Is Cale often covered at all? I wouldn't be surprised if his songs weren't. It brings up his percarious position between mainstream and avant-garde. His music is too weird for a pop singer to cover (ie Sinatra) and just not out there enough for a avant-garde group to take on. They both miss out; he writes some really killer songs--which comes to fore on Fragments of a Rainy Season. Any song (or artist, for that matter) that can stand up in such a spare arrangement, has to be good. Zach ----- Original Message ----- From: Parry Gettelman <parry@macconnect.com> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:52 am Subject: John Cale
I particularly like the solo "Fragments of a Rainy Season." There's a gorgeous version of "Paris 1919," which has one of my all-time favorite choruses, really jaunty and haunting (it even has a ghost in the lyrics) at the same time. I'm surprised nobody seems to have covered it.
Parry
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Good point about the precarious position. But maybe now that they're just about running out of artists to do tribute albums on...... I vote for a Linda Thompson version of "Paris 1919." Or Richard Thompson. Or Teddy (although Teddy's forte so far seems to be harmony vocals -- he really is an amazing harmony singer, one of my favorite Thompson albums is his self-released live Celtschmerz w/ Teddy all over it). I got to see Cale live once in Orlando, it was wonderful, despite some annoying chatty people. He looked like your classic British tourist, wearing some pants he must've gotten at a surf shop, and was just very low-key and ironic in between these quite intense songs. Very compelling. His last visit to Orlando some 10 years before (I guess about the mid-80s, a few years before I got mired there) had been rather less auspicious -- he reportedly got so wasted he fell off his seat while playing, and insisted on offering refunds to everyone. Of course, I know many performers who wouldn't think that was necessarily the worst way to get through a gig in Orlando, where crowds could be pretty clueless. Parry
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