Nicolette Larson

It's 12 Years on this very day that Nicolette Larson left us ... to be with the angels


A Tribute To Nicolette Larson
(song : Jackson Browne - For A Dancer [solo acoustic version])



Celebrating Nicolette : A Who's Who of Tribute ...















excerpts of the original Reuters article on her passing back in '97 [Full Article Here]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country-pop singer Nicolette Larson,best known for her hit version of Neil Young's "Lotta Love" in the 1970s, has died at age 45, her publicist said Wednesday.
Publicist Michael Jensen said Larson died Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles from an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the brain.
"We were truly devastated when we heard the news that our friend Nicolette Larson was admitted into the hospital," said Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills & Nash.
The Montana-born Larson released six albums and won several awards, including being named best new vocalist by the Academy of Country Music in 1984.
She began her career when she moved to California at age 21, and shortly afterward landed a job with Hoyt Axton's band. She soon appeared with Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen and became a top backup singer for such solo artists as Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Michael McDonald.
Within five years, Larson was at the top of the pop charts with "Lotta Love," the Neil Young classic. That song propelled Larson's career and her subsequent hits included "Rumba Girl," "Fool Me Again" and "I Only Want to Be With You."
[Full Article Here]

A Tribute to Nicolette Larson: Lotta Love Concert
[BUY TRIBUTE CD HERE]

The "Lotta Love Concert," a tribute to late vocalist Nicolette Larson was staged Feb. 21-22, 1998, at the Santa Monica, CA Civic Auditorium.

The concerts featured performances by Larson's friends and music greats including Crosby, Stills & Nash, Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, Dan Fogelberg, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt with Little Feat, Joe Walsh, The Section and Jimmy Buffett, a number of whom Larson recorded with in her lifetime.

On Thursday, May 21, 1998 Elsie May, then eight-year-old daughter of Nicolette Larson, presented a check for more than $165,000 to the UCLA Children's Hospital. Accompanying her was her father and renowned drummer, Russell Kunkel, and singer Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills & Nash. The check was presented to Dr. Edward McCabe, Physician-in-chief of UCLA Children's Hospital.

audio samplers :
Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love (single edit) [Buy Very Best Of Nicolette Larson HERE]
Jackson Browne - For A Dancer


Lotta Love
(single version, original music video, sound quality - lacking, also be sure to SKIP first 30secs)


Lotta Love
(album version, sound quality - excellent)


Nicolette Larson - A Retrospect
(song : Shadows Of Love)

Drive-By Truckers - Danko/Manuel

title : Danko/Manuel
artist : Drive-By Truckers
year : 2004
chart : Did Not Chart
album : The Dirty South





















about the song:
Written by Jason Isbell, 2003 a a tribute song "for and about a couple members of The Band who are no longer with us." "

Jason Isbell: "When I started writing this one, I wanted to capture some of Levon Helm's feelings about the deaths (and lives) of Richard Manuel and Rick Danko. The longer I worked on the song, the more impossible that became. I felt like the best I could do was to explain my own attitude toward being a working and traveling musician."

Recorded in 2003 by the Drive-By Truckers for the 2004 album The Dirty South.


Danko/Manuel :



lyrics :
Let the night air cool you off.
Tilt your head back and try to cough.
Don't say nothin' about the things you never saw.
Let the night air cool you off.

I ain't livin' like I should.
A little rest might do me good.
Got to sinking in the place where I once stood.
I ain't livin' like I should.

Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold.
Maybe I can only hear it in my head.
Fifteen years ago they owned that road.
Now it's rolling over us instead.

Richard Manuel is dead.

God forbid you call their bluff.
Like the nightmares ain't enough.
Remember when they used to say that we were tough?
God forbid you call their bluff.

First they make you out to be
the only pirate on the sea.
Then they say Danko would have sounded just like me.
"Is that the man you want to be?"

Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold.
Maybe I could make it bigger overseas.
Fifteen years ago they owned that road.
Now it only gives us somewhere else to leave.

Something else you can't believe.

Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold.
Maybe I can hear poor Richard from the grave.
Singing where to reap and when to sow
when you've found another home you have to leave.

Something else you can't believe.

Feature Song : While My Guitar Gently Weeps (more tags)

REF : Feature Song : While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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