Cristina Vane Covers Mississippi John Hurt’s “Spike Driver Blues” | CONTRARY WESTERN
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- A couple days before heading out on tour in support of her latest record, “Make Myself Me Again,” Cristina Vane gave us the chance to be a fly on the wall in her living room in Nashville, where she performed a stunning rendition of Mississippi John Hurt’s “Spike Driver Blues” and shared how she was drawn to the song for the first time while studying fingerpicking at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Los Angeles.
“It took me a longer than I’d thought to understand what shared music really means, ‘cause I grew up only listening to music that was ‘original’ or ‘a cover of someone else’s original song’-and I never realized how many traditional songs I knew already, but I never thought about music that way.”
Cristina also shared with us how “Spike Driver Blues” and Mississippi John Hurt’s incredible thumbpicking influenced her approach to her own songs-as well as her understanding of shared songs and folk music. Songs like “Nine Pound Hammer,” which seem to exist outside of any particular genre, helped to inform the ways that Cristina tells her own story as part of something more expansive and all-encompassing than one moment in time captured by a fly on the wall.
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Videographers: Emma Delevante, Emma Kieffer, & Sam Farahmand
Editor: Sam Farahmand
Color by Alex Hochstetler
Mixed by Luke Wiget
Directed & Produced by Contrary Western in Nashville, Tennessee
Great vocals! And playing the music of Mississippi John Hurt. I was most fortunate to have seen Mississippi John Hurt
live at Newport 1965. I've played his songs and other blues since...
You can tell from how she plays and sings that she has a beautiful soul
What a beautiful, beautiful rendition. I would take that kind of imperfection over anything, anytime. Merci Cristina.
This woman is incredible. I saw a performance of hers on Western AF that was just amazing as well
Fabulous…..makes it look so easy, but that constant thumb pick is anything but. A pleasure to listen to
The blues is indeed an imperfect and I really dig her attitude, she is Cool...
Christina really knows her music.
Thanks for sharing. Loved the intro where you talk about the song a bit, that's really interesting !
Love it, I'd love to hear her version of John Henry challenging the steam hammer.
She is just amazing
It won't take long for this channel to blow up. Great job👏
Great rendition.
A vioce like a angel,the is a lot improvisation in that old music
Sounding so much better in the relaxed setting Cristina IMO, your still great on stage . Super talented looking forward to seeing at Dukes of Indy in November
Hell yeah I’ve been trying to work out this one for ages! Amazing love this
A classic beautifully done
Great Cristina!👍
It must be nice to be beautiful AND extremely talented. Wow. I never could get fingerstyle guitar. The thumb... 1 2 1 2 1 2. And I damn sure never could sing and play at the same time.
But I still love playing how I can 😊
I can flatpick, but not fingerpick. Not enough neurons😅
Love this
Awesome Awesome job!
love your music.
everyone thinks its so simple.. but its not.. and after you catch on.. it is.. LOL.. Love to pick John Hurts music
Great music, wish the minute interview was at the end of the song.
Loved this video.
That's my girl !
Christina is good, very good.
My poor heart
Fabulous Girl. Fred sang at almost a whisper at times, let the lyrics and guitar do the work. But always very quiet, always.
Talented and beautiful. Great job
listen with your ears,not yer dick.
I like the juanty Base line
The good thing about that time period, there weren't any copyright laws. Everybody happily did everybody else's songs. Country and Blues artists shared the same songs. You could get a thank you note for doing somebody's song. All that changed in a couple of decades later. Now, try doing one of Taylor Swift's songs and see what happens.
Let your hammer ring!
Haha, sounds like a Californian tutored by the reality of "Southern music, American music." (Bill C. Malone's book title.) Kudos!
Bra
MJH thumb caused a singularity!