It used to be a pain to try and listen to tracks of a CD. I never had the right player, or the right version of the player. In time, I gave up, doing my sample listening elsewhere.
Today, I checked out the Alison Krauss/Robert Plant album Raising Sand (see previous post for one of the tracks), and found that when I clicked on ‘listen to samples’, it took me right to track 1 where I could indeed hear it. Kudos for a much-needed feature!
Just the thing for a sleepy afternoon when there are a thousand things to be done, not counting the taxes.
Listening to Queen Latifah’s version now, also have Nina Simone’s. The song was written by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, who wasn’t always a screamer. But during a session which turned into a drunken party, the direction of the song changed. Then he discovered that the wilder version got lots more attention. His performances inspired the shock-rock acts of Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Black Sabbath, Ted Nugent and others.
Here’s the song, don’t know the origin of the video. Gaze out the window instead, if you have one.
