What Are You Listening To?

[trinacriabob]

Just heard this in a store ...

... with some people I knew, the lyrics that turned into our own joke were "a little bit of Sandra in the sun."  Except that we didn't like this person.

[trinacriabob]

I was thinking about Bonnie, whose face seems to tell a lot of stories, in a Nashville sort of way.  I thought she was from within 250 miles from Nashville.

Heck no.  She was born in Burbank, CA ... L.A.'s San Fernando Valley!  She ended up going to high school in the Hudson River Valley, north of NYC, and started out at Radcliffe (Harvard).  It doesn't look like she finished.  But, for those who bolted from the Harvards and Stanfords to pursue a vision and it worked out, more power to them.  It usually doesn't turn out that way for the others and that's why we don't hear about them.

I'm not a huge fan of Bonnie Raitt, as her stuff has too much twang in it.  However, this is her best song, in my opinion, and I listen to it from time to time.

See, I had her figured out incorrectly.  Chalk one up for our boldest member who, more so than anyone here, had issues with my stereotyping.  Go live in big cities and/or travel, and you'll be stereotyping in no time.

[G. David Felt]

An amazing singer from Australia. She even continued to perform when she was pregnant with her first kid. Love this song.

 

 

56 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

I was thinking about Bonnie, whose face seems to tell a lot of stories, in a Nashville sort of way.  I thought she was from within 250 miles from Nashville.

Heck no.  She was born in Burbank, CA ... L.A.'s San Fernando Valley!  She ended up going to high school in the Hudson River Valley, north of NYC, and started out at Radcliffe (Harvard).  It doesn't look like she finished.  But, for those who bolted from the Harvards and Stanfords to pursue a vision and it worked out, more power to them.  It usually doesn't turn out that way for the others and that's why we don't hear about them.

I'm not a huge fan of Bonnie Raitt, as her stuff has too much twang in it.  However, this is her best song, in my opinion, and I listen to it from time to time.

See, I had her figured out incorrectly.  Chalk one up for our boldest member who, more so than anyone here, had issues with my stereotyping.  Go live in big cities and/or travel, and you'll be stereotyping in no time.

You say she has a strong southern Twang, I just do not hear it, but listened to a few other songs. Not stuff I would normally listen too, but I still do not hear the southern twang in her voice, more of a mixed NYC voice imho.

[trinacriabob]

 

52 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

You say she has a strong southern Twang, I just do not hear it, but listened to a few other songs. Not stuff I would normally listen too, but I still do not hear the southern twang in her voice, more of a mixed NYC voice imho.

I think it's her blues-y vibe.  That stuff tends to reign in the southeastern quadrant of the U.S.

[Robert Hall]

5 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

 

I think it's her blues-y vibe.  That stuff tends to reign in the southeastern quadrant of the U.S.

I remember reading she lived in Austin, Tx for a while in the 70s, knew Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was an up and coming guitarist in the local music scene there...a lot of great blues musicians came out of Texas. 

Edited Thursday at 08:23 PM by Robert Hall

[trinacriabob]

14 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

I remember reading she lived in Austin, Tx for a while in the 70s, knew Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was an up and coming guitarist in the local music scene there...a lot of great blues musicians came out of Texas. 

Yes, I could see her in Austin.

I guess that place has always been mecca for creative types ... sort of like a low cost, inland, flagship university town version of Berkeley.

But it's not low cost anymore.  Either way, I've never been a fan of it.  I went to look at it as one of the places I'd apply for grad school and left running, not walking.  I felt no fit whatsoever with the school and the location. Just kidding, but ...

[Robert Hall]

2 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

Yes, I could see her in Austin.

I guess that place has always been mecca for creative types ... sort of like a low cost, inland, flagship university town version of Berkeley.

But it's not low cost anymore.  Either way, I've never been a fan of it.  Went to look at as one of the places I'd apply for grad school and left running, not walking.  Just kidding, but ...

I've never been to Austin..but heard good things about the food and music scene there.  About the only place in Texas I've spent a few days in is Plano, and that's been for work.  So much sprawl around the DFW area.  I had an interview and job offer in Addison 25 years ago, but decided to move to Denver instead (was living in Colorado Springs at the time). 

[trinacriabob]

1 minute ago, Robert Hall said:

I've never been to Austin..but heard good things about the food and music scene there.  About the only place in Texas I've spent a few days in is Plano, and that's been for work.  So much sprawl around the DFW area.  I had an interview and job offer in Addison 25 years ago, but decided to move to Denver instead (was living in Colorado Springs at the time). 

Much better choice.  Texans themselves like moving to Colorado more than the other way around from what I can glean from reading and talking to people.

[G. David Felt]

5 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

Yes, I could see her in Austin.

I guess that place has always been mecca for creative types ... sort of like a low cost, inland, flagship university town version of Berkeley.

But it's not low cost anymore.  Either way, I've never been a fan of it.  I went to look at it as one of the places I'd apply for grad school and left running, not walking.  I felt no fit whatsoever with the school and the location. Just kidding, but ...

Totally understand your sentiment. As one who is tied to a major computer company there, I find it a weird fakeness of we are liberal to your face, conservative back stabber once you turn around.

[Robert Hall]

5 hours ago, G. David Felt said:

Totally understand your sentiment. As one who is tied to a major computer company there, I find it a weird fakeness of we are liberal to your face, conservative back stabber once you turn around.

As one employed by a growing Texas fintech (albeit w/ mostly California Silicon Valley C-level management), I'm a bit conflicted by the Texas aspect of my employer...but I do like my core Ohio group of the company (my department is mostly an Ohio and Colorado team that was acquired by the Texas company 3 years ago) and really don't interact much w/ the Texas teams.