>i gots mad respect for your knowledge <P>Why, thank you <img src="http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/Images/happy.gif"><P>>so i'll just say d' should <BR>>approach Donny very carefully.<P>ANYONE, should approach Donny carefully. I totally agree with ya. I really have no interest in seeing ANYONE cover his material to be honest. his work is just so unbelievable, yet so few heads really know about this brother apart from the Roberta Flack duets.<BR> <BR>>they both kill a rhodes but that's not <BR>>the same as saying he'll do the music justice. i >love d' but i don't see him really <BR>>expresing "For All We Know" or <BR>>"Giving Up" or your choice "Someday <BR>>We'll All Be Free" quite yet. <P>I have to agree with you, I was just thinking out loud. I'm gonna start a Donny thread in the Lesson one of these days, but there are few vocalisst that reach the depth of expression that Donny did in his songs. I mean "For All We Know" and "A Song for You" are standards that have been covered by everyone from Carmenr McRae to the Temptations to Mel Torme. But Donny makes the songs that he perfroms his own in a way that very few artists in the last twenty years have been able to do. For example "Nina Simone/Weldon Irvine's "To Be Young Gifted and Black". Now I love me some Nina and she puts work in on her song no doubt, but for me Donny's rendition is the official version. "Giving up", whew!! Don't get me started on that one. I can go on forever about Donny. But I do feel that D'Ang, while definitewly not where Donny was showed me something with his cover of "heaven Must Be Like This" peep my post about that song.<P>>It's like he hasn't been in THAT place that Donny >opened up for you with his music (and life). <P>Again, I don't know, "Heaven Must Be Like This" put me in that place that Donny puts me in with "Someday We'll All be Free" and Stevie puts me with "Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away", but overall I'll agree. And Voodoo is a much diffeent vibe from "Everything is Everything" and "Extension of a Man". <P>>Now put him on "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" >first? Say hells yeah and put me up front. He >might have to prove it to me on Donny's heavier >stuff. Feel me?<P>I feel ya! I would love to hear him sing that (I hereby rescind my request for "Someday We'll All Be Free") although Donny's will always be the "official" version<P>"Let's take a long walk around the park after dark." - Jill Scott

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