Hughs Blues Album – Let Them Talk

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  • #246800
    Kathrina
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    Mit Warnung zu geniessen: Gefahr für die Bauchmuskulatur, mit Lachkrämpfen als Begleiterscheinung!

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    Hugh kommt nach Berlin, Promokonzert! :verliebt::rotes_Gesicht_2:

    #246804
    jane5
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    Ich muss mich bei der Seite erst einloggen???;(
    Wann kommt Hugh nach Berlin?

    #246805
    Violett
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    @jane5 1086756 wrote:

    Ich muss mich bei der Seite erst einloggen???;(
    Wann kommt Hugh nach Berlin?

    Das Datum steht noch nicht fest.

    #246806
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    @jane5 1086756 wrote:

    Ich muss mich bei der Seite erst einloggen???;(
    Wann kommt Hugh nach Berlin?

    Datum steht noch nicht fest.

    Und einloggen bei Hughbunnies ist sehr empfehlenswert…. Viiiele geniale Bilder und andere Leckereien von Hugh zu bewundern :brille::schrei::pray:

    #246807
    jane5
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    @Violett 1086757 wrote:

    Das Datum steht noch nicht fest.

    Achso, danke für die Antwort.

    #246808
    Kathrina
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    Hier der Text, den ich unendlich bewundere (als Zitat im Zitat von mir markiert):

    “Let Them Talk” is the first album to be recorded by Hugh Laurie after signing to Warner Bros Records in 2010. Produced by Joe Henry and recorded in Los Angeles and New Orleans, the album is a celebration of New Orleans blues, a genre that drives Hugh’s musical raison d’être.

    Spiritually inspired by similar genre albums like Ry Cooder’s ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ and T-Bone Burnett’s ‘O’ Brother Where Art Thou’ soundtrack, Hugh’s ‘Let Them Talk’ recordings bring together an extraordinary selection of heritage tracks, renowned musicians and vocal legends to champion this much neglected body of work.

    Hugh drives the whole album on piano and vocals and is joined in the studio by the ‘Queen of New Orleans’ herself, Irma Thomas, blues piano and horns supremo Allen Toussaint, vocal legend Sir Tom Jones and in an especially momentous collaboration on ‘After You’ve Gone’ by his lifelong hero Dr. John.

    Released on May 9th in Europe, the album launch will be supported by live shows in London, Paris and Berlin and a television special following Hugh’s musical journey to New Orleans and featuring the performances of much of the album filmed at Kingsway Studios in the French Quarter along with Hugh’s band and his incredible collaborators.

    I was not born in Alabama in the 1890s. You may as well know this now. I’ve never eaten grits, cropped a share, or ridden a boxcar. No gypsy woman said anything to my mother when I was born and there’s no hellhound on my trail, as far as I can judge. Let this record show that I am a white, middle-class Englishman, openly trespassing on the music and myth of the American south.

    If that weren’t bad enough, I’m also an actor: one of those pampered ninnies who hasn’t bought a loaf of bread in a decade and can’t find his way through an airport without a babysitter. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that I’ve got some Chinese characters tattooed on my arse. Or elbow. Same thing.

    Worst of all, I’ve broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That’s how it works. You don’t buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor’s music?

    The answer is – there is no answer. If you care about provenance and genealogy, then you should try elsewhere, because I have nothing in your size.

    I started piano lessons at the age of 6 with Mrs Hare. She was a nice woman, probably; but in my twisted childhood memory I have cast her as a warty thug who bullied me across the hot coals of do-re-mi. I stuck it for about three months, grinding through Elementary Piano Book One until we reached Swanee River by Stephen Foster. (Foster, as it happens, was also a trespasser. Born in Pennsylvania, he never saw the actual Suwannee River – nor did he set foot in Florida, which adopted the song as its state anthem in 1935. I’m just saying.)

    Now you could hardly call Swanee River a blues song – in one of its earliest editions, the score was sold as “An Ethiopian Melody” – but it’s a lot closer than the French lullabys and comical Polish dances that made up the rest of that hellish book.

    The day arrived, and Mrs Hare turned the page: “Swanee River”, she read, peering through the pince-nez that I have imagined for her, 45 years later. And then, with a curl of her hairy lip, she read the subtitle: “ ‘Negro Spiritual – Slightly Syncopated.’ Oh dear me no.….”. With that, she flicked the page to Le Tigre Et L’Elephant, or some other unholy nightmare, and my relationship with formal music instruction ended.

    And then one day a song came on the radio – I’m pretty sure it was I Can’t Quit You Baby by Willie Dixon – and my whole life changed. A wormhole opened between the minor and major third, and I stepped through into Wonderland. Since then, the blues have made me laugh, weep, dance… well, this is a family record, and I can’t tell you all the things the blues can make me do.

    At the centre of this magical new kingdom, high on a hill (which shows you how little I knew back then), stood the golden city of New Orleans. In my imagination, it just straight hummed with music, romance, joy, despair; its rhythms got into my gawky English frame and, at times, made me so happy, and sad, I just didn’t know what to do with myself. New Orleans was my Jerusalem. (The question of why a soft-handed English schoolboy should be touched by music born of slavery and oppression in another city, on another continent, in another century, is for a thousand others to answer before me: from Korner to Clapton, the Rolling Stones to the Joolsing Hollands. Let’s just say it happens.)

    Over the next decade, I consumed all the guitarists I could find: Charley Patton and Lead Belly, who was a genius, as was Skip James, Scrapper Blackwell, all the Blinds (Lemon Jefferson, Blake, Willie Johnson, Willie McTell), Son House, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters and so many more that we’d be here all night just naming a tenth of them.

    And then there were the towering piano players: Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Roosevelt Sykes, Leroy Carr, Jelly Roll Morton, Champion Jack Dupree, Tuts Washington, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Allen Toussaint and Dr John.

    I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do. Guitars appeal to the footloose, the restless. I like sitting a lot.

    As for singers, that’s a huge list, with only two names on it: Ray Charles and Bessie Smith.

    These great and beautiful artists lived it as they played it: all of them knew the price of a loaf of bread and most had times in their lives when they couldn’t scrape it together. They had credentials, in other words, and I respect those as much as the next man, possibly more.

    But at the same time, I could never bear to see this music confined to a glass cabinet, under the heading Culture: Only To Be Handled By Elderly Black Men. That way lies the grave, for the blues and just about everything else; Shakespeare only performed at The Globe, Bach only played by Germans in tights. It’s formaldehyde, and I pray that Lead Belly will never be dead enough to warrant that.

    So that’s my only credential – my one dog-eared ID card that I hope will get me through the velvet ropes and into your heart. I love this music, as authentically as I know how, and I want you to love it too. And if you get a thousandth of the pleasure from it that I’ve had, we’re all ahead of the game.

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    PLEASE NOTE: the album launch will be supported by live shows in London, Paris and Berlin and a television special following Hugh’s musical journey to New Orleans and featuring the performances of much of the album filmed at Kingsway Studios in the French Quarter along with Hugh’s band and his incredible collaborators. *

    #246809
    rolliraserin
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    Ich glaub ich muss Berlin mal einen Besuch abstatten :D – Die News ist echt der Hammer:happy:

    Die ersten 3 Songs gibts schon bei Itunes, und das Cover dazu :)

    You Don’t Know My Mind – Single by Hugh Laurie – Preorder You Don’t Know My Mind – Single on iTunes

    #246810
    Jacqui
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    Ich würd zu gern reinhören, aber ich will i-tunes nicht installieren. Gibts da nicht noch ne andere Möglichkeit?

    Gibts da irgendwo mal ne Orginalversion von der Single? Soweit ich das mitbekommen habe sind das auf dem Album doch alles Coversongs, oder?

    #246813
    Anonym
    Gast

    ich hab itunes…hihihi :happy:

    #246815

    Ich hoffe die Single ist bald auch im Handel bereits zum Vorbestellen. :zunge:

    Und wann kommen endlich die Tickets für Berlin raus? ;(

    #246823
    jane5
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    Bei mir will I tunes die Song nicht abspielen.:boese_2:
    Hat jemand eine Idee woran das liegen könnte?

    #246826
    huddylove
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    Vielleicht weil der Song erst am 20. März veröffentlicht werden soll.Man kann ihn bei Itunes aber schon als PreOrder kaufen.Was ich gerade getan habe :happy::happy::happy:

    Habe ein Interview mit Hugh Laurie gefunden auf der spanischen Warner Bros. Seite.

    Warner Music Argentina

    Deutsche Übersetzung hier:

    [Info] Hugh Laurie (Dr. House) – Let Them Talk (Album 2011 – 29. April) | CotoTEL

    :happy::happy:

    Dank an @HLarchive

    #246849
    nivar
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    Hugh_Laurie_Craig_Ferguson_March3newsnea.jpg
    HL bei Ferguson
    YouTube – Kanaal van TVsCraigFerguson

    war wirklich ein netter Auftritt… :lächeln:

    auch wenn ich bei jedem der diversen show-Auftritte (egal bei wem) immer den Eindruck habe, dass sich der Mann insgeheim fragt „What the hell I’m doing here!“ :Augenrollen:
    aber Klappern gehört nun mal zum Handwerk

    #246909
    rolliraserin
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    Den Artikel hab ich grad auf hughbunnies gefunden, und kurz überflogen;

    U.S. and European Release Set for Hugh Laurie’s Let Them Talk CD. Tour, iTunes Single and TV Documentary – Blogcritics Music

    In den USA kommt das Album erst im September?? Und in dem Artikel redens scho von ner 8. Season?!

    Und weiss wer wo bei den 2en genau der Unterschied liegt, abgesehen vom Preis??

    Let Them Talk: Hugh Laurie: Amazon.de: Musik

    Let Them Talk: Hugh Laurie: Amazon.de: Musik

    #246912

    Was ist eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen den beiden verschiedenen CD’s? :Augenrollen:

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