Music Monday: Evert Taube Nocturne Played by Bengt Andreasson

I think this is absolutely beautiful.

Evert Taube; was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He is widely regarded as one of Sweden’s most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th century.Wikipedia

Music Monday: Robert Downey Jr and Sting, Driven to Tears

It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned RDJ. (sigh) I’d forgotten he could sing. Holy cow. This is a great video.

And for those who remember, this isn’t the first time RDJ has sung with Sting. Remember Alley McBeal? Be still me heart!

 

 

Music Monday: Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 8, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America’s Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. (Source: Wikipedia)

 

Music Monday: “Sweet Home Chicago” (2012)

Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman, Jeff Beck and Beth Hart – “Sweet Home Chicago” (2012)

Music Monday: Tracy Chapman and Eric Clapton Give Me One Reason

Music Monday: John Denver, Rocky Mountain High

I loved this man’s music growing up. John Denver died in a plane crash in 1997, he is missed.

Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was anAmerican singer, songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success was as a solo singer, starting in the 1970s. Throughout his life, Denver recorded and released approximately 300 songs, about 200 of which he composed. He performed primarily with an acoustic guitar and sang about his joy in nature, his enthusiasm for music, and his relationship trials. (Source: Wikipedia)