Did you happen to see the piece about Edith Piaf and her sad and tragic songs in the New Yorker August 29 issue (Mona Lisa on the cover). It's an archival issue and it's part of The Talk of the Town. Title: Lugubrious Mama. Write4: A.J. Liebling. Date of original publication: Nov 15, 1947. It is about this very subject - tragic songs. "She was a doleful little soul." One more quote from the piece, I can't resist: "In Paris, she used to stand up straight and plain in front of a nightclub audience -- no makeup, a drab dress -- and delight it with a long series of songs ending in a drowning, an arrest, an assassination, or death on a pallet."
Processing the hard stuff....yes...we have to feel the yucky to appreciate the yummy...and hopefully learn. I listened to both the Tiny Desk Concert and "Come Home With Me" from Hadestown. Really good stuff! A lot of YOUR music makes me sad in a really uplifting way.
Did you happen to see the piece about Edith Piaf and her sad and tragic songs in the New Yorker August 29 issue (Mona Lisa on the cover). It's an archival issue and it's part of The Talk of the Town. Title: Lugubrious Mama. Write4: A.J. Liebling. Date of original publication: Nov 15, 1947. It is about this very subject - tragic songs. "She was a doleful little soul." One more quote from the piece, I can't resist: "In Paris, she used to stand up straight and plain in front of a nightclub audience -- no makeup, a drab dress -- and delight it with a long series of songs ending in a drowning, an arrest, an assassination, or death on a pallet."
Processing the hard stuff....yes...we have to feel the yucky to appreciate the yummy...and hopefully learn. I listened to both the Tiny Desk Concert and "Come Home With Me" from Hadestown. Really good stuff! A lot of YOUR music makes me sad in a really uplifting way.
Excellent! Newer Noir never negates.