Blackberry smoke is right up there with all the great southern rock bands.
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Just found this live version, it goes real hard. Wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Dixie Dave has swallowed a few mics doing his career. The drummer, Travis, is a beast!
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I heard one of Sade’s songs yesterday and forgot my love of much of the music and realized the one thing that drew me to the band was the bass…
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Funnily enough, Sade didn’t do much for me in the 80s. Sure, her music was cool and she was good looking too. But it lacked emotion somehow.
Fast forward a 100 years: the “Lover’s Live” concert on DVD. She aged really well and is as beautiful as can be. She has lived, obviously…
But even better: her voice, her whole personality got a soul that I missed when she was younger.
My favourite video clip from that concert:
Bonus: watch and listen to the guitar player ath the end!
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So, Julia Hofer (of Thomann fame) came out with a record of her own. Not sure what the style exactly is, but I kinda dig it:
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That’s quite the cadenza there at the end… she almost missed the super high notes… real people, real musicians, real music 
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Yeah… the super high note. I always stumble over that.
I just thought for about 30 minutes about a technical solution to remove that!
For me it is the one imperfection that keeps me from marrying her ^^
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I am sure that breaks her heart 
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Yeah! Better I don’t tell her…
@Billn - it’s magic, not horniness!
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100% with ya @Whying_Dutchman ! 100% I’ve always been attracted to the deeper voice of some singers…Sade, Holly Cole and Diana Krall…don’t know what it is but I appreciate it.
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Oh nice, I definitely dig it! Was she quoting Chris Isaak “Wicked Game” starting around 1:43?
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Been getting into “the warning” 3 sister band that rocks hard from Mexico , check them out.
Really good 
Cheers Brian
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One of my favourite voices: Lisa Hannigan. Unfortunately she doesn’t find her original voice on her solo albums, but this song is great!
(Best to get the original CD or unvompressed FLAC … and good headphones for this)
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Sorry… not familiar with that song or bass line 
Wow! Not my sort of music but there’s no ignoring the energy on that wee stage. The guitarist seems to be at a different gig to the other two, who are rockin’ like it’s the end of days - especially the skin-beater!
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I wonder how much is her change, and how much is yours. I haven’t listened to her for decades, but back in the day she did plenty for me, in terms of ‘setting a mood’ - if you know what I mean. Teenage Pete was very grateful to her.
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I absolutely know what you mean - I have used it for that occasions too 
Don’t get me wrong: I found the music good back then, here voice too, the mood, the production, everything…
And still I found it too cool, too perfect, too over-produced in a way. So, in this way it didn’t do much for me … it was lacking “soul”…
Of course I have changed, but that doesn’t man that I can or cannot appreciate the sound of the 80s in a smilar way now.
Just have a look at the original video:
And then rewatch the live video. See what I mean?
In the 80s video she just sings the words. In the later clip she has lived what she is singing about.
PS I had something similar with Amy Whinehouse. Didn’t get her.
And then I saw the documentary “Amy” and especially this scene:
This was the raw Amy Whinehouse that was hidden under all her over-produced songs.
Now I really love Amy Whinehouse and try to ignore all the stuff they did to her songs in the final mix.
In wish she had lived to make an unplugged album…
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Yeah, I love when there’s energy on stage. I feed on that, just like they feed on the crowd’s energy. Stoner/sludge is a genre you either like or don’t.
This clip always has me in stitches when I look at the drummer. He’s so stoned, flying somewhere in a different universe than the rest. Then he wakes up at around 2:13. Keeps that pocket tight though!
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Yeah, so the section of Julia’s song from about 1:43 through about 2:00 or so just totally gives me vibes of the guitar melody:
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