Lindsay is an American guitarist singer record producer and this 2004 album is full of well produced songs. Good production and excellent guitar, mostly electric on this CD He had a distinctive vocal that just about copes with the songs he wrote. Like most of his albums I have listened to Buffalo contains enough good songs to make it worthwhile. LaFave was an American folk singer songwriter who leaned towards the country scene. >1 baswood: Jimmy LaFave 1955-2017 - Buffalo Returns to the Plains 1995 The man who escaped the Gestapo by crossing into France on foot had yet to learn to write a happy end, or else. one could write a book about the differences between the European and the American stage based on this one example.Įven brightened and stultified to suit American taste for infantile make-believe, 'Johnny Johnson' was still too tart, satirical and depressing for Weill's new audience. It's filled with motifs from his European works but the Broadway-musical direction he was headed in (because he had no choice) is very clear: the very bright big band sound, hammy Anglo voices, silly names like Minnie Belle.

The second one is a little too orchestrated for my taste, but it does contain Le Roi d'Aquitaine, one of Weill's loveliest songs but for some reason rarely recorded.Įarly this morning I listened to more Weill, 'The music for Johnny Johnson', the first work he staged in America. (It's also mentioned in several novels and memoirs of the period, for example Edmund White's The Farewell Symphony.

I'm not fond of operatic voices outside their natural habitat and the two Stratas albums of Weill's songs are the only such examples I have-the first album, 'The unknown Kurt Weill' from 1981, made a big hit at the time.

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