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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/6/2022: Dark Early [1]
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Date: 2022-12-06
On Thursday, it will be 42 years that John Lennon’s been gone, longer than he was here. I almost wrote that diary, but then I luckily realized I had written it two years ago. So you don’t have to listen to a whole Lennon thing, but I am putting Elton John’s Empty Garden here; this is the official music video. [5:00]
George Winston’s Thanksgiving isn’t seriously dark; maybe a little melancholy. It’s the time of year for it, though. This performance seems to be from a tour of Korea in 2006, but since every YouTube in which he’s wearing that outfit* has its entire description in Korean, I have no more detail. *That’s my last resort for identifying a performance when all else fails — look through YouTube for other videos of the performer playing in the same place, dressed the same, and find one that gives more information than the original one. [5:15]
This is a good live performance of Joni Mitchell’s Urge for Going, which pretty much wraps up this time of year. It’s from a 1966 episode of the Canadian music TV show Let’s Sing Out. I assume the guys onstage with her are the other folksingers performing that night; I like their faces while she’s singing, as if they’ve never heard anything like that before. (By way of preserving the mood, I have cued this up after the cheerful gang-sung theme song; if you want to hear that, just drag it back.) [3:41 from where I’ve started it]
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While we’re lamenting the fleeing year: Rufus Wainwright pays tribute to Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention at the BBC Folk Awards in 2016, with her song Who Knows Where the Time Goes? [5:35]
Meanwhile, back in the 60s, Phil Ochs sings Changes on the show Come, Read to Me a Poem, on New York’s WNYE-TV, then literally an educational station, operated by the NYC Board of Ed to show content in classrooms. At this date, April 12, 1967, it had been operating for a week. It was “a rare apolitical appearance” for Ochs, except inasmuch as it was in support of public education, which we now see is not apolitical at all. [3:06]
In this 1987 official video, The Bangles cover Paul Simon’s seasonally-appropriate Hazy Shade of Winter. [2:46]
There sure was a lot of folk music on TV in the 60s! I can’t identify this 1966 show, on which Simon and Garfunkel perform I Am a Rock, but the song involves a deep and dark December, so here we are. [2:59]
What the heck, let’s stick with Paul Simon till we run out (this is it). When he used to sing The Boxer in New York City shows, the “New York City winters” would always get a huge cheer from the crowd, and so did the “whores on Seventh Avenue”. That unseemly cheer is not heard here, as the song is performed in the Library of Congress when Simon won 2007’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, and Jerry Douglas are the main performers, but I note approvingly the presence of Mark Stewart, Simon’s long-time musical director, on mandolin. [5:51]
Okay, last 60s folk group TV appearance, I swear. It just seemed like, lyrically, California Dreamin’ had to be in here. This is The Mamas & The Papas making their TV debut in January, 1966 on The Hollywood Palace. [2:37]
For our friend side pocket, and also for the people of Ukraine, here’s Mark Knopfler performing Brothers in Arms, from his 1996 live concert video A Night In London. [8:27]
If you only watch one thing tonight (and you like Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb in the first place): this has been up for six years, but it has more infringing going on than a hippie’s buckskin vest and who knows how long it’ll stay around. It’s a fan edit, and a very well done one, combining two performances by the dueling former Floyds. The verses are sung by David Bowie, at a 2006 appearance with David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall, while the bridge is sung by Eddie Vedder, appearing with Roger Waters in 2012 at a Hurricane Sandy relief benefit in Madison Square Garden, New York. The combination is quite a tour de force. [8:16]
Brian May has been recording and touring with vocalist Kerry Ellis for nearly ten years now. This looks to be an audience video of the encore at a small and informal venue; it’s undated. Kansas’ Dust in the Wind is from May and Ellis’s first album, Acoustic by Candlelight. Ordinarily, the song can be a bit bleak, but Dr. May kindly explains that the dust we are is stardust , and that sounds much better. (Note that his PhD thesis was A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, so he knows a thing or two about dust.) [6:39]
In 2013, Dougie Maclean received a lifetime achievement award at the BBC Folk Awards, at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. Here, he closes the show with his poignant Caledonia, joined by apparently every other artist present (names are catalogued on the YouTube page). (Lyrics) [5:32]
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