IF I HAD A BOAT by LYLE LOVETT Story by Luke R Davies
Lovett covers a lot of styles, is a wonderful singer-songwriter who draws on the well of folk, blues, country and western swing.
Lovett covers a lot of styles, is a wonderful singer-songwriter who draws on the well of folk, blues, country and western swing.
For a time I was transported to a place that's hard to explain. It was sublime, an experience one might call spiritual. Confirming even an atheist can be touched by the unknown.
At our second-ever show - Newport Folk Festival in Melbourne, 2014 ā a folk and blues musician from Wangaratta caught the tail-end of our 45 minute set in the scout hall.
The Mighty Reapers did a wonderful version with Continental Robert Susz on vocals and harp. It was very cool.
Luke Davies pays tribute to his father, via Frank Sinatra's version of My Way.
From the first time I heard Five Feet High And Rising I could relate to it, not that where we lived in the lower Blue Mountains was likely to get flooded. It just somehow touched me.
The love of any form of art is always a subjective thing. What is cool is an art form that can take you to a new level of appreciation of another art form.
The song reached in hard and touched me. That night I have a fan moment and purchase three of Corin's CDs during the interval.
Mary Gauthier entered my little world and reinforced the notion that songwriting is a great art form as worthy of any other. To me, she was, until then, an unknown master of songwriting.
Canāt think of a song all festival that blew me away like Old White Men did. When I caught it at the tail end of Vance Gilbert's set I welled up like everyone else.