Ok, maybe everyone is sick of the issues being discussed over napster, but that's neither here nor there. I now have an emergency. I usually only download rarities...live preformances, techno remixes, unlikeley duets....etc... My favorite female vocalist/songwriter in the world is Syd Straw. I try to own everything available, I have for years. The same is true of Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey <the dB's etc...> Ok, here's the problem. I found for the first time tonight a duet between syd straw and peter holsapple. I checked online reference sites, nothing. Oh, the song was cut off half way through the intro, so I didn't even get to hear anything good. Not listed in AMG. Not a thing on eBay...etc. Where do I look now? Oh, and there's this Billy Bragg live bootleg that I'd just about kill for. Damn, I wish I wasn't so po'12 responses total.
The song is called "You don't miss your water" which is either by Otis Redding, or the Byrds. I'm not familiar with that particular song. I NEED HELP WITH THIS OR I AM GOING TO EXPLODE!
I hate to say it, but *you're* the local Syd Straw expert. Please don't explode, OK?
Have you tried verifying the existence of such a track with the Syd Straw people? Perhaps the artist listing was as flawed as the recording was. I got an MP3 from someone of Weird Al's "Cantina" song. If you listen to the track, you can tell it's not Al, and Al actually has a few paragraphs on his website saying, no, it's not him, and would everyone please stop asking?
I thought "You Don't Miss Your Water" was an old blues song. I am not succeeding in finding an author for it on the web; William Bell had a single with it in 1962, which seems early for Otis Redding to have written it. Ah, here is a site which seems to be attributing it to William Bell.
well i said I thought, I was only basing that on doing a search for the song title. Well it could be an old old golden palominos b-side, so I'll look into that as well. The AMG wasn't by any means accurate, they left out a bunch of side projects for all the people that she has worked with. <sigh> I was so excited, too. I'll look for it till I find it. It's too bad I'm ann arbor's syd straw expert, now isn't it?
Don't worry. It'll turn up again.
It would seem to be from about the period of Golden Palominos' "Blast of Silence" album, just because both Straw and Holsapple are on that one, as you know. I'm having trouble imagining the Palominos ever having a single with a B side. Hmmm. Don't let me deter you from your search.
http://www.cdwarehouse.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prmenbr=77&prr fnb r=47432 CD Warehouse lists a Chris Stamey album named Fireworks, 1991 release, with track 13 called "You Don't Miss Your Water" None of the female vocalists listed in the credits is Syd Straw, though Peter Holsapple is listed as a primary singer. CD Warehouseclaims to have a used copy.
"You Don't Miss Your Water" is a personal favorite of mine. It was, in fact, written by William Bell, and appears originally on his (Stax?) album "The Soul of a Bell." It's been covered by an amazing number of artists, including some unlikely choices (e.g. Brian Eno) but my favorite version is the Byrds' cover that appears on their classic "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album. -- Carla, this is probably a stupid question if you really are a Syd Straw fanatic, but you are aware of Straw's work (and Holsapple's for that matter..) with Anton Fier's project, "the Golden Palominos", right? Straw did the vocals for quite a few of the best tracks on several of their albums in the 1980s, back when they were on the now-defunct Celluloid Records. The band has a rotating lineup, except for Fier, and they've switched to other female vocalists since then (they were on Amanda Kramer when I lost track a while ago..) I think most of those Celluloid albums are still out of print in the U.S. but they should be available as imports, and CDNow shows at least one of them as having been reissued in Aug 1999.
hmm.....pretty sure that I could find fireworks at wazoo, appropriately enough, it's the only chris stamey albumn that I don't have <sort of forgot about it> Thanks brighn! Ken that was what I was thinking as well....but oh yes they have b sides in fact I have 2 12" singles currently in my collection as we speak and they have b sides...but I guess that it would make sense that the track that I'm looking for could be the one on the chris stamey albumn and since I have a few seconds of the opening left on mp3 I can play the two and see once I get that chris stamey albumn that I don't have. Thanks ken! Also, this group does commit a lot of song incest the song angels has been done 4 times by different combinations of them, for example. My search continues.
Mike slipped in! Yes, I am very familiar with the golden palominos, they are one of the best collaborations in musical history, IMHO. Most of my all time favorite musicians, plus they introduced me to Bill Laswell. I found the dB's first and separately from Syd Straw whom I gave a listen to because Michael Stipe was singing on her solo albumn. I'm pretty much obsessed with peter holsapple, michael stipe and syd straw equally. I do also agree that some of the best palominos songs are the ones with Syd. "Diamond" (which was written by holsapple), "Brides of Jesus", "I've been the one" is more than likeley my favorite recorded song of all time, "Blas of silence" was my favorite albumn. Of course, thanks to syd singing on his albumn, I was introduced to freedy johnston, sho also rules. I'm suprised that I've never heard of the song "You don't miss your water" since i studied blues guitar for 2 years.
It's not a blues standard.. William Bell was more of a "soul" artist, the Byrds covered it as a country/western tune, and other covers I've heard have treated it as a straightforward pop song..
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