The River, Where She Sleeps: Darryl Purpose
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April 13, 2015 at 12:01 pm
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April 13, 2015 at 4:32 pm
Another nice song ruined by adding too much violins. Well, probably just my opinion. It would be great to have a program which can disassemble a song and you can adjust the volume of each instrument/voice track. Sax and violins sells 😉
April 13, 2015 at 6:33 pm
Birgit,
I didn’t hear that but I’m not surprised you did. You have an ear. Lord only knows what you call mine or my lack thereof!
April 14, 2015 at 4:04 pm
The violins didn’t bother me, but now that they’ve been mentioned, it probably would have been better with just a single fiddle for punctuation. That said, it could have been a lot worse.
April 14, 2015 at 4:12 pm
im6,
I didn’t notice them either but I did once I read this comment. I figure just abut any piece of music can be worse!
April 14, 2015 at 5:16 pm
im6, I agree, one fiddle would be nice, I just don’t like sound mash.
Btw, meanwhile I’ve heard McMurtry’s Where’s Johnny. Not the studio version but a 1991 solo concert from Austin. Great sad song.
April 15, 2015 at 1:16 pm
Throughout the song, I kept thinking, this sounds just like a Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer song, which makes sense, since it is. For those who objected to the violins in this version, may I suggest the original?
April 15, 2015 at 1:43 pm
sprite,
I listened again and heard the same sound you did. I do miss those two.
Perfect suggestion!
April 15, 2015 at 2:01 pm
I’d never heard of Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer and couldn’t find a clip of “The River…” by them, so I listened to some of their stuff on YouTube. And then I went to Wikipedia to find out more (Kat’s comment, “I miss those two,” was intriguing. Wow! What a sad story. Here’s the link for anyone else who might be interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Carter
April 15, 2015 at 2:09 pm
im6,
I was a fan of their music since the first time I heard it. I have played it here but not in a long while. I have also played Tracy’s solo songs. They are good, but I miss Dave.
It is sad.
April 15, 2015 at 6:44 pm
im6,
Dave & Tracy were stalwarts of the U.S. folk festival scene in the late ’90s and early ’00s. If your search earlier didn’t lead you to “The Mountain,” it’s a really beautiful song. The studio cut is nice, but hearing it live (or, these days, a recorded copy of a live version) causes frissons of insight into exactly how big a gift he possessed and how big a hole he left when he died. “Verdant Mile” is Tracy’s response in song to his loss.