I'm only now becoming aware that this song is of unknown origin and was made popular around 1928 by Louis Armstrong. I thought it was an original by one of my favorite Folk/Bluesman Abner Jay after hearing his phenomenal rendition. This videos rendition is fantastic with incredible vocals, much respect, but I think it's waaaay too upiddy for the lyrics IMHO. I highly recommend listening to Louis Armstrong's and Abner Jay's performances......please!
From singing with Janis back in the day, to this fabulous duet with the wonderful Rhiannon, Tom Jones has quite the amazing run as an incredible singer.
I have only been able to see her once but it was memorable. It was 2010 at a school auditorium in Harlem. She was still with the Carolina chocolate drops. It was the perfect time the perfect place and the perfect band. They all stayed in the lobby and mingled and chatted with everybody until there was no one left. It wasn't like a lineup for a merch table autograph. It felt more like hanging out backstage in a party or Green room situation.
If hearing Rhiannon singing isn't impressive enough, consider she is one the best banjo players alive and can hold her own on the fiddle and is a fantastic flat foot dancer. All that in addition to being a musical scholar of the highest order.
Well, she plays banjo, but I have never heard of her being a virtuoso--maybe she is; this is the first I have heard of it. The few things I have heard her play were simple tunes. Not disputing, just news to me.
Yes, she's sensational. But it's not just God given. She's studied, worked, and developed it. There are many who have the potential, but do nothing with it. It takes commitment.
AND cultivated. This woman is SO highly educated -- probably a genius, creatively, skillfully, intellectually, academically, and damn beautifully throughout.
I'm only now becoming aware that this song is of unknown origin and was made popular around 1928 by Louis Armstrong. I thought it was an original by one of my favorite Folk/Bluesman Abner Jay after hearing his phenomenal rendition. This videos rendition is fantastic with incredible vocals, much respect, but I think it's waaaay too upiddy for the lyrics IMHO. I highly recommend listening to Louis Armstrong's and Abner Jay's performances......please!
This came at the end of a RU-vid rabbit hole which started innocently enough with Brandy's "I Wanna Be Down," and I'm glad it did. Big band, and two even bigger voices.
My mom passed away almost a year ago. I've been listening to some artists & songs that she enjoyed in honor of her. She loved Tom Jones, and while she didn't know Rhiannon Giddens, she surely would have embraced her voice, and her music. This performance was amazing.
I miss the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the group that Ms.Giddens helped to found. But, she has certainly expanded her work. And Sir Tom is always wonderful.
Sir Tom still has what it takes, fantastic voice. The young lady also has a great voice, this was a great duet. Jools Holland and his band are the best. Well done by all.👍👍
Oh how i love tom jones! Hes so sexy and still has got it. His voice is so awesome as it always been a very powerfull sìnging voice. I have a lot of his albums and cd's love him totally!!!!! OMG!!!!
Came to this because I'm a fan of Rhiannon Giddens. I totally changed my mind about Tom Jones after seeing the Mike Figgis segment of Martin Scorsese's documentary on the blues. I had always dismissed Jones as Las Vegas glitter - something I detest. But listening to him discussing music in that "Red, White & Blues" segment (on the British blues scene), I had to change my view of TJ - he's a talented guy who cares about music. I very much comes across in that documentary. Those of you who don't know the origin of St. James Infirmary Blues, look it up on Wikipedia. I had thought it was a Louis Armstrong composition, but it seems Satch didn't write it but instead made it famous, all the way back in 1928!
Well that was rather tremendous. Rhiannon is the reason I watched, but respect to Tom Jones. Respect for recognizing Rhiannon's talent and respect for his singing.
The PBS concert at the Ryman brought me here because of Rhiannon Giddens - had never heard of her. Wow! Super talented, beautiful and classy - very impressed.
THIS IS Tom Joooonesssss! Wow, very few singers keep the ability to sing well after so many years a career. He was not only a gorgeous man, it turns out.... :)
This song originated from a dirge about the plague in London. The song was taken to New Orleans in the 1700s by English migrants and emerged as a funeral trad jazz lament.
I heard Tom Jones in 1965 in Framingham Massachusetts at the Carousel Theater. Wow did he have pipes! I did not see him. We lived on Gleason Street and sat on the hill above the theater and could hear the show-without paying. It was a tent-theater in the round open air. Jimi Hendrix played there and Led Zeppelin. Nice! Thanks
Oh My F'n God, the chills her voice gives!! The blues and her skat... Two great talents on one stage, not to mention one kick-ass band in the back there.... Thank you for posting...
When I was young I wrote off Tom Jones as just a typical pop singer. As I've grown older I've grown to appreciate what a great musician he is. The range of musical genres he covers is amazing!
Did not have high expectations for this. So I'm very pleasantly surprised. That band is ...top. And the piano player is supreme. Giddons' voice is so powerful.
Discovered Rhiannon Giddens a few years ago. This lady has more pure talent than the bulk of shallow ass wiggling imposters that try to pass themselves off as "artists" these days..
Why do we judge people for their taste in music and call people fakes because it’s not what you like? To be honest it depends what I’m in the mood for, I love soul music and jazz but sometimes I eat electric, other times I want lo-fi and besides being an artist means put emotions into a physical form be if painting, acting, dance, or music so who are you to shame others for preforming what they feel, if anything that makes you the shallow one for being so superficial when it comes to music, art is a feeling not a style so as long as you invoke an emotion while making music you are an artist, and consider this, if they invoked a feeling of anger with you, then they did ultimately achieve their goal, just not in the way they probably hoped
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