Spanish Johnny Paroles Traduction Française

Emmylou Harris Spanish Johnny written by Paul Siebel
Emmylou Harris Johnny espagnol écrit par Paul Siebel
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Ricky Skaggs Mandolin
Mandoline Ricky Skaggs
Rodney Crowell Guitar
Rodney Crowell Guitare
Emmylou Harris Guitar, Vocals
Emmylou Harris Guitare, Chant
Waylon Jennings Vocals
Voix de Waylon Jennings
Mickey Raphael Harmonica
Harmonica Mickey Raphaël
Emory Gordy Bass
Emory Gordy basse
Frank Reckard Guitar
Frank Reckard Guitare
John Ware drums
Batterie John Ware
Those other years, the dusty years
Ces autres années, les années poussiéreuses
We drove the big herds through
Nous avons fait passer les grands troupeaux
I tried to forget the miles we rode
J'ai essayé d'oublier les kilomètres que nous avons parcourus
And Spanish Johnny too
Et l'espagnol Johnny aussi
He'd sit beside a water ditch when all this herd was in
Il s'asseyait près d'un fossé d'eau quand tout ce troupeau était là.
And he'd never harm a child but sing to his mandolin
Et il ne ferait jamais de mal à un enfant mais chanterait sur sa mandoline
The old talk, the old ways, and the dealin' of our game
Le vieux discours, les vieilles méthodes et la façon dont notre jeu se déroule
Spanish Johnny never spoke, but sing a song of Spain
Johnny espagnol n'a jamais parlé, mais chante une chanson d'Espagne
And his talk with men was vicious talk
Et ses paroles avec les hommes étaient des paroles vicieuses
When he was drunk on gin
Quand il était ivre de gin
Ah, but those were golden things he said to his mandolin
Ah, mais c'étaient des choses en or qu'il disait à sa mandoline
We had to stand, we tried to judge,
Nous avons dû nous lever, nous avons essayé de juger,
We had to stop him then
Nous avons dû l'arrêter alors
For the hand so gentle to a child had killed so many men
Car la main si douce envers un enfant avait tué tant d'hommes
He died a hard death long ago before the roads come in
Il est mort d'une mort difficile il y a bien longtemps avant que les routes n'arrivent
And the night before he swung he sung to his mandolin
Et la nuit avant de se balancer, il a chanté sur sa mandoline
Well, we carried him out in the mornin' sun
Eh bien, nous l'avons transporté sous le soleil du matin
A man that done no good
Un homme qui n'a rien fait de bon
And we lowered him down in the cold clay
Et nous l'avons déposé dans l'argile froide
Stuck in a cross of wood
Coincé dans une croix de bois
And a letter he wrote to his kinfolk
Et une lettre qu'il a écrite à ses proches
To tell them where he'd been
Pour leur dire où il était
And we shipped it out to Mexico,
Et nous l'avons expédié au Mexique,
Along with his mandolin
Avec sa mandoline
From Emmylou Harris "Evangeline"
De Emmylou Harris "Évangéline"
Warner Bros Records
Enregistrements Warner Bros.
Two Ten Music(BMI)
Deux dix musiques (IMC)
Though other performers sold more records and earned greater fame, few
Bien que d’autres artistes aient vendu plus de disques et acquis une plus grande renommée, peu d’entre eux
left as profound an impact on contemporary music as Emmylou Harris.
a laissé un impact aussi profond sur la musique contemporaine qu'Emmylou Harris.
Blessed with a crystalline voice, a remarkable gift for phrasing and a
Doté d'une voix cristalline, d'un don remarquable pour le phrasé et d'un
restless creative spirit, she travelled a singular artistic path,
Esprit créatif agité, elle a parcouru un chemin artistique singulier,
proudly carrying the torch of "Cosmic American music" passed down by
portant fièrement le flambeau de la « Cosmic American music » transmis par
her mentor, Gram Parsons. With the exception of only Neil Young -- not
son mentor, Gram Parsons. À l'exception de Neil Young seulement -- pas
surprisingly an occasional collaborator -- no other mainstream star
étonnamment, un collaborateur occasionnel – aucune autre star grand public
established a similarly large body of work as consistently
a établi un corpus de travail tout aussi important, de manière cohérente
iconoclastic, eclectic or daring; even more than three decades into
iconoclaste, éclectique ou audacieux ; même plus de trois décennies après
her career, Harris' latter-day music remained as heartfelt, visionary
sa carrière, la musique contemporaine de Harris est restée aussi sincère et visionnaire
and vital as her earliest recordings.
et aussi vital que ses premiers enregistrements.
Harris was born on April 2, 1947 to a military family stationed in
Harris est né le 2 avril 1947 dans une famille de militaires stationnés à
Birmingham, Alabama. After spending much of her childhood in North
Birmingham, Alabama. Après avoir passé une grande partie de son enfance dans le Nord
Carolina, she moved to Woodbridge, Virginia while in her teens, and
Carolina, elle a déménagé à Woodbridge, en Virginie, alors qu'elle était adolescente, et
graduated high school there as her class valedictorian. After winning
là-bas, elle a obtenu son diplôme d'études secondaires en tant que major de sa classe. Après avoir gagné
a dramatic scholarship at the University of North Carolina, she began
une bourse d'études dramatiques à l'Université de Caroline du Nord, elle a commencé
to seriously study music, learning to play songs by Bob Dylan and Joan
étudier sérieusement la musique, apprendre à jouer des chansons de Bob Dylan et Joan
Baez. Soon, Harris was performing in a duo with fellow UNC student
Baez. Bientôt, Harris se produisait en duo avec un autre étudiant de l'UNC.
Mike Williams, eventually quitting school to move to New York, only to
Mike Williams, qui a finalement quitté l'école pour déménager à New York, seulement pour
find the city's folk music community dying out in the wake of the
découvrez que la communauté musicale folk de la ville s'éteint à la suite de la
psychedelic era.
ère psychédélique.
Still, Harris remained in New York, travelling the Greenwich Village
Pourtant, Harris est resté à New York, parcourant Greenwich Village
club circuit before becoming a regular at Gerdes Folk City, where she
circuit des clubs avant de devenir une habituée de Gerdes Folk City, où elle
struck up friendships with fellow folkies Jerry Jeff Walker, David
noué des amitiés avec d'autres compatriotes Jerry Jeff Walker, David
Bromberg and Paul Siebel. After marrying songwriter Tom Slocum in
Bromberg et Paul Siebel. Après avoir épousé l'auteur-compositeur Tom Slocum en
1969, she recorded her debut LP, 1970's Gliding Bird. Shortly after
En 1969, elle enregistre son premier LP, Gliding Bird des années 1970. Peu de temps après
the record's release, however, Harris' label declared bankruptcy, and
Cependant, après la sortie du disque, le label de Harris a déclaré faillite et
while pregnant with her first child, her marriage began to fall apart.
alors qu'elle était enceinte de son premier enfant, son mariage a commencé à s'effondrer.
After moving to Nashville, she and Slocum divorced, leaving Harris to
Après avoir déménagé à Nashville, elle et Slocum ont divorcé, laissant Harris
raise daughter Hallie on her own. After several months of struggle and
élever seule sa fille Hallie. Après plusieurs mois de lutte et
poverty, she moved back in with her parents, who had since bought a
pauvreté, elle est retournée vivre chez ses parents, qui avaient depuis acheté un
farm outside of Washington, D.C.
ferme à l'extérieur de Washington, D.C.
There she returned to performing, starting a trio with local musicians
Là, elle est revenue au spectacle et a formé un trio avec des musiciens locaux.
Gerry Mule and Tom Guidera. One evening in 1971, while playing at an
Gerry Mule et Tom Guidera. Un soir de 1971, alors qu'il jouait dans un
area club called Clyde's, the trio performed to a crowd which included
club de la région appelé Clyde's, le trio s'est produit devant une foule comprenant
members of the country-rock pioneers the Flying Burrito Brothers. In
membres des pionniers du country-rock les Flying Burrito Brothers. Dans
the wake of the departure of Gram Parsons, the band's founder, the
au lendemain du départ de Gram Parsons, le fondateur du groupe, le
Burritos were then led by ex-Byrd Chris Hillman, who was so impressed
Les burritos étaient alors dirigés par l'ex-Byrd Chris Hillman, qui était tellement impressionné
by Harris' talents that he considered inviting her to join the group.
par les talents de Harris qu'il envisagea de l'inviter à rejoindre le groupe.
Instead, Hillman himself quit to join Stephen Stills' Manassas, but he
Au lieu de cela, Hillman lui-même a démissionné pour rejoindre Manassas de Stephen Stills, mais il
recommended her to Parsons, who wanted a female vocalist to flesh out
l'a recommandée à Parsons, qui voulait une chanteuse pour étoffer
the sound of his solo work, a trailblazing fusion of country and rock
le son de son
'n' roll he dubbed "Cosmic American music." Their connection was
instant, and soon Harris was learning about country music and singing
harmony on Parsons' solo debut, 1972's GP. A tour with Parsons'
back-up unit the Fallen Angels followed, and in 1973 they returned to
the studio to cut his landmark LP Grievous Angel.
On September 19, just weeks after the album sessions ended, Parsons'
fondness for drugs and alcohol finally caught up to him, and he was
found dead in a hotel room outside of the Joshua Tree National
Monument in California. At the time, Harris was back in Washington,
collecting her daughter for a planned move to the West Coast. Instead,
she remained in D.C., reuniting with Tom Guidera to form the Angel
Band. The group signed to Reprise and relocated to Los Angeles to
begin work on Harris' solo major label debut, 1975's acclaimed Pieces
of the Sky, an impeccable collection made up largely of diverse covers
ranging in origin from Merle Haggard to the Beatles. Produced by Brian
Ahern, who would go on to helm Harris' next ten records--as well as
becoming her second husband--Pieces of the Sky's second single, a
rendition of the Louvin Brothers' "If I Could Only Win Your Love,"
became her first Top Five hit. "Light of the Stable,' a Christmas
single complete with backing vocals from Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt
and Neil Young, soon followed; Harris then repaid the favor by singing
on Ronstadt's "The Sweetest Gift" and Young's "Star of Bethlehem."
For her second LP, 1976's Elite Hotel, Harris established a new
backing unit, the Hot Band, which featured legendary Elvis Presley
sidemen James Burton and Glen D. Hardin as well as a young songwriter
named Rodney Crowell on back-up vocals and rhythm guitar. The
resulting album proved to be a smash, with covers of Buck Owens'
"Together Again" and the Patsy Cline perennial "Sweet Dreams" both
topping the charts. Before beginning sessions for her third effort,
1977's Luxury Liner, Harris guested on Bob Dylan's Desire and appeared
in Martin Scorsese's filmed document of the Band's legendary final
performance, The Last Waltz. Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town followed
in 1978, led by the single "Two More Bottles of Wine," her third
Number One. The record was Crowell's last with the Hot Band; one of
the tracks, "Green Rolling Hills," included backing from Ricky Skaggs,
soon to become Crowell's replacement as Harris' vocal partner.
1979's Blue Kentucky Girl was her most country-oriented work to date,
an indication of what was to come a year later with Roses in the Snow,
a full-fledged excursion into acoustic bluegrass. In the summer of
1980, a duet with Roy Orbison, "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again," hit
the Top Ten; a yuletide LP, Light of the Stable: The Christmas Album,
followed at the end of year, at a time during which Harris had quit
touring to focus on raising her second daughter, Meghann. Evangeline,
a patchwork of songs left off of previous albums, appeared in 1981.
Shortly after, Skaggs left the Hot Band to embark on a solo career;
his replacement was Barry Tashian, a singer/songwriter best known for
fronting the 1960s rock band the Remains.
In 1982, drummer John Ware, the final holdover from the first Hot Band
line-up, left the group; at the same time, Harris' marriage to Ahern
was also beginning to disintegrate. After 1981's Cimarron, Harris and
the Hot Band cut a live album, Last Date, named in honor of the
album's chart-topping single "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date," a
vocal version of the Floyd Cramer instrumental. Quickly, they returned
to the studio to record White Shoes, Harris' final LP with Ahern at
the helm. Her most far-ranging affair yet, it included covers of Donna
Summer's "On the Radio," Johnny Ace's "Pledging My Love," and Sandy
Denny's "Old-Fashioned Waltz."
After leaving Ahern, she and her children moved back to Nashville.
There, Harris joined forces with singer/songwriter Paul Kennerley, on
whose 1980 concept album The Legend of Jesse James she had sung
back-up. Together, they began formulating a record called The Ballad
of Sally Rose, employing the pseudonym Harris often used on the road
to veil what was otherwise a clearly autobiographical portrait of her
own life. Though a commercial failure, the 1985 record proved pivotal
in Harris' continued evolution as an artist and a risk-taker; it also
marked another chapter in her personal life when she and Kennerley wed
shortly after concluding their tour. Angel Band, a subtle, acoustic
collection of traditional country spirituals, followed, although the
record was not issued until 1987, after the release of its immediate
follow-up, Thirteen.
Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt had first toyed with the idea
of recording an album together as far back as 1977, only to watch the
project falter in light of touring commitments and other red tape.
Finally, in 1987, they issued Trio, a collection which proved to be
Harris' best-selling album to date, generating the hits "To Know Him
Is to Love Him" (a cover of the Phil Spector classic), "Telling Me
Lies" and "Those Memories of You." The record's success spurred the
1990 release of Duets, a compilation of her earlier hits in
conjunction with George Jones, Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons and others.
Fronting a new band, the Nash Ramblers, in 1992 she issued At the
Ryman, a live set recorded at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium,
the former home of the Grand Ole Opry. At the time of the record's
release, Harris was also serving a term as President of the Country
Music Foundation.
In 1993, she ended her long association with Warner Bros./Reprise to
move to Asylum Records, where she released Cowgirl's Prayer shortly
after her separation from Paul Kennerley. Two years later, at a stage
in her career at which most performers retreat to the safety of
rehashing their greatest hits again and again, Harris issued Wrecking
Ball, perhaps her most adventuresome record to date. Produced by
Daniel Lanois, the New Orleans-based artist best known for his
atmospheric work with U2, Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan, Wrecking Ball
was a hypnotic, staggeringly beautiful work comprised of songs ranging
from the Neil Young-penned title track (which featured its writer on
backing vocals) to Jimi Hendrix's "May This Be Love" and the talented
newcomer Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl." A three-disc retrospective of
her years with Warner Bros., Portraits, appeared in 1996, and in 1998
Harris resurfaced with Spyboy. -- Jason Ankeny, All-Music Guide