julius wrote:
My dictionary defines "soul" in the context we're discussing it as: "a
strong positive feeling (as of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor)
which is more or less what i thought it meant. I don't see how it can be
confined to a race.
Here's a very incomplete list of some musicians/performers who have soul, in
my humble opinion: Carly Simon,
I agree! She makes me feel like i will burst sometimes. Sinaed O'conner does
so too but only on her Universal Mother album.
Grace Slick on Dreams, Tracy Chapman, Janis Ian and several others.
recently we went to a huge Garden centre and they had some young performers
there from the Boston Youth Theatre(Boston Lincs, UK). The boy who was
heading them definately had soul. He actually brought tears to my eyes. i
was very moved. he sang old sho tunes from Les Mis and Jesus Christ
Supertstar and otehrs. I am rarely moved by a male singer but was bwoled
over by this one. He put everyhting in it and his face showed that he was
really feeling waht he was singing. It was really amzing and left me quite
unsettled as I was taken by surprise and was unsaure as to why i got so
emotional.
Going back to carly, her voice sends shivers down my spine. She can sing
really deep, deeper than I can do ans when she does, i go all goosbumpy or
my stomach flips.
I have to say that as much as I enjoy Joni, she doesn't have that effect on
me. She is altogether diffewrent and I would be hard pressed to explain why
i listen to her so much. I tend to think more when listening to her whereas
with Carly I tend to feel more.
bw
colin
