The SUBSIM Music Thread

[Jimbuna]

[vienna]

Most people know Sam & Dave as the guys who recorded Soul Man or Hold on I'm Coming, but they were more than just soul music 'pop' stars; they were genuine talents who had a power as a duo few other acts have ever reached. The real pity of it all is the fact they really hated each other's guts and it led to the dissolution of one of the finest musical partnerships ever seen:






Backed by Booker T & The MG's, Mr. Otis Redding:





Something I'm throwing in because I stumbled across on it YouTube and it made me smile:






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[Commander Wallace]

[Jimbuna]

[Mr Quatro]

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[fumo30]

Canned Heat - Mercury Blues




Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train

[vienna]

@Mr Quatro

Ben E. King - Stand By Me...

Always good to hear a great classic...


@fumo30

Canned Heat - Mercury Blues / Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train

Both great recordings and both performances by great artists. I first heard of Sister Rosetta from my first ex, who is a big folk music fan...

I had been tempted in the past few weeks to post something about Canned Heat, who are a much underrated band. In particular, I wanted to focus on one particular member of Canned Heat, Al "Blind Owl" Wilson. A lot of people don't know it was Al who actually sang the lead vocal on a few of Heat's best known hits, not Bob Hite. Al was a multi-instrumentalist who was known for being a perfectionist. He was highly intelligent and well versed in the history and techniques of the Blues. He was also very troubled and rumored to be autistic, to some degree, and possibly bi-polar. He was a genius on the slide guitar and admired by many other guitarists in the Blues and folk scenes. Al tried to commit suicide a couple of times and, unfortunately, died in a suspect drug overdose, suspect because many feel the death was not an accident, but the culmination of Al's desire to commit suicide. Al became the second member of the infamous "27 Club" of musicians who died at age 27; his death was over shadowed by the deaths of Hendrix and Joplin in the weeks following Wilson's demise...

Canned Heat recorded an album in 1970 with one of their idols, John Lee Hooker entitled Hooker And Heat; here is Al playing harp with The Hook:





Here is Al singing a Canned Heat classic:





Speaking of slide guitar geniuses, I found this while surfing around YouTube; I can't believe I never heard of this guitarist before; to say her playing is stunning is an understatement. It is well worth the effort to look up her videos. Here is the amazing Joanna Connor:






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[fumo30]

@vienna

Once again, very good!

...About stunning Joanna Connor. She must've been born with that guitar!
I wonder why the music industry haven't pick her up? She should be known everywhere.

[Jimbuna]

[Havan_IronOak]

After countless hours in-game I developed a playlist of songs of the WWII period. Some are earlier but would be easily found on radio of the day. Some were big new hits in the 40's It makes the game seem just that much more immersive.

Though I generally listen to a playlist that I've developed on my Windows Media Player, most of the songs are available on you-tube as well. Here's a link to the you-tube version of the list.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...5Zok_1hQZu5YoE

[Eichhörnchen]

That's a nice list, buddy

[Jimbuna]

[vienna]

Here is another great guitarist a lot of people might not have heard: Junior Brown. He's been around a long time and is known mainly in Country & Western circles, but he doesn't get the same recognition a lot of the bigger names draw; his style is decidedly retro-Western, not like the more 'pop-ish' Country music now in vogue, and he's doesn't fit into the younger image Country has been putting forward. I've been following his recordings for a couple of decades now since I saw him perform live on a TV show. He is also known as the creator of the Guit-Steel, a hybrid of a regular 6-string guitar and a steel guiltar...

Here he is singing his song about something quite few of us have complained about in other threads:





(BTW, the lady playing the acoustic is his wife...)...

Another demonstration of his skill:







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[Mr Quatro]

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Havan_IronOak

After countless hours in-game I developed a playlist of songs of the WWII period. Some are earlier but would be easily found on radio of the day. Some were big new hits in the 40's It makes the game seem just that much more immersive.

Though I generally listen to a playlist that I've developed on my Windows Media Player, most of the songs are available on you-tube as well. Here's a link to the you-tube version of the list.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...5Zok_1hQZu5YoE

Great list of music as Eichhörnchen has already said. Thanks for posting.@ Vienna Junior Brown was an accomplished guitarist who didn't receive the credit he deserved.


Eric Johnson performing an original Simon and Garfunkel song.