter would praise one another to the nines.

And as for singing as a duet. I can certainly remember them singing Three Times Around Went Oor Gallant, Gallant Ship but memory won't bring back whether this was a recording or whether I am recalling them singing together live.

They both made such a huge impression on me that I can recall what they looked like and sounded like in my head quite easily, although it was decades ago now.

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: michaelr
Date: 22 Jul 11 - 06:28 PM

Iris Dement and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Not that it would be pretty to listen to, but I've always felt that their whines would complement each other perfectly.

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Jul 11 - 10:15 PM

Greg Brown and Iris DeMent. They are married to each other, but as far as I know, never perform together.

How about Paul Simon and Edie Brickell? Ditto.

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 11 - 03:13 PM

Lonnie Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Bunk Johnson, George Johnson, Earl Johnson, Bob Johnson as 'The Johnson Brothers' ...to add to Vic's list.

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: GUEST,Doc John
Date: 23 Jul 11 - 03:13 PM

sorry Johnson was from me

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: Vic Smith
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 09:08 AM

Are you sure that it is not Doc Johnson and that should be in the recording with the rest of them?

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: Neil D
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 11:44 PM

Inna Zhelannaya and Albert Kuvezin

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 11:50 PM

My two favourite female voices Judith Durham and Anita Carter. Ain't gonna happen this side of the clouds since Anita is gone but I dream........

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 12:03 AM

And this one is no fantasy:
Anita Carter & Hank Williams

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: Sailor Ron
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 11:56 AM

Bernard Wrigley & Catherine Jenkins doing the "Indian Love Call".

Subject: RE: Who would you like to hear sing in duet?
From: GUEST,Azoic
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 12:10 PM

Tom Waits and June Tabor -"Brother,Can You Spare A Dime ?"