He sounds kind of like Tracy Chapman.

...simply...yeah

*quality


Singer reminds me of a cross between Tracy Chapman and Joan Jett.

>> ^Stormsinger:
I'm sorry, that's -way- too smooth and peppy a voice for the blues. I'll take Tracy Chapman instead.

To each his own. They can both sing at my birthday party.

I'm sorry, that's -way- too smooth and peppy a voice for the blues. I'll take Tracy Chapman instead.

I think my music tastes are just thoroughly engrained via my parents. Both my mommom and daddad were into rock plenty - not to mention just about anything else. Of the ones that really stuck with me were such folks as Janis Joplin, Tracy Chapman from one side, Pink Floyd, David Bowie on the other with the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and others shared between.

Now I'll listen to anything that sounds good to me, really, shunning following groups and simply cherry picking pieces of music I like.

Your video, Tracy Chapman - "Fast Car", has made it into your personal Highest Rated Videos listing. Congratulations on a job well done. For you contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

great tune. very surprised it wasn't already here.

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yup. michie tossed up a great live cut, that you just watched as well, but the official video was yet to be. nice catch.

Yeah, I'm an idiot. Had it confused with the recent death of Bo Diddley.

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Might want to change your description...B.B. King is notdead.
~Doc

http://www.videosift.com/video/Tracy-Chapman-Across-the-Lines-Live

Me, too
In reply to this comment by Shaytana:
Tracy Chapman is still my favorite singer from all time! Upvote!

Tracy Chapman is still my favorite singer from all time! Upvote!

88 = *80s
I like Tracy Chapman, great songwriter and an interesting voice and sound.

"Billie Holiday, also known as "Lady Day" is probably one of the best known female jazz vocalists. She reigned during the 1940's performing with such greats as Louis Armstrong. Holiday is best known for her love songs which she innovated into the jazz world.

What a lot of people do not know about Billie Holiday, was that she used her music to speak out against social injustice and raise consciousness. Holiday was openly communist and when she was only twenty four years old, poet Lewis Allen reluctantly offered his song "Strange Fruit" for Holiday to record. The song provided vivid imagery about the horrors of the lynching of Southern Blacks at a time when racism was very prevalent.

When Holiday first sang the song "she could not comprehend the metamorphic presentations of anything other than women in love or spurned by lovers", (Davis. p185). This quote may make Holiday sound ignorant, but at the time the idea of a woman, especially a Black woman, making an anti racist statement was almost unheard of. Holiday soon embraced the song.

Lady Day had said that the lyrics reminded her of her own father's death (Clarence Holiday had inhaled poisonous gases after serving his country in World War I and was left to die in a hospital after being neglected by racist doctors). "Strange Fruit" ignited a spark that made Holiday want to speak out against the racism that killed her father (Davis, 1998).

Because feminism incorporates the fight against racism, I believe that Billie Holiday was a feminist before her time. "Strange Fruit" was sung by Holiday at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and not long after women had received the right to vote. The rights of African Americans and an awareness of their culture was just beginning to take shape. Women's rights were also still in the making. Holiday, who was mainly known for her love songs, boldly stepped out of a stereotyped mold and sang a song that stood defined the injustices performed against her people.

She took a poem and transformed it into a protest song, which she never sang the same twice. Compared to Black female vocalists of today, like Erykah Badu and Tracy Chapman who have mostly social and political songs, one protest song may not seem like much, but "Strange Fruit" became Billie Holiday's signature song. She took the song and personally made it her own."

- http://www.newpaltz.edu/wmnstudies/3women/billie.html

How could you not love this?

1) B.B. King playing (how does he make it sound like that?)
2) B.B. King singing
3) Tracy Chapman singing (and she doesn't get overshadowed by B.B. King)

I would think that for any artist it must be the high point of a career when you do something like this. I mean, when you're doing a duet with B.B. King, you have to be thinking, "yup, I guess I really am a musician now".