Ragged Company in a good mix of songs: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/str...it/id498941899
Listen to the whole album here: http://airplaydirect.com/music/JanivaMagness/
Ragged Company in a good mix of songs: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/str...it/id498941899
Listen to the whole album here: http://airplaydirect.com/music/JanivaMagness/
Last edited by Scandinavian; 03-13-2012 at 02:58 PM.
Nice find .. I like Janiva's laid back take on Ragged Company.
I've liked her work for quite a while, but don't follow her career closely, and didn't know about this new album .. so Thank You x 2 !
BTW ... You might want to add your post to the covers thread too ... http://www.gracepotter.com/forums/sh...-of-GPN-Covers
Last edited by toofarnorth; 03-13-2012 at 04:27 PM.
"Songs take a message directly to your heart. When you can't speak for yourself, sometimes a song can say something in three minutes that you've been trying to say all your life."
- Solomon Burke -
Wow - quite a voice! She did "ragged" justice!
Do artists have to pay to cover a tune and sell the CD?
thanks for the ear-opening link!
Originally Posted by Scandinavian
Ragged Company in a good mix of songs: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/str...it/id498941899
Listen to the whole album here: http://airplaydirect.com/music/JanivaMagness/
Tek-"live simply so others can simply live"
It is a great honour to be covered by this highly acclaimed blues singer. Janiva is a bigger name in Europe than GPN - for now - and a lot of people here will hear this tune for the first time from this album.
Interesting and moving to read about her life and career: http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture...sing-the-blues
Impressiv that a song written by a young vermonter can be interpretted in such a meaningfull way by an experienced and troubled big city woman in her mid-fifthies.
Some interesting videos related to the album here: http://www.youtube.com/user/JanivaMa...?feature=watch Great video performance of "I won't cry". I can easily imagine this song performed by GPN.
Last edited by Scandinavian; 03-14-2012 at 05:57 AM.
Excellence! Thanks for sharing this, what a talented lady.
"gonna need your help, thats right Atlanta give me your very best soul clap. We gonna get all Freaknic up in this sh$t" Grace 2-26-11
Very impressive - this really speaks to Grace's abilities as a songwriter. Can't wait for the next batch.
Anseo
From Janiva Magness
WOW this is really cool for me. I LOVE Grace and all she does..."If I was from Paris....!!!"
It's not about you ... It's not about me ... It's about Us!
Is this a quote, Tipi, or a supposition?
Anseo
Her post on my face book page after sending y'alls comments ... I went to HS with her drummer ;*)
It's not about you ... It's not about me ... It's about Us!
That's really cool, Tipi.
I read a fine piece about her hard path and thought about posting it here, but I'm all about living in the present and presume she is too. "What comes is better than what came before."
So this instead:
NPR: Janiva Magness on Mountain Stage (listen)
Anseo
She's Stronger For It! 8*)
It's not about you ... It's not about me ... It's about Us!
Never heard of this lady, but this take on Grace's old soul lyrics compliments her experienced voice. I am taken with this voice and story. Thanks so much for bringing another beautiful artist into my collection. I never hear anyone that I think can sing a GPN song, but...
Very cool, indeed!
I'm happy to see that the album has received very good reviews in the blues press. Ragged Company is hardly the standout track on the album, but here are two nice quotes:
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are a rock band with jazz and blues influences, and their “Ragged Company” is a highlight in the hands of Magness and her band here. With only simple guitar chords and a quiet shaker for percussion, Magness hugs the microphone and gets to the heart of the loneliness in the song before climbing higher and higher along a gospel-drenched melody to see if she can find an answer.
http://blues.about.com/od/JanivaMagn...or-It-2012.htm
Waitsfield, Vermont native Grace Potter wrote the bitter and despondent tune Ragged Company convincingly covered by Ms. Magness. Over producer Dave Darling’s lone electric rhythm guitar, Janiva cries out... ...A beautiful heartbreaking tune any way you cut it.
http://www.seveneightfive.com/events...rty-uncle-bos/
A couple more youtube recommendations:
Janiva sings Tom Waits' Make it rain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSd8ZT2hGSE
The whole Kink radio session from last year is mesmerizing - imho:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kinkradi...Janiva+Magness
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