Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Talk to Me of Mendocino (Caffe Lena, 1990)

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Kate and Anna McGarrigle perform Kate's "Talk to Me of Mendocino" at Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY (1990).

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@brendanseanbarry 14 жыл бұрын

This song comes from a strange zone where intense joy and sadness seem to co-exist inseparably. I believe that it is one of the greatest songs ever recorded.

@kinkle_Z 7 жыл бұрын

wow...me too. we're in a weird demographic of about 100 people on earth. amazing!!

@benoitmorin7182 3 жыл бұрын

Totally true!

@anthonybrown6439 3 жыл бұрын

Why do I well up and admire in equal measures every time I listen to this song. And I have been listening for a very long time.It gets right into your heart and your soul, it's eternal.

@anthonybrown6439 Жыл бұрын

I can't listen to this without choking up, I may have listened to it hundreds of times and I think I will as long as I live.

@munsterfloyd 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect. RIP Kate.

@bluealan49 14 жыл бұрын

Their debut album is so much a part of my early married life and can still make my eyes fill.Happy, bitter sweet memories of a different time.RIP Kate

@fewerbeansplease 4 жыл бұрын

This song really points out the utter irrelevancy of the hit parade and the music industry in general. It is part of the legacy of mankind.

@christopherstubbs9333 Жыл бұрын

I love this so much ❤️

@kinkle_Z 7 жыл бұрын

Listen to Anna's harmony...perfect and exquisite. Kate was so lucky to have a sister like that!!

@jamestaylor1923 Жыл бұрын

Some words when set to music have an ability to make a tear fall . This doesn't miss.

@brendanseanbarry 14 жыл бұрын

When everything else has crumbled back into the earth, this song will remain standing, shining out across the oceans.

@michaelz-c4178 Жыл бұрын

and so too will this comment

@williammorris4094 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. Bill

@Phil72099 5 жыл бұрын

They have wonderful songs and style. I discovered them thirty some yeas ago from a friend in southern Indiana. Love their music and legacy.

@tucanoman 14 жыл бұрын

many memories of past afternoons . . . R.I.P. Kate

@cheryllaguardia931 Жыл бұрын

I saw them at Cafe Lena in the late 80's and it was unforgettable. Their singing was magical, so complex, yet so pure. Never heard anything quite like it before or since.

@Feacharis 14 жыл бұрын

RIP Kate. Thanks for the beautiful songs and music.

@brucebryson9423 11 жыл бұрын

Makes me cry every time I watch but I cannot stop. So beautiful.

@kinkle_Z 4 жыл бұрын

Lena Spencer -- We All LOVED YOU!

@KMGDA49 14 жыл бұрын

So beautiful both song and singers. Rest in Peace Kate. Thank you.

@roypreston8649 3 жыл бұрын

I cry everytime i hear it

@tinmiloutin 14 жыл бұрын

Deux anges ensemble! Je suis triste, Kate! Merci pour tout ce que tu as apporté dans ma vie!

@hcb1187 5 жыл бұрын

only sisters can harmonise like this

@michaellennon195 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful - Juann

@vazmo14850 10 жыл бұрын

oh anna...what a song you wrote.....after all these years it still breaks my heart....

@beldengi 6 жыл бұрын

vazmo14850: I believe Kate wrote this one, but Anna wrote the brilliant Heart Like a Wheel. Both songs are on their 1975 LP with songwriting credits as above.

@kinkle_Z 5 жыл бұрын

Kate did write this one. Anna never lived in New York, but I did with Kate. This is Kate.

@petervankan1 14 жыл бұрын

Brings back the seventies. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you.

@joaidane 10 жыл бұрын

It is amazing to listen to this version vs. that on the original Kate & Anna and then the ones on the Demo CD from "Tell My Sister". All so different, all so beautiful. The original demo has a brash Kate ready to take on the world. (and not a peep from Anna!) The released version (K & A first album) is much like this one, but with the "full orchestra background" somewhat muting the girls. This one here has to my mind a mellowed Kate and a luminous Anna. A life trajectory, ending with footage as desolate and eerily prescient as any that could have been imagined.

@beerstudd76 14 жыл бұрын

I just heard this (probably this version) on CBC this morning. Stunning. Truly stunning.

@qimissung 14 жыл бұрын

@brendanseanbarry Wow, you managed to capture the true essence of this lovely song, not an easy feat. Well done, well done, a lovely tribute to these amazing singers and songwriters. RIP Kate McGarrigle. Thank you for filling this tired old world with your human version of a songbird at the dawning.

@riarunkee 14 жыл бұрын

And let the sun set on the ocean I will watch it from the shore Let the sun rise over the redwoods I'll rise with it till I rise no more Thanks Kate for your inspired voice and words. Rest in Peace.

@shivanet 14 жыл бұрын

adieu kate. requiescat in pace.

@eichberg12 14 жыл бұрын

Erst die traurige Nachricht von Kates Tod machte mich mit den einzigartigen Schwestern McGarrigle bekannt. Ihre Musik- welch ein Schatz! Dieses zarte, wehmütige und hinreißende Lied berührt meine Seele. Es ist unvergänglich und wird bei mir sein immer und immer und immer... Mendocino im August 2009 ist unvergessen.

@tasscat 14 жыл бұрын

I wish I hadn't watched it, it hurts too much.

@richardwilson1234 13 жыл бұрын

beautiful music

@kinkle_Z 4 жыл бұрын

I loved helping Lena in the 70s....loved Loudon crashing in my Saratoga Springs bed, me misaligned loving both...Kate...and Loudon...yet of course always most mindful of Kate///sweet, beautiful Kate. I love you and miss you Kate. BTW...your kids, who I watched being born, could care less about me....

@mjemigh3304 10 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Nice tribute, as well.

@DouggMacKenzie 14 жыл бұрын

My heart is broken... I'll miss you forever, dear Kate.....

@jstmull 14 жыл бұрын

Great as usual. Enough said.

@girlborough 11 жыл бұрын

Beautiful...

@johneunson 14 жыл бұрын

how well i remember this song from the first album. this achingly sad song about missing home, is so beautiful. the album was not a big seller until rolling stone magazine voted it 'album of the year', the rest is history. and now the lovely kate has gone. i am so glad she lived to see her children become super stars. kate we will miss you so much.

@williammorris4094 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, I would love to go , Bill

@ewoudsanders2 13 жыл бұрын

Een van de mooiste nummers die ik ken. Wel is de studio-uitvoering nog mooier! Ewoud Sanders

@EricTaub 14 жыл бұрын

Lena's figured large in my life in the early Seventies. More memories.

@kinkle_Z 7 жыл бұрын

Lena was that crochety, kindly older actress in Saratoga Springs, NY who owned the Caffe Lena. We made great cannoli in the kitchen and she LOVED to play Scrabble all day long. You would not believe our open mike nights - with Arlo Guthrie, Spalding Gray, Bob Dylan, Don McLean, Pete Seeger, Kate and Roma (later Anna), Loudon Wainwright, Utah Phillips, Rosalie Sorrells, etc...that was around 1971.

@kinkle_Z 7 жыл бұрын

The song wasn't written "for" Lena but Kate's experiences in upper NY state, like mine, were awesome. It was so beautiful then. It was something to bow down to and then flow all the way to the Pacific over. One of my top favorite songs of all time for the last 50 years. Kate was strikingly beautiful in her 20s, sophisticated, damn! she could play Joseph Spence much better than I, more worldly, and she had a recent masters degree in mathematics. I remember being in awe of her - sitting across from her mid-afternoon at Lena's when the club was closed- both of us playing D-bass Bahamian tunes. She was a genius!

@labora4best 14 жыл бұрын

@tucanoman RIP is there for all of us. In the mean time...JUST MAKE IT! Bernard

@kaarekjohnsen 11 жыл бұрын

Please upload it in 720p!

@michaelz-c4178 4 жыл бұрын

06/02/2020: 'i'll rise with it till i rise no more' i think of Howland, of Cowan, those poor children.

@tucanoman 12 жыл бұрын

Trust me I'm making it just fine here. As I said, with respect, R.I.P.Kate.

@Blacklamass 14 жыл бұрын

So Sad with the news today.

@Bobjb999 14 жыл бұрын

@grondinca1 Hey, I said nothing mean towards Rufus! I did not claim he's less talented than Anna or Kate. I only state my own idiosyncratic, subjective preference, is all. I make no broader judgment than that. If I say I like the taste of herring but not herring roe, I'm not claiming the roe 's less nutritious or a poorer quality food, I'm just stating a taste preference! It's just that I can't stomach Rufus's singing style or his sweeping , arching melodies (herring roe)!

@kinkle_Z 7 жыл бұрын

As someone who knew Kate in her 20s, playing music with her, and then, about 4 years ago, going to a local concert with Rufus and Martha - Sorry but it was the difference between Night and Day. Kate and Anna were the pinnacles...sadly their progeny were ...rather...average...

@tucanoman 12 жыл бұрын

Well I guess we could have predicted your opinions about Rufus given your nom-de-plume, beerstud. I'm sure he's losing sleep over that one . . .

@kinkle_Z 5 жыл бұрын

Anna - shy, timid Montreal secretary...and an incredible song writer! No...I know Kate wrote this. I was there! But Kate sang Anna's songs in the Village, like with Roma Barron, before Anna, before Loudon... I was there...

@kinkle_Z 7 жыл бұрын

Linda Rondstad is to [[Kate and Anna]] like Judy Collins is to [[Joni Mitchell]]. (actual artists highlighted.)

@kinkle_Z 7 жыл бұрын

My first intro to Anna was through Kate and Roma playing at Nobody's in the village in 1969. I wrote down every word I could remember and played their songs on my guitar. Does anybody have the full lyrics to "The Pronoun Song"?

@joaidane 6 жыл бұрын

I imagine that is as about as early as anyone could have heard Kate performing on a stage. My personal recollection of Kate and Anna is somewhere between 71 & 73. Only have a range since I know where I was working when I first heard them. Made me a die hard fan from day one.

@Bobjb999 14 жыл бұрын

Who could possibly dislike this song of Kate's? Sorry Rufus, I know you try hard, but I'll take the music of your Mom & Aunt over yours any day!

@kinkle_Z 7 жыл бұрын

Well....duh...I'm sure he would agree...

@suesjoy 6 жыл бұрын

Hermesacat that’s not really necessary to say. Even if you feel that why, why slag off her son like that? She had a tremendous influence on his writing. It’s not a competition, jeez. I discovered The McGarrigle Sisters through Rufus. I love the entire Wainwright/McGarrigle family catalog of music. Incredibly underrated songwriters, every one of them.

@christopherstubbs9333 Жыл бұрын

I do so agree. I love Kate and Anna's version and it's one of my favourite songs. However I really dislike Rufus Wainwright's voice. It is horrible and rasping. So sorry to have to say this😢

@maureenmartin4730 Жыл бұрын

Not their nicest rendering of this lovely song but ok

@Pravda_Z 3 жыл бұрын

I bet Anna, who wrote some of the greatest songs, (even when it was 'Kate and Roma' before Anna) was so proud of her sister writing this incredible GEM! I took that journey with her...to Saratoga and Lena's in that same period...even jamming D base Bahamian with her at Lena's. She was amazing!