Michelle Gurevich is a Canadian musician, who first tried her luck as a filmmaker, but later turned to music, a field in which she found it was easier to succeed. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants from Leningrad, her first language is Russian. Her father is an engineer and her mother was a ballerina in the Maliinski ballet. Her songs have a special atmosphere, I really just like them. Here are two of them, one a kind of tongue-in-cheek comment on being a woman, the other one on the first six months of love. Great stuff (the videos, too).
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Thursday, December 1, 2022
1000 SONGS - DAY 379 Song #412
THREE WAYS TO DO A SONG
Saturday, December 11, 2021
1000 SONGS - DAY 378 Song #411
A fine version of a fine song: Gene Clark, Carla Olson & Joe South
Among the little amount of vinyls I own, "So Rebellious a Lover", a collection of songs done by Carla Olson and Gene Clark (of Byrds fame) is one of my favourite ones. Nicely arranged great duets of wonderful songs. This here came to my mind today when washing the dishes. It was written by Joe South who first recorded it and also did the arrangements - I have to say, the first job - writing it - was very well done, the third one - arranging it, could've been done better.
In my opinion, the Clark/Olson version is the very best ever recorded (I do not know all the versions), so it is featured here first in line. Followed by Joe South's original recording and the ones by Bobby Bear and Glen Campbell.
The latter is my favourite one next to Clark/Olson, as it just breaks it down to its core (Booby Bear also does a great job), whilst Joe South ruined his beautiful song by using those unnecessary string arrangements and the like. I guess, Carla and Gene worked their version out with the Glen Campbell rendering of the song in mind.
Monday, December 6, 2021
1000 SONGS - DAY 377 Song #410
Day 377: You Need Love
"You Need Love" is a song by Willie Dixon, covered by Muddy Waters. Later on the Small Faces from England based their song "You Need Loving" (on their debut album in 1966) on that Dixon/Waters song. Finally, Led Zeppelin had a big hit with "Whole Lotta Love". Just one song, ever so slightly differently rendered. This seems to be the way that Rock Music works....
Thursday, August 22, 2019
1000 SONGS - DAY 376 Song #409
Day 376: A Pour Man With a Heart Full of Love
I miss Lee Hazlewood and the little songs he sings.
Monday, March 11, 2019
1000 SONGS - DAY 375 SONGS #408
Monday, December 24, 2018
1000 SONGS - DAY 374 SONGS #407
This song is like a scene from a movie. When listening to it I remember similar scenes in a car in the night somewhere between lower Austria and Styria. We do not know, why the girl cried, what the conversation on the telephone was about or from where those people drove away when heading "home". Something happened that led to the scene described. Most of us will have been in a situation like this one. And Fred has put it into words, simple, trenchant, and poignant:
I turned on my dims, somebody flashed me their brights
And I reached over and turned the radio way down low
Your sister cried all the way home
Lightening crashed, and the road shone like a mirror
A dog come out of the ditch, then he just disappeared
And I remembered a conversation we once had on the phone
Your sister cried all the way home
I'll never know how you got into such a mess
Why do the bridesmaids all have to wear the same dress?
Everybody said you looked real good
But I think that you just looked stoned
Your sister cried all the way home
As far as I understand, one of the Ginn sisters that are featured here, Tif Ginn, is his partner in life.
And it is Kori Heppner on drums - I really like her drumming.
Friday, October 5, 2018
1000 SONGS - DAY 373 SONGS #404 - 406
And here are the three songs mentioned above:
Thursday, September 27, 2018
1000 SONGS - DAY 372 SONG #403
And here is the song: