If anyone’s hanging around this holiday evening, I thought it might be fun to have a “battle of the best female vocalist” just for fun. I know it has nothing to do with the holiday we’re supposed to be celebrating, but I didn’t think a “patriotic funkaliscious” would go down to well with this crowd. LOL
My nomination for best female vocalist goes to k.d. Lang and here’s three reasons why.
To sit between the chairs, who doesn’t know that state? Here is one side, there the other. You can see both sides, you know them, maybe all too well, but you are not able, or rather: not willing to make up your mind. It is the classical dilemma, no matter which side you will choose, you will loose something, often times a person, that you will hurt, who will then feel betrayed. But you don’t want this and therefore you stay somewhere in the middle till, yes, till something happens and brings along the decision; sometimes you are involved actively, sometimes passively. It has evolved and the situation finds a resolution. But till that moment there is this strange state, you simply feel in between. – Minako Seki
Nina Simone: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
I’m still playing with a deaf machine, so this is a rerun. But it’s a rerun of music from the tough times.
I didn’t actually have a copy of Nina singing the first song. A friend, one of the first 20 people I came out to, made me a tape of two Mary Travers solo albums (Mary and Morning Glory) and that song was included. It kept me going.