Heartbreak Hotel: John Cale, Shawn Colvin & Richard Thompson

John Cale, Shawn Colvin & Richard Thompson perform a haunting version of Heartbreak Hotel on Night Music.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Heartbreak
• Hotel
• John
• Cale
• shawn
• Colvin
• Richard
• Thompson

[pang5]

I wanted to hear the music and not the synth or 80's sax. :(

[scmm42]

>> I wanted to hear the music and not the synth or 80's sax. :(

Well, there is no synthesizer used, and I'm not sure what makes a sax sound like the 80's, so I don't really see the point of your comment. Maybe you mean you just don't like this version, which is fine with me.

I like this version. It typifies why Night Music was a great show. It took musicians you would not normally see performing together and let them create interesting art.

[murgatroydfl]

Cale's arrangement enhanced is truly a marvel. The additions of Thompson and Colvin are strokes of brilliance. Nightmarish! and Classic!

(iamathatiam...grow a set of ears...)

[yogoshun]

nevermind that last comment of mine.

I actually really enjoy listening to this version.

[daelvo]

@scmm42 i think pang5 mistakenly refers to the lap pedal steel guitar being played as a synth, an understandable error considering its otherworldly quality. this performance blows my mind--guess i'll be tracking down the rest of Night Music...

[33rdPatriot]

Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis' first big hit, was written by Hoyt Axton's mother. Hoyt's dad was career military. See Dave McGowan's research into LAUREL CANYON MUSIC scene to understand the connection, magnitude and implication. ( davesweb dawtt cnchost daughtt komme ). The song was inspired by a suicide of man who attempted to eradicate his existence before leaping from a hotel window. This extremely dark interpretation is probably most accurate to the spirit behind this song.

[JohnnyJazz365]

Very interesting and unique adaptation.

[mikewarns]

This may make up for "Junkfood Junkie."

[djlegand]

nothing better than hearing a song you like played the way the band likes. this is what makes grow

[ibgkneil]

Ok...we played HBH on Halloween as our first song. We did the INTRO like this (frist two verses and chorus only) and then we stoped for 4-beats of complete silence and then the whole band jumped in.with the up-beat Elvis version repleat with our lead guitarist as Elvis - AWESOME !!!

[babashee]

Night Music was vastly cool.

[CescaJanece]

This is utterly fantastic. The arrangement is chilling and brilliant, but the mix of musicians is also fantastic. This particular version continues to make my spine tingle. It's d:a:r:k: Side note: whatever Shawn did or stopped doing that resulted in her returning to a healthful weight, good news. She is dangerously skinny in this video.

[kelime]

Fantastic. A marvelous and haunting arrangement.

[ibgkneil]

Cool...our band is playing Heartbreak Hotel Halloween so I was running through some covers on YouBoob. I think we will play the INTRO and OUTRO like this and put the pedals to the metal in between...thanks for posting...hauntingly magnificent musical emotion...