A favorite Leo vocal

[david]

I like this one - he has a good voice to my old ears:

[Marshall]

Did he get younger all of a sudden?

[t-bob]

Jan 20, 2020 23:08:49 GMT -5 Marshall said:

Did he get younger all of a sudden?

Nope.

He has a great clear bass voicing.

[RickW]

For the longest time I didn’t even know he could sing. He’s got a great voice.

[Village Idiot]

Bill Hammond does a great version of this song.

[david]

I would like to hear that.

[david]

Hey, I played Busted Bicycle faster than Leo's performance here (but not nearly as articulate). He has slowed a bit, but damn he is good !

[coachdoc]

Jan 20, 2020 22:38:11 GMT -5 david said:

I like this one - he has a good voice to my old ears:

The fella what wrote it, Paul Siebel

youtu.be/lAX3uuun_Ls

And my favorite of his tunes off his spectacular album Woodsmoke and Oranges

[coachdoc]

Jan 21, 2020 6:45:21 GMT -5 coachdoc said:

Jan 20, 2020 22:38:11 GMT -5 david said:

I like this one - he has a good voice to my old ears:

The fella what wrote it, Paul Siebel

youtu.be/lAX3uuun_Ls

And my favorite of his tunes off his spectacular album Woodsmoke and Oranges

youtu.be/z1HhjfJeIzY

Someone pull off that yodel at idiot jam?

[millring]

I've played that for a group of old potters and they all got kinda misty. I played it for my brother (the one who taught me to play guitar in 1967) and he said he had never heard it. "So, how did she die?" was his question.

[millring]

Paul Siebel should play a Sobell.

[billhammond]

Jan 21, 2020 0:00:51 GMT -5 Village Idiot said:

Bill Hammond does a great version of this song.

Thanks, Todd, you are very kind.

Funny thing about that song, vis a vis Lonnie. It was not unusual for him to call me the day before or the day of one of his local gigs, inviting me to show up, and "come armed," as he would say, meaning I should bring a guitar, so I could join him for two or three songs. Between those occasions and my years of hosting an open mike at the Coffee Grounds we probably played "Louise" a couple dozen times, and he always found a wonderful counterpart to my guitar line.

I can't remember where we were or when, but I do recall it was at a table with a few friends, and somehow that tune came into the discussion, and Lonnie said, "Yeah, I've always hated that song."

[billhammond]

Jan 20, 2020 23:53:27 GMT -5 RickW said:

For the longest time I didn’t even know he could sing. He’s got a great voice.

Self-described by Leo as "like geese farts on a muggy day."

[dradtke]

Jan 21, 2020 7:32:22 GMT -5 billhammond said:

Jan 21, 2020 0:00:51 GMT -5 Village Idiot said:

Bill Hammond does a great version of this song.

Thanks, Todd, you are very kind.

Funny thing about that song, vis a vis Lonnie. It was not unusual for him to call me the day before or the day of one of his local gigs, inviting me to show up, and "come armed," as he would say, meaning I should bring a guitar, so I could join him for two or three songs. Between those occasions and my years of hosting an open mike at the Coffee Grounds we probably played "Louise" a couple dozen times, and he always found a wonderful counterpart to my guitar line.

I can't remember where we were or when, but I do recall it was at a table with a few friends, and somehow that tune came into the discussion, and Lonnie said, "Yeah, I've always hated that song."

Your version is still my favorite, though.

[drlj]

I saw Leo the first time at The Quiet Knight in Chicago probably in 1972 or 1973.
He is slowing down a bit but he is still a force to be reckoned with(or a force with which to be reckoned).

[casualplayerpaul]

Jan 21, 2020 7:32:22 GMT -5 billhammond said:

Jan 21, 2020 0:00:51 GMT -5 Village Idiot said:

Bill Hammond does a great version of this song.

Thanks, Todd, you are very kind.

Funny thing about that song, vis a vis Lonnie. It was not unusual for him to call me the day before or the day of one of his local gigs, inviting me to show up, and "come armed," as he would say, meaning I should bring a guitar, so I could join him for two or three songs. Between those occasions and my years of hosting an open mike at the Coffee Grounds we probably played "Louise" a couple dozen times, and he always found a wonderful counterpart to my guitar line.

I can't remember where we were or when, but I do recall it was at a table with a few friends, and somehow that tune came into the discussion, and Lonnie said, "Yeah, I've always hated that song."

That so totally sounds like something Lonnie would say. Whenever I tipped him to something that he liked I'd feel like I'd won a prize or something. He could be a piercing critic.

True story: I was totally excited when the first Dire Straits album came out back in '78. I brought it over to Lonnie's place on Penn Avenue late one night and played it for him.

I thought nobody had ever played anything like Mark Knopfler!

Lonnie was not especially impressed. 

"Sounds like he's learned every lick Chet Atkins ever played." Then he proceeded to prove his point by pulling out and playing several Atkins cuts. Of course he was right.

But, obviously he kept an open mind.

Over the years he heard what I'd heard, and admitted that there was more there than had first met his ears. But he also heard what I didn't hear. Typical.

Damn. I miss him.

[billhammond]

Damn. I miss him.

You and me both, sir, and hundreds of others (if not thousands). I was just listening to his take on this Patti Griffin song last night:

[Russell Letson]

That Siebel performance opens a whole different side of the song--both the arrangement and his higher-register vocal. And "She Made Me Lose My Blues" is wonderfully honky-tonk-two-steppy. Now I'm going to have to hunt down the CD compilation of his two Elektra albums.

After Google-shopping: Looks like there's a BGO (Beat Goes On--UK label) reissue in the works, due out in a couple months.

[Village Idiot]

Here's the one that turned me on to Leo's voice many years ago:

[John B]