Valerie June - "Irene (Goodnight Irene)" [Live at the Kennedy Center | April 2015]
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- In April 2015, breakout artist Valerie June performed at the Kennedy Center as part of an all-star line-up for the Lead Belly at 125 tribute concert honoring the great American songster Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter. In a rehearsal space the day before, she interpreted the American folk standard "Irene (Goodnight, Irene)," a signature song that is included in the new box set 'Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection.'
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The Kennedy Center, in collaboration with the GRAMMY Museum®, hosted “Lead Belly at 125: A Tribute to an American Songster in Washington" on April 25, 2015 for the 125th anniversary of Lead Belly's birth. This one night-only event celebrated his artistry and lasting influence, with many of today’s top folk and blues artists performing his well-known classics. It followed Smithsonian Folkways' release of the first career-spanning box set dedicated to the American music icon, 'Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection.'
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Thank you so much this is the channel that introduced me to ms.june much appreciated
WOW, my mom's name was Irene and she was born in 1950 around the time of this song's release.
Sadly, she went on a 45 yr plus suicide after my dad decided to bail on us via suicide in 1969 and she is gone from this world
as only 66. If I don't outlive her the lifespan in our mother's maternal side will have gone down in 3 generations by a third.
😥 you will outlive her. 🙏🏾
The more I hear her, the more captivated I become.
My Lord thank you for such a beautiful woman, I fell in love with music again. I thought I would never feel that rush of sensation when you hear a song that touches your soul. Now at 41 years on this earth I once again heard REAL music, a serenading symphony of melancholy but at the same time joyful sounds, and to know this ballad originated from the mind and heart of Huddie William "Leadbelly" Ledbetter . Valerie June reintroduced this ballad to me again as if I heard it for the first time. Thank you Valerie I heard your voice.
So under rated!! Love this woman!!
Thank you
Absolute perfection
Great voice ! Close yr eyes and this song walk with you. MV
Lead Belly would be proud!!!!!
Such a beautiful voice....makes one very happy.
Lead Belly is one of the most underrated musician/songwriters ever.
She is hypnotic!
Simply amazing
Wow, such an amazing woman with sweet voice!
Leadbelly would be proud!!!!
Real music.
hey, this is 2017, anybody else you know is covering this song? Ms. June does a great job. thank you.
valerie has got it all.all style's combined into1n sing's n play's from the heart,i dig her.
I like the line "I'll go drink whiskey downtown." I had heard a cleaner version "I think I'll take a stroll downtown.".
Unique Musical Voice. Best Wishes in Your musical career.
simplement belle !
faith in humanity...reaffirmed.
captivating voice ya know and purty
I think this is a splendid interpretation. The reading remains me of Hedy West.
Checked Danny Oz version, best I've ever heard
You know, this raises an interesting question. Will you marry me?
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I love her, but she loses the melody here, the heart of the song.
+Fried_Death Never heard this chick, or even heard of her before chancing upon this vid; appears to be a sort of Lady Day re-enactor, with a certain vibe, and so I was hoping for the best, but alas-- the minor detail in her delivery you remark on, among other things. Ah, well, I long ago gave up on my quixotic desire to hear someone cover Lead Belly (be they black, white, or green) and do any real justice to whatever piece of his that had the misfortune of falling into their earnest but maladroit hot little hands. (To give you an idea of where I'm coming from, my previous handle on UA-cam, eBay, and a raft-load of other internetz forums, etc. was "Dekalb Blues"... this being an interlingual pun: "qalb" in Arabic is "heart," used by the Sufis in a special sense as referring to one's innermost reality). It's a function of Ledbetter's titanic charismatic effect on world culture that to this day immature/conditioned psyches are strongly but wrongly attracted by it; but they can't deal with his art except to fit it to their simplistic Procrustean beds. Similarly, for instance, there's the case of Joni Mitchell-- a prodigious musical genius, but one who also attracts mimetically-driven dependent souls who feel compelled to favor humanity with cover-versions that are to Joni's powerful originals as a leathery strip of beef jerky is to a sizzling cut of bloody-rare filet mignon fresh from the grill.
+Nuthine Atholl I dunno, I thought Kurt Cobain did a great version of In the Pines back in the day and CCR's Cotton Fields Back Home is a classic. Or The Nields on Goodnight Irene. June did an amazing cover Sam Cooke's Bring It On Home to Me a while back, but this just isn't cutting it.
+Nuthine Atholl jesus a bit wordy...cant you say more with less?
She needs to learn the chords to the chorus.
Fried_Death I totally agree with you.