Artists we've lost and still mourn....

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Sorry to keep badgering you tonight... but jeeze!! We've lost so many... sorry. Not sorry.



Tom Waitts song, done to perfection!!!
 
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Dr. John. Mrs. Cougar and I both read Rickie Lee Jones' book Last Chance Texaco recently. What a life she had -- ran away from home, homeless, hooked up with just about any guy handy until they kicked her out, lol. She got to know a lot of folks in the business, really loved Tom Waits, and finally made it big. She was really kind of a jazz singer. When we were at Birdland in Manhattan seeing John Pizzarelli, we were stunned to see that Rickie Lee had played there a few weeks earlier! She's old now, of course, and her voice is not what it once was. She did hook up with Dr. John at some point, and they put out this great video.....

 
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None?

Some of that is just a personality quirk that some people describe as "lack of empathy". But some of that may also be growing up with classical music. There the emphasis is on the composer and the performer is secondary.

It could also be a a tin ear rooted in ignorance. For the most part many artists do not have a distinct voice or style for me. Blaspheme, but I could not listen to a drum track of a new to me song and tell whether it was Keith Moon, John Bonham or someone else. Play a bass line by "John" to a song I don't know and I'm only guessing if I say Entwhistle instead of (John Paul) Jones.

To the extent that I have an emotional connection, it tends to be to a particular lineup of a band and if I mourn anything it is the break up of the band or lineup.
 
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I "miss" many artists, many who have already been mentioned. I particularly miss whatever music they might have created had they lived longer. But I don't "mourn" them. Their life or "legacy" lives on in their music, and it's really only through their music that I know them at all.

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fronobulax said:
None?

Some of that is just a personality quirk that some people describe as "lack of empathy". But some of that may also be growing up with classical music. There the emphasis is on the composer and the performer is secondary.

It could also be a a tin ear rooted in ignorance. For the most part many artists do not have a distinct voice or style for me. Blaspheme, but I could not listen to a drum track of a new to me song and tell whether it was Keith Moon, John Bonham or someone else. Play a bass line by "John" to a song I don't know and I'm only guessing if I say Entwhistle instead of (John Paul) Jones.

To the extent that I have an emotional connection, it tends to be to a particular lineup of a band and if I mourn anything it is the break up of the band or lineup.
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So that's cool. You don't have anyone to recommend.... and that's okay!!
 
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