Awesome Song, Awesome Artist

[johnallg]

And one hell of a bass line. Anyone else heard of Toni Childs? I was googling info to an answer for the NY Times puzzle and one of her later albums came up, reminding me how good she is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ei1_-j4-I

[winston]

She's great. What a voice.

[johnallg]

She's great. What a voice.

Yeah, I had to dig out her two cds I have at supper and have been listening all evening. Love her compositional sense also. What a feeling her songs invoke.

[ajish4]

OMG!

John, you have EXCELLENT TASTE!

I found her YEARS ago, STOP YOUR FUSSIN drove me on a search to find her CD.

This song played over & over in my house after I found it.

It has a HAUNTING sound & beat that I just couldn't walk away from.

I'm AMAZED someone here found it!

VERY COOL!

[johnallg]

Tony, I got Union back in 88 or 89 while in the BMG CD club. I just about played the digits off it. Tomorrow it is going onto the mp3 player - I digitized it tonight. Her song composition and arrainging, the sounds she gets, and her husky, throaty voice to haunt. How about "Zimbabwae", or "Where's The Ocean." I also really like "Let The Rain Come Down" and "Walk and Talk Like The Angels". Somehow I'm not surprised you know of Toni.....

[ajish4]

Too funny John,

I can't remember when I discovered Toni, but I do remember I was going through a REALLY TOUGH time in my life. Two songs, both from different spectrum's.... STOP YOUR FUSSIN was an eye opener and somehow I found comfort in it, but what really hit home for me Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up". Love the bass line on that one too!
http://www.last.fm/music/Peter+Gabriel/Shaking+The+Tree

They were kind of my crutches during that time.


Hmmm, digitized huh?

[winston]

I just love this song of hers

[johnallg]

Peter Gabriel - So. I about wore that one out too. Gotta love Kate Bush singing along on that one with Peter. That album had a lot of great songs too - like "Mercy Street". "In Your Eyes" was my favorite, along with IYE. I guess besides the music I listened to this cd and also DS's Brother's in Arms as they were both very well recorded and I was modifying CD players for sound quality and writing articles on how to do it at that time. Two cds I could enjoy listening to over and over and over and over..... you get the picture, as I changed a capacitor or op amp, or the bias point.

[ajish4]

We are kindred spirits John!

I LOVE this DS song......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk0QGgYh ... re=related

When that guitar breaks into that riff, at about 3:15 on the CD, it goes right through me!

[johnallg]

Brian, try this one - such haunting beauty in the melody as has Zimbabwe, as the lyrics speak to what is tearing the country apart. Such juxtaposition.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y_Bmb3RYkI

[winston]

She's haunting.........in a very good way. I love her music and her writing.