![]() ![]() Get a better amp and speakers, if you have to!. Don't bother hunting on cable for a record chance just get the DVDs of this and Albert Hall 2009 and play them loud. Totally into Joe's histrionics on the Gibsons, and just the sort of girl you'd like to look up from a solitary beer and meet by chance. Have to say I think she redefines "raunchy" in the finest traditions of that word - strong, capable, knows exactly what she's after, and very likely to achieve that. Took about 10 seconds to realise she knew exactly what she was doing. Lets find some podcasts to follow Well keep you updated on new episodes. First off guests was Beth Hart, though, with tattoos all over the place. Create your first playlist Its easy, well help you. Yes, I know John Hiatt came on and was absolutely groundedly great, and I've always loved Paul Rodgers voice since "Wishing Well" (1972 or thereabouts). The drumming sounds slightly different from the Albert Hall, but second listen tuned me in better. ![]() ![]() Joe is here with his hardcore bass and keyboard (the wonderful Carmine Rojas and Rick Melick resp.) plus Tal Bergman on drums. Because you say, you know, according to my own light and in my way I’ve tried, and I’ve messed it up like everybody else, but that was the effort.I've just done a review on Joe's Albert Hall 2009 gig - so I'll keep this brief. ![]() “It mitigates a kind of arrogant human statement, which is ‘I’ve tried to be free’ – well everybody tries to be free. ‘In my way’ somewhat modifies and softens the idea, and also includes the possibility of failure. “It’s as explicit as you can get,” Cohen said. The lines that never change, the same ones that enraptured Kristofferson and so many others, are the ones that bookend the song: “Like a bird on the wire / Like a drunk in a midnight choir / I have tried in my way to be free.” In Harry Rasky’s 1979 book The Song of Leonard Cohen - Portrait of a Poet, a Friendship, and a Film, Cohen talked about the line concerning his character’s quest for freedom. In concert, Cohen changes things around a bit: “If I have been untrue / It’s just that I thought a lover had to be some kind of liar too.” That variation puts the blame on the character’s ignorance more than anything else. Bird on the Wire (Leonard Cohen cover) by Joe Bonamassa was played in 74 out of 996 shows, with a probability of 7.43 to listen to it live, since its debut. For example, the original version contains the lyrics “If I, if I have been untrue / I hope you know it was never to you,” suggesting that the character’s betrayal may have been first and foremost to his own ideals, with all those around him simply suffering collateral damage. When he performs it live, Leonard often toys with the lyrics to bring heretofore buried nuance to the surface. These are made plain by his admission that “Like a beast with his horn / I have torn everyone who reached out for me.” Those destructive flaws are redeemed somewhat by his intentions to do better: “But I swear by this song / And by all that I have done wrong / I will make it all up to thee.”Īs is the case with many Cohen compositions, “Bird On The Wire” is never quite a finished product. Bird on a Wire, Blue and Evil, Mountain Time and Young Man Blues. It’s in the middle sections, when that famously deep voice stretches to its humble limits, that the vulnerability and genuineness of the song’s protagonist emerges. There are no upcoming episodes scheduled on WTTW. In the verses, he staggers through the slow tempo like one of those tipsy singers he mentions. Bird on a Wire, Blue and Evil, Mountain Time and Young Man Blues. Its origins date back to the early Sixties when Cohen, then living on the. Yet none of these interpreters locates the song’s core quite as well as Leonard himself, especially in that original studio version. Bird on the Wire, regarded as one of Cohen’s signature songs (now a vocal standard, covered by everyone from Joe Cocker and Johnny Cash to the Neville Brothers and Willie Nelson, and even Joe Bonamassa), appears on Cohen’s Songs from a Room, released in 1969. Even Johnny Cash sang a brooding version that brought the song’s darker elements to the forefront. Play online or download to listen offline free - in HD audio, only on JioSaavn. I'll Take Care Of You (with Beth Hart) 9. Listen to Bird On a Wire on the Unknown music album Beacon Theatre - Live from New York by Joe Bonamassa, only on JioSaavn. Down Around My Place (with John Hiatt) 5. In addition to Collins’ early take, there have been excellent performances of the song by numerous notable artists, including Fairport Convention, Joe Cocker, The Neville Brothers, Tim Hardin, and K.D. Joe Bonamassa - Beacon Theatre - Live from New York Album Lyrics 1. Cohen’s music has always been catnip for artists looking for cover material, and “Bird On The Wire” has proved especially fertile ground, perhaps because it’s one of the Canadian bard’s most elastic melodies. Bird on a Wire and John Hiatts I Know a Place, tying it all together. ![]()
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