"WEAVE ME THE SUNSHINE
OUT OF THE FALLING RAIN"
PETER YARROW, 1938-2025
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Peter Yarrow had one highly unusual distinction. All Music's pick for the best Peter Paul and Mary album wasn't a PP&M record at all. It was Yarrow's "Peter" solo album. It is like Groucho Marx winning three Emmys for the best comedy show when he was actually hosting a game show. The world has lost a wonderful silky voice, a fine songwriter, and a long-time political-activist musician. I compile various artist collections for me, family, and friends to enjoy; and several tracks from the "Peter" album are in play right now. I'll just end by adapting one of those songs.
Goodbye Peter
Goodbye old friend
Your strings are silent
The music ends.....
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MUIREANN BRADLEY
"I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY"
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Muireann Bradley - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams cover) [Official Visualiser]
Muireann Bradley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Qh_0TzPefg0
Muireann Bradley's folk blues album, "I Kept These Old Blues,"
https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/i-kept-these-old-blues
was an acoustic music sensation. As I understand it, she learned to play the blues from her father's records. Here she shows some more range. Elvis Presley said this is the saddest song he ever heard but it seems to me you'll be happy to hear Muireann Bradley sing "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry."
[Note: For some reason it is necessary right now to add the hashtag, #musicfeed, for your music posts to go out to the Music Feed.]
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DAVID MALLETT
"VITAL SIGNS"
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Evidently "Vital Signs" is the David Mallett fan favorite. It starts strongly with "Midnight Madness" and ends with "Highways," which, according to an apparently knowing Amazon customer comment, was often a very big number in concerts. Side One's "April" and the title track are spoken of favorably by Mallett's followers. The first side ends with one of Mallett's best known songs, "Red Red Rose," which was covered to perfection by Emmylou Harris. It is surprising how many covers and interpretations of David Mallett songs closely follow the original arrangements. This may be seen as a testimonial to the production.
"Vital Signs" is notable for the team effort - from piano to drums - of the players, with each contributing catchy riffs.
"Vital Signs" is something like David Mallett's forbidden fruit album. It has never been reissued; and, as far as I am aware, it does not stream. (Some re-recordings do.) A track that once was posted to YouTube has been removed. Evidently the label, Flying Fish Records, made a mistake on the cover which is mirrored on the LPs label, crediting all words and music to Mallett. Judging by the publisher credits, the first song on the second side, "(Coming Apart) At the Seams," appears to be an exception. Evidently pianist Chris Neville claims a co-writer credit. The album got locked up by a lawsuit. Vinyl LPs and at least one cassette can be had online and, one would imagine, in used record stores.
Following popular concert attractions "Good Times" and "These Times," the album ends with Mallett's re-recording of "Highways," which first came out on the live "Hard Light" album. Mallett's singing here on "Highways" is so different that it ought to be considered as a rearrangement.
Jim Rooney did his usual excellent job with this production. David Mallett's home, Sebec, Maine, shares a town line with my old hometown, Milo. For me, then, it is more than a little ironic that Jim Rooney got his start performing on Boston's WCOP Hayloft Jamboree for Nelson Bragg, "The Merry Mayor of Milo, Maine."
A clean burn of the vinyl LP keeps me happily listening. Anyone who has read this far may want to hunt up a copy of the vinyl album. If you are a devoted singer-songwriter fan, chances are good that you have a friend who has burned it. A reissue would have been ideal but ways still exist to enjoy what may very well have been David Mallett's most popular record release, "Vital Signs."
Here are two of the best covers of David Mallett songs:
Summer Of My Dreams
Kathy Mattea - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzFUG4zQWGU
Red Red Rose
EmmyLouharris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmL0QSPJhTo
And one by David Mallett:
David Mallet - Summer Of My Dreams
from Live At The Iron Horse Vol. 1 by Signature Sounds Recording Inc.
https://signaturesounds.bandcamp.com/track/summer-of-my-dreams
Music Museum of New England (MMone) Jim Rooney article
https://www.mmone.org/jim-rooney/
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𝐍𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐚
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