Sunday, January 6, 2008

Three great women, songs

C'mon, check these out. All of these are wonderful, but, as a performance, Leslie Feist's cover of "Secret Heart" gets my undying devotion (even if she does hit a sour note on her guitar at the end). When I watch this, I can't help but smile, and the smile lasts.

PJ HARVEY: she rules


DIONNE WARWICK: great singer, not thinker. Dionne + David/Bacharach = great


PATTI SMITH: because I couldn't find a good version of her "Gimme Shelter." This'll do.


Kinda like LESLIE FEIST, too: "Secret Heart," live

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That'll do all right.

Patti Smith.

Damn.

Anonymous said...

Patti Smith: Who'd of thunk she'd get this good as an interpreter of others' songs? Wow.

Anonymous said...

Was you omission of Jessica Simpson intentional?

Anonymous said...

L. Feist is MARVELOUS in this video!

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