Penny Larkins & Carl Pannuzzo: music

• MP3 play whole song, hi-fi (broadband)

We recorded this song because Marina Hurley was being the spearhead for the Troubadour Foundation making a beautiful recording of Joni Mitchell songs.  FYI the launch is the National Folk Festival (Easter in Canberra) on Sunday April 4th at 8pm... 

I love this song because 1) my dad does but 2) because she must have been at a tricky time as an artist.  She would have just been starting that sky-rocket to fame.  We can only imagine therefore what her feelings were at witnessing a fellow artist just standing there playing for his own love of his art.  

That being said tho...why do buskers busk?  So they can sing?  :) 

http://festivalfolk.com/

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I slept last night in a good hotel

I went shopping today for jewels

The wind rushed around in the dirty town 

And the children let out from the schools

I was standin' on a noisy corner

Waitin' for the walking green

Across the street he stood and he played real good

On his clarinet for free

 

Now me i play for fortunes

And those velvet curtain calls

I got a black limousine

And two gentlemen

Escorting me to the halls

And I play if you have the money

Or if your a friend to me

But the one man band by the quick lunch stand

He was playin' real good for free

 

Nobody stopped to hear him

Though he played so sweet and high

They knew he had never been on their TV

So they passed his music by

I meant to go over and ask for a song

Maybe put on a harmony

I heard his refrain as the signal changed

He was playin' real good for free.

(Joni Mitchell)