"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." Bob Marley

Monday, 22 April 2013

Well folks, my apologies for going quiet for so long.  It has been a busy April so far! 

As it was the Junos last night and KD Lang was inducted in to the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame I thought I would share a song and two musicians that I have always loved.   KD Lang and Roy Orbison both have incredibly rich, powerful and unique voices with the ability to send a chill down your spine.  For those of you who haven't heard their duet on the song "Crying" you likely wouldn't think of these two artists together.  Their voices, however, blend together and enhance one another in an ethereal way.  At times it is hard to tell the difference between their voices, so seamlessly do they mingle.   Lang inherited the song from Orbison when he passed away and preforms it regularly in varying degrees of brilliance.  She is a Canadian treasure, an icon and no one else can do quite what it is that she does.  There are many different songs you could listen to, to understand this but I have recently come across this old, live version of her singing "Crying" without Orbison and it is truly beautiful.  So in celebration of her truly deserved induction in to the Hall of Fame take a listen to this song and as John Lennon said, "turn of your mind, relax and float down stream" the journey is transcendent.

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