“Oh, Transman! You have the best taste in music! Simply impeccable!” Another happy listener. image
Two for tea and tea for two … here’s some songs just for you (and you):
Loretta Lynn and Jack White. God, Transman loves Loretta! Jack is pretty damn cool, too. Put them together and it’s a flannel and organza festorgasm.
Ray Charles and Willie Nelson. One of the great duets before Willie started doing them with anyone who would give him $3. Ray’s vocals are totally full of passion in this version.
Sinead O’Connor and Shane MacGowan. Sinead’s voice is angelic and fragile and good ol’ Shane sounds like a train wrecking. If you like this, Shane & Nick Cave are worth checking out.
Tom Waits and Loretta’s little sister, Crystal Gayle, make a surprisingly good pair. Her honeyed vocals are a wonderful contrast to his rasp.
Elvis Costello and Chet Baker. Okay, not strictly a vocal duet, but a lovely version of “You Don’t Know What Love Is.”
Go forth … enjoy the weekend.
July 20th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Love the Elvis/Chet duet.
July 20th, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Elvis’ father was a jazz musician and he definitely inherited the ear for the phrasing.
July 20th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
I didn’t know that about Elvis’ father. That totally makes sense. His phrasing on stuff like his Almost Blue album was perfect.
July 21st, 2012 at 8:07 am
The whole Loretta Lynn/Jack White album is amazing. One of my all time favorites!
July 21st, 2012 at 8:36 am
Great choices. One of my favourite duets is The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl doing “Fairytale of New York”. Totally Un-Christmassy but I play it almost constantly around that time, of course only when I can get to the Zune before Allan has another round of every single album Dylan ever recorded plus all the bootlegs he didn’t know he was recording…
Have a great weekend!
July 21st, 2012 at 8:56 am
That’s one of the best songs ever written. You and Allan would have been in heaven when the Pogues opened for Bob Dylan in 1989.
For fun, you can read James Fearnley’s blog about the 2005-2006 tour while Allan listens to yet another Dylan album.
http://www.pogues.com/Print/blogmahone.html
July 23rd, 2012 at 5:34 am
How did you know he would be doing that?!!
July 21st, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Loretta Lynn and Jack White singing about my home town with pictures of my fair city thrown in to boot? I may have to go change my pants, I’m so excited.
July 21st, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Loved the Elvis Costello and Chet Baker duet; wow!
July 21st, 2012 at 3:37 pm
There are some other clips from that show floating around, including a song with Van Morrison on vocals.
July 24th, 2012 at 10:40 am
Thanks for this. Love these! Especially love the Ray/Willie and Sinead/Shane tracks.
July 25th, 2012 at 6:44 am
There are a few clips floating around of Ray and Willie from a TV special they did and it shows them rehearsing. It looks like they had a lot of fun.