A friend on Facebook posted a link to Adele – Rolling In The Deep, I watched it and got really hooked. I have played it many times.

I later found a live version of the song at Adele – Rolling In The Deep (Live) (see video below) that I like better.

Just like with Emmylou Harris in Six White Cadillacs, the possibility to listen to the entire song made me go and buy it on iTunes.

Video: Adele – Rolling In The Deep (Live)

I am a fan of Emmylou Harris on Facebook which had a link to Emmylou Harris: Six White Cadillacs on YouTube. It’s a great song (see video below) and after watching it several times I bought the song at iTunes.

I found First Listen: Emmylou Harris, ‘Hard Bargain’, free streaming on NPR of the entire CD, through Timber and Steel.

Free listening is great marketing. I had no intention to buy the CD but after listening several times to the NPR stream of it I ended up buying five more songs (six in all). That would not have happened could I not listen to them first.

Video: Emmylou Harris in “Six White Cadillacs”

I found Rock Me Baby with BB King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Jim Vaughn in a tweet from @Amy Stark. It’s a great tune and performed by several of my favourite musicians.

A friend of mine reminded me of Blue Bayou with Linda Ronstadt. It’s a great song and I love her voice. There’s also a version with Roy Orbison.

Blue Bayou with Linda Ronstadt

I love blues and Norah Jones voice, what can then be better than combining the two?
Norah Jones – All Your Love

I went to YouTube in search for Blues In The Night, a song suggested by a friend of mine.

Blues In The Night from a woman’s point of view: Katie Melua (live AVO Session), there’s a harmonica which I love. I also found Eva Cassidy, Anne Shelton and Ella Fitzgerald (with a sax player).

Blues In The Night from a man’s point of view: Frank Sinatra.

I also found an intrumental version, Blues in the Night, on Tenor Sax.

Katie Melua – Blues In The Night (live AVO Session)

Lyrics

SPOKEN:
I remember when I was a very little girl, our house caught on fire.
I’ll never forget the look on my father’s face as he gathered me up
in his arms and raced through the burning building out to the pavement.
I stood there shivering in my pajamas and watched the whole world go up in flames.
And when it was all over I said to myself, “Is that all there is to a fire”

SUNG:
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball
If that’s all there is

SPOKEN:
And when I was 12 years old, my father took me to a circus, the greatest show on earth.
There were clowns and elephants and dancing bears.
And a beautiful lady in pink tights flew high above our heads.
And so I sat there watching the marvelous spectacle.
I had the feeling that something was missing.
I don’t know what, but when it was over,
I said to myself, “is that all there is to a circus?

SUNG:
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball
If that’s all there is

SPOKEN:
Then I fell in love, head over heels in love, with the most wonderful boy in the world.
We would take long walks by the river or just sit for hours gazing into each other’s eyes.
We were so very much in love.
Then one day he went away and I thought I’d die, but I didn’t,
and when I didn’t I said to myself, “is that all there is to love?”

SUNG:
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing

SPOKEN:
I know what you must be saying to yourselves,
if that’s the way she feels about it why doesn’t she just end it all?
Oh, no, not me. I’m in no hurry for that final disappointment,
for I know just as well as I’m standing here talking to you,
when that final moment comes and I’m breathing my lst breath, I’ll be saying to myself

SUNG:
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball
If that’s all there is

Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Bette Midler