singemonkey wrote
It's really telling when the excitement and electricity are all still there when it's just the artist and a guitar with no band or instrumentation. That's song-writing.
Buddy Holly man... *wanders off shaking head in amazement*
I think he had that same quality that Hank Williams had, that directness, that intense focussing of emotion.
What is the name of the album?
Inspired by your posting I have dug out another "stripped down" album. Springsteen's
Nebraska. I think it's a bit overlooked by the masses because of the stadium rock albums that surrounded it, but I think it's a masterpiece. Springsteen really delivers in this more intimate, less bombastic setting. On some of his later tours he did interesting things by taking some of his big wall-of-sound type numbers and stripping them down to their bare essentials and doing them solo. I recall him doing this with "Born To Run" and "No Surrender".
I love "Learning The Game". A great Holly Song. There is an obscure album by a bunch called "The Bunch", a sort of English folk-rock supergroup who came together briefly because some bloke named Branson had a new studio that needed calibrating and thus some trial recordings. Sandy Denny delivered a stunning version of "Learning The Game".
