Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa.
This is my seventh week contributing to "Three Tunes Tuesday", started by @ablaze. It is week 72 overall!
I am trying to stick to a set pattern, where I perform 2 cover songs (written by famous artists) and 1 original song (written by me) around a theme. This week I've chosen the theme of "Songs with Ladies' Names in the Title"!
For the first song, I've chosen something that I remember fondly from my childhood. When Bob Dylan's band, literally called "The Band", decided to retire in 1976, they had a wonderful concert featuring many of the best artists at the time, including Bob Dylan, Van Morisson, Neil Young, Muddy Waters, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell and many more. Martin Scorcese made a brilliant documentary about the last concert called "The Last Waltz" and you should try to find it! The first song I have chosen is the one they did with Emmylou Harris, called "Evangeline", and it's about a woman who loses her lover, a gambler, when a boat sinks into the Mississippi River! Here is a video of that performance from the "Last Waltz" movie:
For my second song, I'm choosing somebody else who featured with a performance at "The Last Waltz" concert of 1976... Mr. Eric Clapton. The song I have chosen is a different song of his called "Layla", and apparently it is about his forbidden love for the lady who happened to be the wife of George Harrison (one of the Beatles) at the time when he wrote it. Well, apparently the song worked and she left George Harrison and married Eric Clapton instead! Here's my favourite version, from Eric Clapton's unplugged performance on MTV in 1992:
And finally, it is time for the week's original song written by me. This is a very special one and it didn't really have a name, but I will call it "Wedding Song to Julia". It is the song I played and sang for my new wife (8 years now!) on our wedding day back in 2014, just before the First Dance. I got some of my friends to form a bit of a "Shoowop" chorus line as well, so I try to give you some of that energy in the verse - I hope you enjoy it!
So, another week and another theme to base two covers and an original song around! What theme will I choose next week? I hope to see you there!
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