Non devisive music thread.

Since we're on the subject of great songwriters, what about this guy?
And what about the legendary local stylings of Dionne Warwick?!

 
Ricky Fandango said:
Most people have no clue that Willie wrote that song.
Like Kristofferson, Willie was a prolific song writer of many country hits that were performed by other artists.
Others, like Billie Joe Shaver launched careers of people like Waylon Jennings with their poetry.
Check the Tommy Collins song I posted and listen to the Buck Owens guitar riffs in the "Leonard" Merle Haggard song I posted.
Another great talent who mentored and wrote great songs, but unfortunately, Tommy didnt have all the other ingredients to become a "Willie Nelson".
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I saw Kristofferson talking on Charlie Rose one night when I couldn't sleep and really was blown away by him. Didn't realize he was a Rhode Scholar.
 
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Ricky Fandango said:
First off, Kristofferson, as a song writer has few equals.
I posted his version of Sunday morning because if you listen to the words, its pure poetry, and a beautiful tribute to Johnny Cash. KK was visibly breaking up in moments while performing the tribute, which I found touching.
Cash took that song and made it his own, just as Waylon took "To beat the Devil".
The Johnny Cash version of the song IS the song, in much the same way that the Hendrix version of Dylan's "All along the Watchtower" is.
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Humanity, I can see that, pure unadulterated humanity. We need more of that in this world.
 
Lion Eyes said:
You should take your own advice Daffy...
So what have Keanu or Tom written?
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If you reread and comprehend my OP I was referring to Kristofferson's performing chops which I see as minimal. Right there in the post I say that Kristofferson wrote some good songs. You are impossible.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
If you reread and comprehend my OP I was referring to Kristofferson's performing chops which I see as minimal. Right there in the post I say that Kristofferson wrote some good songs. You are impossible.
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"It's as if someone owed him a favor for writing a couple good songs (when others performed them) so they let him perform and be in a couple movies."
Yet, the guy won a Golden Globe Award for best actor.
He's in the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, gotta do more than write a "couple of good songs" to get into those places.
Ignorance is bliss. The lesson is ended.
 
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