My wife and I are currently watching the show Nashville on Amazon. All the songs on the show are written by country artists and performed by the cast, and this is one of the best (and most bluesy):
But time is all you seemingly have until you wake up to your real situation!
You are something like, or nothing more than a ballon caught between an indefinable Bright Shining Reality at one end of the room and a fathomless, cold, dark, terrifying "something" at the other end.
A tenuous balance - and no way to survive anyway. You only have that brief instant between the two holes to get it. Until the balloon pops, you have just that much opportunity. So that means life is a very serious business.
That dark terrifying "something" is what controls, and, in some sense, even owns your life. it is profound, and terrible, and great, and beautiful too - all these things.
Hey Derek, I missed the last 2 Wednesdays (much to my regret) but I couldn’t wait till next week for this one. It’s amazing how blues can have a great impact with one guy and a harmonica or an orchestra. Here’s Joe with orchestra: https://youtu.be/LwjWsf4-Lms?si=TFg25Q-ZhQKHbdFg
I just looked at your picture for the first time and it struck me how blues cuts across time and age barriers from an old codger like me to a married couple who look like they’re 16. No offense.
And I agree, Alan. That’s the beauty of all good music or art, right?! Like our Creator intended, the good and beautiful and true indeed transcend time and space. Those things always are.
Such great songs man!
Here is my song for the week. By My Side-Emoni Wilkins. Maybe more Gospel music than blues but I hear blues in it for sure.
https://youtu.be/cRaGbimWF58?si=_9hT6z9cMBOQbfoz
Thanks for the introduction to this beautiful song... I'm in bits here just letting it wash over me!
My wife and I are currently watching the show Nashville on Amazon. All the songs on the show are written by country artists and performed by the cast, and this is one of the best (and most bluesy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjL9W5KfGGU
And, keeping with the showbiz theme, this song (one of my favorite covers) serves as the tune to the opening scenes of the movie RocknRolla:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6UyDz4QBWk
That old John Mayer was truly a blast from the past..!!!
Writing this made me realize how much I truly like that song. It had been so long since I heard it!
But time is all you seemingly have until you wake up to your real situation!
You are something like, or nothing more than a ballon caught between an indefinable Bright Shining Reality at one end of the room and a fathomless, cold, dark, terrifying "something" at the other end.
A tenuous balance - and no way to survive anyway. You only have that brief instant between the two holes to get it. Until the balloon pops, you have just that much opportunity. So that means life is a very serious business.
That dark terrifying "something" is what controls, and, in some sense, even owns your life. it is profound, and terrible, and great, and beautiful too - all these things.
Hey Derek, I missed the last 2 Wednesdays (much to my regret) but I couldn’t wait till next week for this one. It’s amazing how blues can have a great impact with one guy and a harmonica or an orchestra. Here’s Joe with orchestra: https://youtu.be/LwjWsf4-Lms?si=TFg25Q-ZhQKHbdFg
Glad to have you back, Alan! And thanks for being impatient here! This is wonderful!
I just looked at your picture for the first time and it struck me how blues cuts across time and age barriers from an old codger like me to a married couple who look like they’re 16. No offense.
What a kind thing to say! No offense taken! Haha.
And I agree, Alan. That’s the beauty of all good music or art, right?! Like our Creator intended, the good and beautiful and true indeed transcend time and space. Those things always are.