"Lilac Wine" (Piano Blog performance)

[dededom]

Thanks to GJ you can download an audio track of Damien's Studio Blog piano performance of "Lilac Wine"

www.megaupload.com/?d=P7NG7071

[gj]

Some background on the song

"Lilac Wine" is a song written by James Shelton. It was covered by Nina Simone on her album Wild Is The Wind (1966), was a solo hit by Elkie Brooks and appeared on her album Pearls and later by Jeff Buckley on his début album Grace (1994). More recently, the song was covered by Katie Melua on her debut album Call Off the Search (2003).

Buckley considered Simone's to be the definitive interpretation of the song, stating, "I've only heard Nina Simone's...And that's the only one that matters. There's one by Eartha Kitt. There's one by Elkie Brooks, which I've never, ever heard. There's another one. They've done it, but Nina does it best. That's the end all of it. That's the be all end all version. She's the king."

The only artist to have major chart success with the song was Elkie Brooks in 1978 and the song remains closely associated with her, especially in the UK.

Nina Simone www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOe0WDXoUzI
Elkie Brooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaJykabTxjU
Katie Melua www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucf02BWSkfw
Jeff Buckley www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DqZAXQqoag
Damien Leith www.damienleith.com.au/musicbox/home.do?bcpid=769761014&bclid=769369439&bctid=987399358

[Trilly]

I currently have audio gremlins again (uuurrrgh!) so Roxy very kindly played this for me over the phone..let's just say I was in floods of tears listening. I adore this! Thanks guys, and a huge thankyou to D.

and thanks gj for the other artists versions too.