Other Mixes By Mark Petruccelli
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Vocal Chords Like Steel Bridge Cables
| Artist | Song | |
| Sha Na Na | Mr. Bass Man | |
| Chuck Prophet | You Did (Bomp Shooby Dooby Bomp) | |
| Crash Test Dummies | Superman's Song | |
| The Magnetic Fields | The Book of Love | |
| Leonard Cohen | Everybody Knows | |
| Tom Waits | Little Drop of Poison | |
| Dave Alvin | Everett Ruess | |
| Greg Brown | I'm Walkin Daddy | |
| Johnny Cash | Ring of Fire | |
| Louis Armstrong | Lazy River | |
| Paul Robeson | Ol' Man River | |
| John Lee Hooker | I'm Bad Like Jesse James | |
| William Elliott Whitmore | Cold and Dead | |
| Ken Nordine | Black | |
| Frank Zappa | Cosmik Debris | |
| Barry White | Can't Get Enough of Your Love | |
| The Ravens | The Cadillac Song | |
| The Chips | Rubber Biscuit | |
| Sonia Dada | Jungle Song | |
| The Cathedrals | This Ole House | |
Comment:
The idea for this mix came from an info-mercial for videos of The Cathedrals where they showcased Bass Vocalist George Younce singing the closer here and an interview with Ry Cooder on the World Cafe where he discussed Paul Robeson. I have always loved low resonent voices. My own vocal range has changed from a First Tenor in High School to a mediocre baritone with a half-octave range today and I have always envied those vocalists who could vibrate windows with their vocal chords.This mix features Doo-Wop, Gospel, Traditional, Soul, Country, Singer Songwriter and Spoken Word tracks featuring either true Basses or guys with gruff, bassy voices. The Waits tune is the version from the End of Violence soundtrack (and not the Orphans version, which is significantly higher.) Last track cut was "Elvira" by the Oak Ridge Boys. Thanks to Lobsterboy for the John Lee Hooker, Rob C for the Magnetic Fields, Musicgnome for the Johnny Cash and Joey de Vivre for the Greg Brown. Title is a description of a Gospel Bass Singers voice I heard on the radio about ten years ago. The description stuck with me. The singers name, unfortunately, did not.
Feedback:
fine stuff
Great Magnetic Fields pick. Overall, this looks really good.
iii like it
Low and behold this is great Mark.
This looks very fine indeed.
Clever concept. Though I think it needs some Joy Division.
Love the Cohen choice and Paul Robeson!
Oh yes oh yes oh yes!! There's nothing that gets me going like a good basso profundo. If you care you trade, anything I have is yours. Oooooooh Bassmen.
Yeah, I have to share Jenny's sentiments here :) This looks GREAT - love the Fields -> Cohen -> Waits sequence and the title too!
have to agree with siobhan on the mag fields into cohen into waits stretch -- love the johnny cash too, among others. this looks exceptional, mark...
an interesting concept for a mix, w/ lots of great stuff. I'm delighted to see Paul Robeson included. another "bassy" voice I like a lot is Johnny Hartman.
That 4-12 stretch looks paricularly special. But pretty much everything here is great.
add me the the cohen-waits admirers.
Deeply fine, but wot, no Beefheart?!
I'm about 50-50 on your inclusions here, but this is certainly a fine idea. And no, plushpig, Mark doesn't *like* Beefheart. ;-)
Let's be honest Rob .... I don't *get* Beefheart, but I've been trying for 8 years.
Great title! Certainly paints a picture of what's to come. Loads of steel cable here.
I'm with the rest of the crew - looks like pure lowdown goodness. I'd love to hear it... I'm a half octave range guy myself, somewhere around bass.
That low, low, low voice... if you don't got it, you don't got it. So it's a tribute to the singers who've somehow managed to pull it off, then. That sounds right peachy fine and comforting to me. (Even if some of them did have to suffer a crushed larynx to get that way.) I'm so glad to see Paul Robeson -- for some reason, it seems like he usually shows up as a more important figure in American history in general than in *music* history, and that ain't right. (I swear, most people I talk about music with have never even *heard* of him. This is insensate.) And... holy crap, there's *another* version of Little Drop Of Poison? Someone ought to compile an Orphans 2....
Hail Ken Nornide, the voice that satisfies like a thousand Chesterfields
love, love, love this. Something about those low gravely voices that just does it for me.
mmmmmmm, cool.
Really interesting blend! I'd definately pour me a cup.
Very cool.
After actually HEARING this - what a great gruff gravelly group of deep low-down earthy vibrating voices! Where would we be without a bass line?
Immediate favorites here are Leonard, Johnny, Louis, Paul, Greg, & the Ravens, but they're all resonating with me. I wonder why Ken Nordine never (to my knowledge) tried to carry a tune - seems like his amazing voice was made for it.Many thanks for the chance to hear this.
Immediate favorites here are Leonard, Johnny, Louis, Paul, Greg, & the Ravens, but they're all resonating with me. I wonder why Ken Nordine never (to my knowledge) tried to carry a tune - seems like his amazing voice was made for it.Many thanks for the chance to hear this.