Monday, January 21, 2019

"Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)"

I listened to the second disc of Live at the BBC yester-day and noticed a couple small things.

In "Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)," the "away" in the line "She locked my heart and threw away the keys" is sung with a melisma (E D C), which musically gives something of a sense of the distance the keys were thrown.