Exploding boundaries with sophisticated vocal weaponry and raw emotion, Diamanda Galás performs GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY; a program of tragic and homicidal love songs and death songs, ranging from O. V. Wright’s EIGHT MEN AND FOUR WOMEN to Timi Yuro’s TIME; from Johnny Cash’s LONG BLACK VEIL to Edith Piaf’s HEAVEN HAVE MERCY. The concert will also include O DEATH by Ralph Stanley.
Diamanda may also include original new songs for this concert that are currently in rehearsal.The current programme features selections from:
- Long Black Veil - M. Wilkens & J. Dill, made famous by Johnny Cash
- I Hear Voices - Screamn' Jay Hawkins
- Heaven Have Mercy - M. Phillippe Gerard & Rick French, made famous by Edith Piaf
- Time/Interlude - George Delarue, made famous by Timi Yuro
- Eight Men and Four Women - O. V. Wright
- Down So Low - Tracy Nelson
- Tony - Diamanda Galás (words & music)
- Baby's Insane - Diamanda Galás
- O Death - Ralph Stanley
- All The Way - made famous by Frank Sinatra
- Autumn Leaves - Joseph Kosma & Johnny Mercer (original lyrics in French by Jacques Prevert)