Atlantic City

Natalie Maines, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite cover one of my favorite Springsteen songs,"Atlantic City".

Atlantic City

Here is Ben Harper's cover of one of my favorite Bruce Springsteen songs, "Atlantic City".

Mother

My last post was of Roger Waters and Eddie Vedder performing "Comfortably Numb", a song originally from Pink Floyd's The Wall album. Here is "Mother", another song off The Wall album, performed by Natalie Maines and Ben Harper. Maines—a Dixie Chick—just released her first solo album, and this is the title track. I am not sure if this is an appropriate song for Mother's Day weekend, but at least it is on topic.

The second song below is a Maines/Vedder duet of the James Taylor song "You Can Close Your Eyes", which I am including because this makes the second post in a row with an Eddie Vedder duet.

I Shall Not Walk Alone

Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama performing "I Shall Not Walk Alone". 

The Blind Boys of Alabama

I went to see the Blind Boys of Alabama—formerly The Five Blind Boys of Alabama—about a week and a half ago, but I have been doing other posts, so I am finally getting around to doing one on them today. In this first video Clarence Fountain discusses the group. Because of his health Fountain no longer tours with the group, but he was one of the founding members in 1939.



Here is the current line up of the group performing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun".



Here they perform "Well, Well, Well" with Ben Harper. This song is from the album they did together, There Will Be a Light.

Sun

Since I did moon songs on Monday, I decided to post sun songs today. I considered trying to have three sun songs and three moon songs each by the same three artists. I think I could have done it, but decided that I would have to stretch too much as far as the songs I included. So I decided not to do that.

But the first sun song is by that same artist that had the first moon song. Here is Cheryl Wheeler with her song "Pointing at the Sun".



Sun song #2: Ben Harper with "She's Only Happy in the Sun".



Sun song #3: Bill Withers performong his song "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone".