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Crooked Still – The Golden Vanity Lyrics

9 years ago

Oops. A unique pleasing sound. The vocalist has a pleasing tone to my ear and the harmonies are also beautiful. The bass lines are just perfect and make the song perfect. I first heard this song on a Saturday morning folk show driving at 7am. It is rare that I have to pull the car over to the side of the road to listen. But I did and I was so happy to discover this GREAT recording. So beautifully pleasing to my ear. Very inspiring.

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Crooked Still – The Golden Vanity Lyrics	9 years ago
The way this song is recorded with banjo as the primary instrument is so creative and well done. The lack of rhythm guitar keeping a 4/4 beat also creates a inique pleasing

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Marty Robbins – Big Iron Lyrics

10 years ago

Of all the story songs there are, this one ranks as one of the best. What great lyrics! One of my favorite lines in this song is when he totally describes the gun fight by saying "There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play. And the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today." In a million years, I couldn't have come up with something so perfect, so simple, so descriptive, so cool...They are still talking about the Ranger....He uses three main characters in the song...THe Ranger, Texas Red and the townspeople...They are such a part of this song...ANd they are still talking about it today. I think this is one of the best crafted songs EVER!

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The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody Lyrics

10 years ago

I was at the grocery store last week and this song came on when I was in the cereal aisle. Three people went by with their carts, singing this song. I stopped what I was doing and for the first time in my life, ( I am 55), I listened to this song....wow...I came home and started looking up information about it..The Righteous Brothers recorded it in the 60's not the 50's like I thought...and it ranked pretty well but was not a monster hit...The melody, and the chords of the bridge are really pleasing to the ear. The vocalist nails it. I looked it up on You Tube and there is Elvis, during his comeback tour, sitting at the piano, the last song of the evening, singing this song, and walking off the stage. He knew the song was a great one. And it is. For me it was a very pleasing discovery of something I had always overlooked. The grocery store sound system was a good one, and I am so glad I had this experience.

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Glen Campbell – Gentle On My Mind Lyrics

10 years ago

@[pixelperfekt:4932] I think of hartford as the poet. He is painting a picture. The meaning is up to us, the listeners. I think he creates different scenes...scenes where he is moving and traveling, and the same feelings, the same strong feelings about this person he loves is following him...haunting him perhaps....She is occupying his mind and is running counter to the distance and movement of his travels...he moves...and she is a constant...he is away and she is home....he is unable to get away from it...It is a painting of the inner thoughts and feelings of a rambler, who has found that he can't get away from a call to love...So he is encountering love, and it is changing him...WE don't know what he will do with it. But it is that point for the rambler to have to deal with a call, or a missing....But he doesn't say that directly...He paints beautiful pictures of it, using poetry and this one song is a fine example of what song writing, combined with melody can do. Campbell's voice is just beautiful, and Hartfords folk roots, and instrumentation with the banjo made it a really big hit...It crossed over to country, pop, and rock at the time. I remember my sister playing the song on her folk guitar when she was 17, and my older aunt Franny asking her to play it and sing it again and again.

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