Wednesday 23 February 2011

SUGARBABES. LADIES SING THE BLUES. Bonnie Raitt & Norah Jones~Tennessee Waltz

9 comments:

the noblest prospect said...

A lock-in here too, some nights, Mr Smith.

Our Bonnie can fairly play.

call me ishmael said...

Well, I like bonnie Raitt but I can never figure out how one as young as Jones can know so much - of country, jazz, blues and rock, be so agedly adroit, virtuoso and yet so youthfully populist; sometimes, it just ain't fair.

call me ishmael said...

I think she could even sing flawless harmony with mr bob dylan, the most wilfully tuneless, meanderingly discordant, unpredictable and miserably selfish vocalist in the history of midget, spokesperson of a generation showbusiness. Mr mongoose, though, I am sure, will have an opinion on this.

the noblest prospect said...

Indeed, Mr Smith.

Miss Jones, among others, seems to have it all. The French have one such, Mlle Gardot. The late lamented Lhasa de Sela another.

Each, their talent and beauty a chiaroscuro with Ruin's dark shadows.

mongoose said...

Nora is sensational, Mr I, and should stay the fuck away from Bob. No books upon that shelf.

Another new St Joni has turned up BTW.

the noblest prospect said...

Hadn't noticed this similarity until your post Mr M.

Mr Smith won't permit such talk here, I'm sure.

call me ishmael said...

Christ, that's fucking awful, no sweet nightingale, she, more like the lovechild of Suzanne Vega and Rufus Wainwright. You shouldn't come around here, mr mongoose, singing up at people like that. If you see her, don't say hello.

mongoose said...

She was in the paper the other day, Mr I, so it must be true. That one, BTW, is the best of her I could find. there is much, much worse than that.

I believe that she also yodels.

mongoose said...

In fact, try it again. It is raw but there is talent in that wee girl. We're gonna have to get you trained, Mr I.