Tribute for Kenneth, Sean, Ina, and Alex
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
~H.A. Overstreet
Some of my favorite musicians came together to make the songs I am posting today.
I could do a post on each one individually because I enjoy their music and talent.
I posted very brief information on the performers at the end of the post.
Some of my dear friends in blogland have suffered the loss of a loved one.
Monty for the loss of her Uncle Kenneth
SophMom for the loss of Sean
Teresa for the loss of her grandmother
Hula for the loss of Alex
Please take the time to watch and listen to the music.
Turn up the volume because all of these tracks are very clear.
Video #1
Video #2
Video #3
All of the information on the musicians is via Wikipedia.
Video #1 (Go Rest High On That Mountain)
Vince, Patty, and Ricky
Vince Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country music musician, songwriter, and singer. Gill hosted the CMA Awards every year from 1992 to 2003. In 2004 he received a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. In 1997, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Patty Loveless (born Patty Lee Ramey on January 4, 1957 in Elkhorn City, Kentucky) is an American country music singer. Loveless rose to stardom thanks to her mix of honky tonk and emotive country ballads. She is a distant cousin of Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle.
Ricky Skaggs, (born July 18, 1954 in Lawrence County, Kentucky) is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He plays fiddle, guitar, banjo, and, primarily, mandolin.
Video #2 (Where The Soul Never Dies)
Ricky from above and Tony
Tony Rice (born June 8, 1951 in Danville, Virginia) is an acoustic guitarist.
Video #3 (Down in the Valley to Pray)
Ricky, Doc, and Allison
Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is a renowned American bluegrass-country singer and fiddle player. She entered the music industry at a young age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time on her brother's album at fourteen.
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, born March 2, 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina, is a guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music.
Labels: Monday Music, Music, Tribute
posted by Raggedy at March 19, 2007
27 Comments:
I am sorry for all their losses! My best wishes are sent to them and their families.
Hi Raggedy ~~ Beautiful music, which may help your friends. My sympathy to them on their losses.
Thanks for your visit and I am sure to enjoy Peter's visit. We talk for hours and hours and catch up with all the news. Take care, Raggedy, Love, Merle.
Raggedy your kind heart shows in this post and I am here to send out my sympathy for their loss.
There is nothing more tragic then loosing a dear loved one......my blessings to them all.
take care always.
Lee-ann
That's sad, but the music was A+. ;)
I like to beleive there is no loss but becons of light leading the way down the road to where we all go when its time to travel to the next stage of our existance and what's a road trip without music.
Have a nice day
Such beautiful music and lyrics - perfect for easing the weary sould and healing the pain.
Love & hugs!
from the Nice One ;-)
God bless you cool one.and you are soooo cool.your words comfort me.and i know you care.its been a hard few days.and I am slowly coming back.and I was so blessed by the people who stopped and cared enough o leave a comment to help. thank you my dear.God blessed me when I saw your little kitty with the red banddana.and checked out your blog.
Music truly does soothe the soul. I know it did for me when my mom passed away ... and still does as I think of her so very often.
You're a good friend, Raggedy. Your gentle, loving nature shows through once more.
((hugs))
Thank you, sweetie. The Vince song was played at my grandmothers funeral. I will never be able to listen to it again with out crying.
I love the song with Vince Gill. I heard it was for his brother?
Thank you for your support, Raggedy...I think Joshua's Guardian Angel is stepping in. :)
This is just fantastic, Rags. And I can see that it took a long time to put this together, so thanks much for that.
Just wonddrful Raggedy...Breautiful songs, ALL sung so beautifully too...How dear of you to post these particular video songs for those who have sustained deep loss....
Are you a fan of Gillian Welch? I love her music and I think she is a true "artist" in the fullest sese, as these people are in the videos.
I LOVE Your Music Mondays, my dear, and look so forward to them. Thank You Very Very Much...!
I'm sorry for each person's loss. The music you chose is wonderful. I loved all of them!! You picked 3 wonderful, wonderful, wonderful songs by wonderful singers!!! Thanks Raggedy for bringing them to me again!
It is sad to hear of all those people's losses ... hope they are doing ok.
The music you chose was beautiful ... well done.
Thanks for sharing.
Take care, hugs, Meow
The songs are beautiful, I love country music, but I don't know any of the singers, they probably never made it to Europe.
Thanks for sharing the music. It was great.
Dear Raggedy. my deepest sympathy
to your friends and beautifull music.Its very hard to loose a loved one as I have been through it. ((HUGS))
Awww, Raggedy, thanks so much. I'm still rather a mess about it all. I was in the doctor's office for a routine visit yesterday and went to pieces just saying what had happened. I'll have to save listening to the music until I'm home tonight. Thanks again. Hugs to you too.
Thank you so much! *hug*
You're so sweet to take the time to do this for us, and to celebrate the lives of those we've lost.
Love & hugs to you!
xoxox
Sorry to hear about your friends' losses Raggedy.
Time doesn't heal the pain of losing a loved one, but it sure helps lessen it when friends like you to bring together loving tributes like this one :-)
Keep up the good work, Raggedy.
I loved the music. Very touching stuff by some of my favorite performers. Thanks!!
One word.....AWESOME!
hugs
You did good on this one. Alison Krauss is high on my list. Thanks.
I hope you are alright, this was a Saturday/Sunday post.
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Phone Police, just passing through "wink"
You have earned your nickname "the cool one" because this is a very cool list that obviously took a lot of effort! Bravo!
Hi Raggedy ~~ Sorry I have been busy with the visit of my brother Peter
We had a great few days and he should be halfway home to Gympie tonight.
It is so far away and our families are scattered all over the country.
Hope you are well and happy. Take care, Love, Merle.
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