Comments on: Open thread 2/10/22 https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606836 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:51:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606836 Burton M:

Glad you like the music posts.

As far as “Why Worry” goes, there’s a pretty simple explanation. I knew the song from the 80s Everly Brothers cover. I’ve followed the Everly Brothers since I was little. But I only got into Dire Straits maybe 10 years ago at most. I know their biggest songs and some of their more obscure ones, but hardly all of their output.

]]> By: Burton M https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606809 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:10:07 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606809 I love the music posts and your comment on this one surprised me a bit. I’ve always known this as a Dire Straits song. But, then, “Brothers in Arms” was a favorite album of mine my last year in HS and was, among a couple others, a major part of the soundtrack to that memorable year.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606807 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:22:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606807 Something on Covid, just so we don’t forget about it.
Truckers of the world unite!
This is what the elites are fighting for.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0068de210cd5e9c2c18e6c443a9edff0fe378fe88ba2a728ec0b9c5442436fa7.jpg?w=800&h=685

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606806 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:21:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606806 I will add to the praise for Rupa Subramanya’s story, and kudos to Bari Weiss for hosting it.
The portraits are in the same league as the old Life magazine at its best.
Stunning.

Her story is great too; along the lines of Salena Zito’s quest to get out in the country and actually talk to the people that most pundits only opine about.

]]> By: CV https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606785 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:18:02 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606785 MollyG,

I had the same reaction to photographer Dan Aponte’s compelling portraits of Canadian truckers (with article on Bari Weiss’ substack). Pulitzer quality.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606784 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:17:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606784 I’ve recently discovered the unlikely but magical duo of Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin) and Alison Krauss (bluegrass artist with voice of an angel).

CV:

Big thumb’s up for Plant and Krauss! I loved that album. “Stick With Me Baby” haunts me.

It also lead me to Alison Krauss, who is ungodly talented in her own right. I caught on in 2001 with her album, “New Favorite,” but she has plenty of good ones before and after.

Readers may recall her from “O Brother Where Art Thou?” One of the purest songs to reach the public I can think of.

–“Down To The River To Pray – Alison Krauss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif77IVQdY

She and her brother Viktor Krauss did an incredible cover of Plant’s “Big Log,” which was even more atmospheric and hypnotic than the original. Plus one isn’t distracted from the mood by hey! that’s Robert Plant singing.

–“Big log Alison Krauss Robert Plant Viktor Krauss”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmrdh8jO5lc

]]> By: MollyG https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606782 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 02:47:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606782 So . . . later this month, at the Munich Security Conference, the US will be represented not by Joe Biden but by Kamala Harris. Unusual, no?

It’s difficult not to speculate on whether this trip abroad will serve as the occasion for Harris to be, shall we say, desaparecida in some fashion and then replaced (by whom?), after which Biden succumbs, let’s say, to a nasty case of COVID, which he’ll undoubtedly catch from The Unvaccinated.

The latter development would be terribly sad, with the attendant ceremonies compensating in circuses for what the populace lacks in bread while also creating (in Democratic fever dreams) the level of support for the presidential successor that LBJ enjoyed after the unexpected exit of JFK.

Just a thought.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606773 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 02:14:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606773 Doug Martin:

I absolutely love Knopfler and I love his unusual voice. I just wouldn’t have thought it would blend so well with Emmylou’s very different voice. That’s all.

In addition, I’ve been very familiar with the Everly Brothers version of this song, with its more conventional similar harmonizing voices.

]]> By: Doug Martin https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606753 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:28:59 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606753 Neo – I know you’ve told me you’d already written about Mark Knopfler but your seeming surprise at the quality of Mark’s and Emmy-Lou’s harmony compels me to recommend all the videos and soundtracks from their two tours together. Great ballads written by both them sang together and solos. What really strikes me is Mark’s knowledge and access to our culture and history in his writing. NASCAR, prairie weddings, Mason-Dixon Line, the list could go on. While I like his voice, Mark’s tone disguises much of the stories he tells in his ballads. Whenever I first listen I have a copy of the lyrics in front of me. The man is a poet and historian as well.

]]> By: Griffin https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/open-thread-2-10-22/#comment-2606745 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:09:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=114508#comment-2606745 Rufus,

I liked it but maybe I’m biased by the fact that I don’t much care for Radiohead and the original did nothing for me.

Cover songs are always a dicey endeavor with very wide ranging results. They did a cover version of ‘Seven Nation Army’ by the White Stripes that I didn’t care for but I love the original version.

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