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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 9/12/2023: The Odd Tune [1]

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Date: 2023-09-12

Theodor Severin Kittelsen: September (1890)

Good evening, Kibitzers!

I was happy to see nomandates reporting on Sunday that she got some good soaking rain on Saturday, although more is certainly needed to get that area out of its drought.

Meanwhile, I am squinting suspiciously at Hurricane Lee, whose warning cones keep twitching around. I notice that Cape Cod is, as I write on Monday, in the tropical-storm-force-wind cone, albeit at the 5-10% chance level. Much can still happen before the end of the week when it would be expected this far north. I’m hoping that “much” pushes it to the east.

Tuesday morning : You guys, this is getting kind of interesting, in the sense of that curse “May you live in interesting times”.

This muddy little wind map is the best I could do, because the only place I could find the “arrival time of winds” overlaid with the “wind speed probabilities” was at the side of their whole text discourse, so I had to crop it out. You can maybe make out how the yellow part of that Disaster Rainbow is edging a little too close to Bill in Portland Maine and basically everyone in Maine and eastern Massachusetts as well. Do not like! However, the National Weather Service emphasizes that it is TOO SOON to know how this storm will impact the northeastern US. Okay, this has been the Alarmist Old Sicilian Lady Forecast for Tuesday, brought to you by My Mom and My Grandma!

A lot of times, I end up with a diary full of famous songs being performed live in a concert hall by whoever made them famous. So these songs are, in some way, not quite that.

(I plan to drive to New Jersey to get my mail shortly after I finish these edits. I should get there in plenty of time to host this diary, but just in case I don’t show up, it’s probably because I got hung up somewhere in that process.)

Playing for Change: Doctor My Eyes (September 2023).

❧ There’s nothing all that unusual about a Playing for Change arrangement; this one is new and I really liked it. Featuring Jackson Browne, and legendary Asylum Records session players Leland Sklar on bass and Russ Kunkel on percussion. The vocalist who does the second verse and makes us wish there were more verses is Chavonne Stewart. [4:09]

Rastrelli Cello Quartet: Things We Said Today (Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 2018)

❧ This arrangement, by quartet members Drabkin and Kraftzoff, is jazzier than it might first appear. Quartet: Kira Kraftzoff, Kirill Timofeev, Misha Degtjareff, Sergio Drabkin. [2:40]

Bonnie Raitt: Burning Down The House (December 2010)

❧ This recording’s been around for a while, but Bonnie Raitt covering Talking Heads is still a little out of the ordinary. [3:43]

Unnamed Chinese bluegrass ensemble: Jambalaya (Hong Kong, November 2021)

❧ These young bluegrass players give their location as Hong Kong, and don’t offer a band name; the channel belongs to the banjo player and apparent artistic director, Eric Shi. He comments, “This is first time I try the Erhu to instead of fiddle in the bluegrass band.” Featuring Betsy Chen, guitar and vocals; Leon Wong, bass; Eric Shi, banjo; Jing Ding, erhu. [3:38]

Merry Clayton: Gimme Shelter (Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, CA, 2009)

❧ Merry Clayton is the now-iconic backup singer on the Rolling Stones recording; they cold-called her in the middle of the night in 1969 to come over NOW, and she showed up in curlers and a mink coat and famously nailed the track in a couple of takes. She was 20 years old. Here, she demonstrates that, artistically, the Stones needed her more than she needed them. Her backup singers are the Waters family, also giants of the backup-singing world. [3:56]

Béla Fleck: Rhapsody in Blue (Wolf Trap, August 23, 2023)

❧ This is quite a new video, in which banjo genius Béla Fleck cold-opens his set by playing, solo, all of George Gershwin's concerto-style piece for piano and jazz band. (Fleck is American; he’s named after composer Béla Bartók.) [9:38]

Congress for Jewish Culture: Kum tsu mir (New York, August 2021)

❧ I was surprised to see that this Yiddish adaptation of Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw is not a recent Jimmy Buffett tribute. The Congress for Jewish Culture is a 501(c)(3) that supports contemporary Yiddish literature and arts. Featuring Sasha Lurje, vocals; Craig Judelman, fiddle; Lorin Sklamberg, guitar and vocals. Yiddish lyrics on the YT page.

This one’s for jakedog, obviously! [2:46]

Roger Daltrey with The Chieftains and Sinéad O'Connor: Baba O'Reilly (Carnegie Hall, February 1994)

❧ This performance is part of a two-night concert called A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, a fundraiser for Columbia Presbyterian Babies Hospital, featuring Daltrey and a long roster of guests. Tickets were the fastest sellout in the history of Carnegie Hall. With Michael Kamen and the Juilliard Orchestra. [8:12]

Yo-Yo Ma: J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Live in the Great Smoky Mountains, September 2023)

❧ The only unusual thing about this famous cello piece is that Yo-Yo Ma performs it (in the very recent past) at the edge of a small stream in the Smokies, apparently completely alone save for the drone that circles him shooting the video. His profits from this performance go to EarthPercent, which describes itself as “a charity providing a simple way for the music industry to support the most impactful organisations addressing the climate emergency.” You can purchase the recording via Yo-Yo Ma’s page here. [15:11]

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