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Good stance, good response to recoil.

@MapleHurricane Man, I've been listening to this song for 40 years, and I still don't understand it! I don't think that it's really reducible to something else: it just is.

How can anyone possible dislike this video? The only problem is that it's too short!

I have a Kingston guitar that looks exactly like this, except with two pickups.

Karen Carpenter thought of herself as a drummer--but she did have one of the purest, richest voices ever in pop music. She sang with an emotional intelligence that is very, very rare.

For the critics: If she were playing scales, or if she showed no sense of dynamics, I might agree with you. But she is playing melodies, and she has a great sense of dynamics. She can't do much about sustaining notes: after all, the ukulele doesn't have a great deal of sustain.

This is really ju...

Wow! What a different take on this classic song! I really like it! And your voice is great here!

@gkallenbach Absolutely true. The original version is longer and significantly better.

Patsy Cline had a great set of pipes. But, above that, she really understood the songs. She sings them as if she is singing from her own heart. Her phrasing is absolutely brilliant.

Mavis Staples is amazing. She owns "The Weight"--a great, great song.

Wow. Armed men had to kill unarmed kids. Way to go. The music at least undercuts the apologist comments.

@nebulasxtv You know, I've wondered the same thing. But it's what really makes this song. I first heard the song one night while driving from Denver to Cheyenne. I was enchanted by the word "Babylon." The next day I sought out the CD. The word "Babylon" resonates broadly: it gives the song an alm...

@DonARen1950 Of course, the "Late for the Sky" album is full of great work, courtesy of David Lindley--one of the best guitarists ever. His lap steel work on this song is tasteful, beautiful--perfect.

@jedi8246 This is truly a stunning interpretation of this song. I am deeply impressed. The original artist was truly prescient, given that there was no crack cocaine at the time the song was first written.

But let us set that aside. Your interpretation obviously stands on its own merit. And I tr...

This is such a lovely song. It's delightful to listen to Davis's hit version. It's wonderful in part because of the jauntiness with which he sings this very deeply sad song. The clarinet break, which is delightfully bouncy, helps buoy up what might otherwise be too much of a tearjerker of a song.

This is a great song, with great lyrics and a great arrangement. Tender, sweet, pained, beautiful . . .

A marvelous, sad song. It paints very economically, and beautifully a picture of a man with a self-defeating view of love. Hunter's voice is soulful, the arrangement is the epitome of minimalist perfection, and the guitar solo is pure, simple brilliance. I can listen to this one over and over and...

@yarmouk334 Wow! You'd never heard Hank Williams? Well, you have tons of great stuff ahead of you! Check out as well Ernest Tubb, Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells, Jim Reeves, Faron Young . . . Well, you've got a lot of good stuff to listen to! And there's some great modern country, too: Junior Brown and...

Ben E. King is one of our national treasures. Yes, his voice has lost some of its oomph--but his phrasing is still impeccable, and all the great warm soul is still there. Awesome.

At about 0:25, Elmore gives a little laugh. I think that he's laughing because he knows that he has just played one of the most astounding guitar lines of all time. The tone, the note selection, the vibrato, the attack, the dynamics: these are the work of a virtuoso. There are many guitarists who...