Feb 142014
 

Claudine, you killer!

To celebrate Valentine’s Day—and truly, love is worth celebrating every day of the year—share your saddest duet with us, a romantic pairing not meant to last the test of time.

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  15 Responses to “Happy Valentine’s Day?”

  1. Doomed from the git-go. Sad because … well, you’ll see.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A

  2. The lovely Carlene Carter disses Robert Ellis Orrall — probably for Howie Esptein.

    http://youtu.be/3QN4kMv6i0I

  3. diskojoe

    My 1st instinct when I saw this was a song by Swamp Dogg called “Our Love Ain’t Worth Two Dead Flies”, but I couldn’t find it on YouTube, so this will have to suffice:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLBlmoQWgFQ

  4. cherguevara

    Ike and Tina – Too obvious?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP9NoivOcpI

  5. Buckingham-Nicks? — an excuse to take another look at the cover, too. “Frozen Love”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m94Xpx91w2E

  6. Nick Cave and Polly Jean Harvey were an item for a while, but before their heartwarming duet, let Nick and the Seeds set the tone with their ruthless version of Stagger Lee. How this ever made it on TV is beyond me:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVf2pP69tcc

  7. cherguevara

    Ok, dig a little deeper – here’s Gregson and Collister, “I know something that you don’t know.” I think I heard this as a stripped down version (that was better) on Mountain Stage years ago, I think other guests on the same program were Robyn Hitchcock, Billy Bragg and REM.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq8Ws943Eqs

  8. (Late entry here as I’m catching up after a holiday in Cuba)

    And how about the original Gregson & Collister, Richard & Linda Thompson? Lots of possibilities but I’ll settle for Dimming Of The Day.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6kjCd7QRbw

  9. Cuba? Did you have to leave from Canada or some other country? I look forward to a few choice details!

  10. No, it was a legitimate State Department approved cultural trip based around music so the passport is stamped.

    A place I’ve always wanted to go but didn’t figure I’d get the chance and then this opportunity presented itself. It was done by a woman who runs music based tours. My wife and I had our honeymoon on one of Nancy’s tours to England & Scotland back in 1987. That one was centered on Fairport Convention’s 20th anniversary and their annual festival in Cropredy (although we went on the 3 week version of the trip so there was lots more).

    In the intervening years what with one things and another (and one child and another) we haven’t been able to go on any of her other trips until now. This was the first (and likely last) time she has done a tour to Cuba.

    This one was unbelievable, blowing away all my expectations. Music everywhere you turn. All due apologies to BigSteve but there is so much music going on in Cuba all the time that it makes New Orleans seems quiet and dull.

    We got to visit the studio where the Buena Vista Social Club album was recorded and chat with some of the musicians who worked on the session. Then there was a concert with Sierra Maestra, a 30+ year old band playing traditional Cuban music. They were “asked” to be the Buena Vista Social Club but turned down the chance since they had steady jobs and steady incomes from their band; call them the Pete Bests (of their own accord) of Cuban music.

    Then there was a private show for the 25 people on the tour by a fellow named Carlos Varela and his band who had been described to me as the “Bob Dylan of Cuba” but I’d guess there are multiple people with that name. I’d liken him more to Springsteen. He’s a guy who normally plays to thousands and whom people wait for days to get tickets and to see him in someone’s backyard was incredible.

    The people of Cuba were fantastic, very friendly to us. The US embargo is crippling to Cuba. They have nothing there. But if the embargo were lifted all their problems would be solved just by being able to export rum, which was really spectacular!

    And the old cars are so freaking cool it’s unbelievable. I’m just old enough to remember most of them. About 3/4’s of the old US cars are heaps without working headlights or door handles or shocks and with 3 million miles them. But there are some that are in perfect condition – bright colors, tail fins, the best of 1940s & 1950s Detroit.

    I could go on and on but I’ll leave it there until implored by the masses.

  11. Very cool, Al! My wife and I have long wanted to go there. We always say we’re going as soon as the embargo is lifted (or maybe after the boys are grown up and we don’t have to worry so much about getting in some kind of trouble by sneaking over).

  12. BigSteve

    I’d like to go to Cuba, and not just to check on Al’s comparison to New Orleans. The great about going now would be that after the embargo is lifted I’d be able to say, “Yes I’ve been to Cuba, but before the embargo was lifted and everything got commercialized.”

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