Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist, was born on November 17, 1938 (d. 2023). #GordonLightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot - "If You Could Read My Mind" (Gordon Lightfoot) (1974, Midnight Special)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultSSgGBkgg

Joan Baez - "Nasty Man" (Joan Baez) (2017)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQ7N9lEl_E

George Harrison and Eric Clapton performing the best version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
(Japan Live 1993)

https://youtu.be/ezd7fRvJgtc

#CoSoMusic

I only posted this - again - so I could pin the toot-:)

someone might have posted this here already but a reminder doesn’t hurt 📚 ❤️

Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer, named in 2009 by Billboard magazine "the second greatest jazz artist of the decade (2000–2009)" (Wikipedia), was born on Nov. 16th. #DianaKrall

Diana Krall w/ Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson (the composer of the song) - "Crazy" (Willie Nelson) (2003, The Beacon Theatre, NYC)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PI_SverY0w

Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer, named in 2009 by Billboard magazine "the second greatest jazz artist of the decade (2000–2009)" (Wikipedia), was born on Nov. 16th. #DianaKrall

Diana Krall - "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) (2008, Live in Rio)
#Music #CoSoMusic #Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-G3vJkJrgg

Hubert Sumlin, Chicago blues guitarist and singer, member of Howlin' Wolf's band, "ranked number 43 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (Wikipedia), was born on Nov. 16, 1931 (d. 2011). #HubertSumlin

Blues Lesson (posted on Dec. 5, 2011, by Guitar World in his honour the day after he died)
#Music #CoSoMusic #Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfL6Yhq-RZY

Hubert Sumlin, Chicago blues guitarist and singer, member of Howlin' Wolf's band, "ranked number 43 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (Wikipedia), was born on Nov. 16, 1931 (d. 2011). #HubertSumlin

"Living the Blues" with Hubert Sumlin
#Music #CoSoMusic #Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uljcbObxSOQ

Hubert Sumlin, Chicago blues guitarist and singer, member of Howlin' Wolf's band, "ranked number 43 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (Wikipedia), was born on Nov. 16, 1931 (d. 2011). #HubertSumlin

Howlin' Wolf w/ Hubert Sumlin - "Smokestack Lightning" (Chester Burnett [Howlin' Wolf]) (1964)
#Music #CoSoMusic #Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDjD_UdJYs

Eddie Condon, American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader, a "leading figure in Chicago jazz" [who] "also played piano and sang" (Wikipedia), was born on Nov. 16, 1905 (d. 1973). #EddieCondon

Eddie Condon Combo (1952, aboard the USS WASP)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWpGY_3TtU

W. C. Handy, American composer and musician, "one of the most influential songwriters in the United States" (Wikipedia), was born on Nov. 16, 1873 (d. 1958). #WCHandy

W. C. Handy - "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) (1949, The Ed Sullivan Show)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuTTSOctGw

@UmbaSaffire That's great.

A favourite cover from Dion:
"Abraham, Martin and John" (originally released 1968), written by Dick Holler
#CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGB263WibIU

Steve Fossen, American bassist who co-founded (in 1967) the band that would become Heart (Ann Wilson joined in 1971 and Nancy Wilson in 1973) and was a member from 1973 to 1982, was born on Nov. 15, 1949. #SteveFossen

Heart - "Barracuda" (Ann Wilson, Roger Fisher, Nancy Wilson, Michael Derosier) (1978, Cal Jam 2)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QkmmDvkLSI