Who Can I Turn To?

Subject: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Elmore
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 05:59 PM

When you're sick and tired of hearing about or thinking about Coronavirus, what music, what singer, gives you a little comfort a temporary respite from gloom and doom?

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 06:16 PM

Louis Armstrong
Louis Jordan
Louis Prima

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: G-Force
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 06:23 PM

Johann Sebastian Bach.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 06:25 PM

James Keelaghan is doing a Facebook live concert tonight at 8PM eastern time. Richard Thomson is doing one tomorrow afternoon (eastern time again). There are a LOT of live on-line music things.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Gurney
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 06:31 PM

Madeleine Peyroux
Sarah Brightman
Tom Lehrer
Flanders and Swann
Doris Day
100 others.....

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 06:57 PM

Tom Lehrer, Oscar Brand, Ed McCurdy

Jim Kweskin, John Hartford, anything Irish

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Gurney
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 07:07 PM

Someone just sent me to Youtube/Celtic Thunder's 'All God's Creatures Got a Place in the Choir' graphic video.
I challenge you not to smile!

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 03:06 AM

Frank Crumit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbw0uJkRrhE
especically dedicated for jeri

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: GUEST,Jerome Clark
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 03:25 AM

There is no doubt life as we know it is going to change and whereas the social isolation is necessary,
One thing that is sure to faulter is extra martial affairs. A two-minute stolen phone call or a few texts just won’t cut it for a lot of couples.
The thought of him self isolating with his wife and children for three weeks, enjoying sofa time watching movies and quality time will eventually cause more than a little bit of resentment and jealousy.

As for the bit on the side, well he knows her appetite and talents and ability to take revenge and make friends on social media so it is unlikely she will go without.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 04:25 AM

All of the above!
RtS

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: GUEST,Pseudonymous
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 09:24 AM

Any early Beatles.
La Bamba
Status Quo 'Rocking around the World'
Blues in general; the homeopathic effect?
King Oliver

and so much more

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 10:01 AM

Been listening to Gaucho lately- It's Been Awhile w/ Georgia English
Also, so much Madeliene Peyroux and, as always Bix Beiderbecke with Frankie Trumbauer and the Jean Goldkette orch. and Jellyroll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, the American Blind Blake, Jim Kweskin...

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 10:08 AM

Status Quo 'Rocking around the World'

all over ?

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 10:11 AM

Also on a French Impressionist jag, Ravel, Faure, Debussy since I've got plenty of time for daydreaming.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 10:27 AM

Beethoven, Beatles, Mozart, Bowie, Schumann, Beach Boys, Mendelssohn, Planxty, Ravel, Gershwin, Motown, Bernstein, Bothy Band, Manuel de Falla, Vaughan Williams, Carly Simon, some Brahms, Mamas and Papas, some Handel, Queen, not much Haydn, Shirley Collins, Bach, De Dannan, Nic Jones, anything else life-affirming. Early Liverpool Sound. Woody Guthrie. Blue Danube conducted by Carlos Kleiber.

No Wagner, no Berlioz, no Dylan, no Debussy, no Liszt, no Mahler, no Copland, no Chopin (my biggest blind spot), no minimalist shit.

Oh, and Beethoven. The only man greater than Shankly, and that includes God.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 10:42 AM

and Chopin's Barcarolle is particularly soothing and uplifting.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: GUEST,Pseudonymous
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 10:49 AM

tks for correction. Quo's Rocking All Over... is right, of course.

Disagree about Dylan. I requested Mr Tambourine Man for my funeral, having a yen for a trip upon a magic swirling ship and a dancing spell. That and Pali Gap off the posthumous Rainbow Bridge LP. NB Add Hendrix to the list, especially the early melodic stuff.

Add some of Kandinsky's work. Anything about colour. Other visual artists?

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 12:19 PM

Beethoven's Violin Romance No. 1 in G major (Op. 40) & No. 2 in F major (Op. 50) are the most exquisite short pieces to get lost in for a few minutes. Here with the inimitable Jascha Heifetz.

And I finally figured out how to pair my Bluetooth headphones to the new computer to listen to them at a proper volume. :)

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Stanron
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 12:35 PM

J S Bach Concerto for two violins in D minor

Thomas Tallis Spem in Alium

Anything else from the two above and anything by G F Handel

Vivaldi

Corelli

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 02:06 PM

Rude Boy Ska compilations

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Elmore
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 11:16 PM

Lots of classical music entries here. Makes sense. Vivaldi and Beethoven work for me. Hang on. Feb 25 2019 my wife passed away. For 25 years we found ourselves {musically} at odds. Then our local PBS television station ran a video of Leonard's 2008 London concert. She liked the band. I, who had been warned off Laughing Len for decades as depressing found his lyrics magical. Now I find his videos and recordings comforting.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 02:52 AM

Robert Llewellyn on Fully Charged & Red Dwarf (April 9th in UK, new series).
I just like his honest jokey delivery. And the concept of their YouTube channel of replacing replacing "burning" fuel, with electricity, particularly solar/geothermal (water, wind, wave & PV begin with the sun BTW).

Music - dance tunes, but I WANT TO BE DANCING!

Lyrics - Cole Porter & Tom Lerher

Reading - Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce & New Scientist,

TV - documentaries & spoof SF eg Red Dwarf, HHGTTG etc

WWW - Fakebook (for family) & Mudcat for the nicer folks of this parish

Quatrafoiling - they can't stop me looking! (& walking)

not forgetting the GF of course.

And lampooning our incumbent steersman (it's all we got folks) with a soupcon of circumspection that the alternative was ................ (I SHUDDER TO THINK)

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: rich-joy
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 03:41 AM

Most Definitely those British Ska/BlueBeat bros, Si & Tyber Cranstoun, known as The Dualers!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDwF7GfYvs

and esp. this version, busking with street dancers in Romford, 2010 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7FmuBy29Q0


I only came across them 6 months ago (thanks YouTube!!) and I could listen and watch this feel-good number (from c.2004), FOREVER!!!
[Sure makes me wish I could dance!!]

Cheers!
R-J
(Down Under)

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: GUEST,Pseudonymous
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 04:44 AM

The poetry of John Donne especially "Valediction Forbidding Mourning".

Buds on the trees, starlings nesting under the neighbour's eaves. Warm spring sun. My lovely neighbours.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: gillymor
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 09:23 AM

When I first saw this thread's title I thought "What are Anthony Newley fans doing on the Mudcat?" I'm sure some 'catters who might be interested in the subject matter here have overlooked this thread due to the title.

Some wise words from Jim Kweskin- Enjoy Yourself

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 11:34 AM

Damn. I forgot Tchaikovsky and Dvorak. But no Elgar, thanks. Or Saint-Saëns. I can live with Lili Boulanger. If only she'd lived.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 11:55 AM

rich-joy - this is my song of the week to keep my pecker up..

Top dancing in the kitchen music...


The Versatiles - Push It In [1969]


.. so what if the lyrics are dodgy by modern standards..
it's half a century old and still sheer joy to move to..

For all their faults, those old timey quaint charming British skinheads
had great taste in music...

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 03:20 PM

I put my folk favourites list on on Youtube...   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL68C9BA0536ECC4B3

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Helen
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 05:44 PM

In no particular order

Vivaldi especially Domine Deus, Rex Coelestis, RV 595, & Dixit Dominus, in D- 07
JS Bach, e.g. Concerto in G minor for 2 Cellos, Strings, and Continuo: II. Largo - there's a beautiful interpretation of this by Bobby McFerrin, & Thijs van Leer performing Erbarme Dich [from St. Matthew Passion],
The Pogues,
Louis Armstrong e.g. Lazy River, Muskrat Ramble, Black and Blue, - the list is endless
Almost all of Leftfield's tracks starting with Release the Pressure & Open Up collaboration with John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten on their first album Leftism in 1997, right up to the last track on their last album
Dawda Jobarteh,
Sileas, e.g. The Little Cascade
Derek Bell,
The Chieftains,
All of O'Carolan's music especially Michael O'Connor (aka Michael Ward) and Mrs Judge,
Lévon Minassian: I Am Dying in the Wind of My Plains,
Max Bruch: Adagio Appassionato for violin & orchestra, Op 57
Archie Roach
Fats Waller especially Twelfth Street Rag
Gnarls Barkley: Crazy

Ok, somebody stop me.

Did I mention Leftfield? :-D

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 07:45 PM

Damn. The Pogues. Anything by the bloody Pogues. Summer In Siam. Rainy Day in Soho. Sally Mac. Sickbed. Fiesta (bejaysus, I know the town of Almería so bloody well...). Misty Morning. Fairytale. Streams of Whiskey... Christ yes, the f***ing Pogues. How could I have forgotten! Rainy Day, desert island disc...

I recorded three Carolan tunes on the CD I made in 2004, Eleanor Plunkett, Lord Inchiquin and Bridget Cruise. I'm having me playing Eleanor Plunkett at me funeral. How's that for ego! I once played it with Pol Brennan of Clannad, whose recording I learned it from, in 1994 when he came to the Welly in Boscastle. A good moment was that!

After Corona supersaturation today, I've sought solace on YouTube in Mozart. I listened to Maurizio Pollini, an amazing humanitarian and great leftie, playing the C Major concerto K467 with the La Scala orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti. The very first classical concert I ever went to, at the RFH in the mid-70s, had Muti conducting Stravinsky (Fairy's Kiss), Chagall Windows by John McCabe and, after the interval, Beethoven 7. In those days I didn't "get" Stravinsky, but bejaysus I do now. Genius.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: rich-joy
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 08:33 PM

LoL, pfr!!
Can't help but move, eh (lack of dance abilities notwithstanding)!

Thanks!
R-J

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 05:21 AM

I find I'm drawn to the music when the world was hurtling into fascism last time round:

Bartok Sixth Quartet
Schoenberg Second Chamber Symphony
Hartmann Fourth Symphony
Martin Triple Concerto
Stravinsky Symphony of Three Movements
Vaughan Williams Fourth Symphony
Honegger Second Symphony
Weill Berlin Requiem

...and so on. There was a lot.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Hagman
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 05:27 AM

"To Whom Can I Turn?" surely? Let's not drop our standards, please.....

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Vic Smith
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 06:16 AM

Djalimady Tounkera & Jeanie Robertson
Alhaji Bai Konte & Davey Stewart
Amadu Bansang Jobarteh & Lizzie Higgins
Toumani Diabaté & Belle Stewart
Kasse Mady Diabaté & Betsy Whyte
Jali Sherrifo Conteh & Jane Turriff
Jalimusa Jawara & Stanley Robertson
Les Soeurs Diabaté & Sheila Stewart
Ali Farka Touré & Jimmy MacBeath
Salif Keita & Big Willie MacPhee
Ballaké Sissoko & Blin' Robin Hutchinson

I could go on for some considerable time.....

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 06:28 AM

Nowt wrong with "who can I turn to!" In fact, in m'humble the awkward "whom" is on its way out altogether. I'll give it forty years. And if you want to give me a belly-laugh, just type the word "whomever."

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: JHW
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 06:54 AM

I had same problem, a sideboard full of music but can't bring myself to listen. Last night did.
Janacek - Sinfonietta but couldn't cope with Taras Bulba I've previously liked. Played whole Brothers in Arms album. Started with Dave Goulder - January Man Album

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: G-Force
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 07:36 AM

My list is much like Steve Shaw's, except I have no problem with Mahler or Saint-Saens, nor pre-neck-break Dylan.

Add a few of my own to the list: Guy Clark, Tom Waits, Randy Newman, some of The Band ...

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 10:36 AM

I like the Sinfonietta played full blast, which, unfortunately, would annoy my neighbours, who live a quarter of a mile away. That's how loud I like it!

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Helen
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 04:23 PM

Vic Smith, I like the look of your list. I know some of the names but not all, e.g. I know of Ali Farka Touré, the Jobarteh surname since my discovery of Dawda Jobarteh, and Salif Keita.

I have a three CD set called Africa - Never Stand Still . I bought it some decades ago and used to play it over and over again. It has been sitting idle for a while but you have inspired me to brush off the dust and play it again.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 05:49 PM

I heard the Janacek Sinfonietta played by a Czech orchestra at the last Janacek festival in Brno, at the venue it was written for. I expected it to be shatteringly loud but it wasn't really - well played though. For a REALLY LOUD wind band experience I recommend Messiaen's "Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum" - builds to an absolutely overpowering finish. I heard it live in the SCO's rather small hall in Glasgow, the whole place vibrated.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Joe G
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 06:35 PM

John Tams is always a reassuring presence - as is Gareth Davies Jones who is doing occasional live streams of his songs. Sibelius, Vaughan Williams and, for a more edgy experience, Shostakovich would hit the spot. There's always Tchaikovsky to remind us how lucky we are not to have been as sad as he was.

For life affirming stuff it has to be Runrig, Skippinish, Tickled Pink, Korrontzi, Los D'Abajos and Warsaw Village Band

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Nick
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 07:51 PM

Steely Dan usually works for me

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 08:54 PM

I listened to Mozart's "Great" C minor Mass just now, the version on YouTube conducted by John Elliot-Gardiner. That'll do me...

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Elmore
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 01:29 AM

Wildflower Song by Lui Collins. Check it out on You Tube. Makes me feel better.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Mr Red
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 03:07 AM

"To Whom Can I Turn?" surely? Let's not drop our standards, please.....

wot? U suggestin' we should all be "Stay at Whom" - inglorious (sic - pun intended) self-isolation?

All a bit of a Who Ha if you ask me.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Vic Smith
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 09:37 AM

Returning to this thread after a few days and thanking Helen for her comments, could I suggest that she has a look at my favourite YouTube video of all time where she will able to listen to two of the Manding musicians mentioned in my list - both of whom I have had the great honour and pleasure of meeting. Ballaké is one of the musicians in that video and by coincidence, I visited the compound of the great kora maker Lamin Suso when I was in The Gambia last month and he was working on a new kora for Ballaké to replace the one so thoughtless destroyed by American Customs Officials when he was leaving the USA at the end of his recent North American tour.
I have also had the pleasure decades ago of getting to know all the Scots traveller singers on my list - sadly all are now dead. In fact looking through the list, 6 of them have stayed in our house.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: peteglasgow
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 10:27 AM

yola performs etta james classic 'at last'   this youtube film is 15 minutes of yola with the band Birds of Chicago and Awna Teixeira. we've seen these guys a few times over the years, they used to be Po' Girl - didn't realise that they all live in the same house. anyway they have recorded 3 songs for us from there and it's just great - beautiful, joyful music and people. i imagine it as the brightest, noisiest house there is these days, surrounded by all the rest of us - isolated and frightened.

i'm starting the day with this to give me hope and then moving onto 8 hours of forest birdsong and plenty of Joni. you could say i'm sort of nesting for now - and trying to get off the machines and avoid the news as much as i can. might wander downstairs for a beer a curry and some van morrison maybe. nothing too challenging

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Neil D
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 11:37 AM

Helen, good of you to recommend Archie Roach. "Took the Children Away
" is one of the most beautiful songs ever. Are you Australian? I am not, but I did spend much of yesterday listening to Gurrumul (Geoffrey Yunupingu) and The Saltwater Band.
Vic, love the video. I notice you recommended Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté each in collaboration with others, so I'm sure you know of their work together. I'm listening to "In the Heart of the Moon" as I type.
I've been listening to a lot of Fela Kuti lately. The 1969 L A Sessions album, of course featuring the great Tony Allen on drums, is especially invigorating. It feels like I'm hearing an important genre as it's being invented. You can still sometimes hear the Highlife, the Jazz, the R&B but at its best you hear the perfect blend that would exemplify Afrobeat in the 70's and beyond.

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 12:24 PM

An uplifting Welsh music video from 2019,
when we could all go to the shops any time we liked, any way we liked...

6 mins long with a fake end title card in the middle.. don't miss the second half...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq3oyVE-AG4

Subject: RE: Who Can I Turn To?
From: Helen
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 02:21 PM

Workingtonman, I assume this is the correct link:

Yola Performs Etta James Classic 'At Last'

Vic Smith. All right. Totally jealous!! :-D You have met these people? Yeah!!!

You may have missed the thread I started in Feb 2020:

Review: Dawda Jobarteh - serendipitous discovery

Neil D, yes I'm an Aussie. Archie Roach and the late and beautiful Ruby Hunter. Took the Children Away is a classic. I bought Archie Roach's 25th year anniversary re-release of that CD Charcoal Lane. I already had the original CD form 25 years before but I couldn't help myself. A second CD in the anniversary release has other recording artists performing his songs.

One of my favourite of Archie Roach's songs is I've Lied. Beautiful, sad, understated, clever. It fits the classification I use to refer to music which seems basic but is so cleverly composed and performed that it is deep and complex and classic: "deceptively simple".

I can't find a video link for Archie Roach singing I've Lied but here is Marlon Williams & Leah Flanagan