Listening
I might be the world’s worst music critic. Most of the time I seek silence rather than background music. But I do love music and when I find a CD or program worth pointing out, it will be here on this page.
September 18, 2005
Dave downloaded Tony’s podcast to CD before we left for the boat. He brought 2 CD’s – the 30th and the 31st show. I think the 31st might be the current week. Here’s the link to The Roadhouse if you don’t already have it. I’ve written about the best blues you’ve never heard before.
I swear, that kid can pick the music. He’s increased the show to an hour now, it was about 40 minutes when he started. He used to talk quite a bit and that was appropriate at the time, but now he loads up the music and kicks back to enjoy. Our 2 hour drive up north and then 2 hours back just flew by while we chair danced in our Vue.
He had a female singer open the 30th show. Dave knows her name – I’m terrible about letting him be the name memory for both of us. When I heard her voice, belting out the blues, I had an immediate vision of Michelle Pieiffer in Fabulous Baker Boys
I probably wasn’t even close, but it was sure enjoyable to sit in a tiny blues club, feeling the sorrow and pain mixed with tricky guitar licks, swing rhythm drums, loose-string big bass and a horn line that just wouldn’t quit. I swear I could smell the smoke and see the blue-gray haze over the group. Thanks, Tony. The RoadHouse gets better every week.
August, 2005:
We listened to Jimmy Buffett’s 2 disc CD Hawaii on the drive to Colorado last week. There is also a DVD included in the set, but we haven’t even tried that yet. We heard some of our old favorites and some new “live” versions of the standard Buffett boater music. You can view all the tracks here and listen to samples.
The concert(s) were done in Oahu and Maui, just one month before we went to Hawaii for the first time in 2004. The music was enough, but recognizing the names of places mentioned during the show was pretty cool. My new favorite: Tiki Bar, which had a familiar sound to it, but I loved it because it had such a swing dance feel to it, even though Jimmy insisted it was jitter bug music. Whatever the facts are, I’ve been chair dancing to the music in my head for 2 weeks now and the song is always the same.
July, 2005:
Have you discovered podcasting yet? One of our sons produces The Roadhouse: the best Blues you never heard. I don’t even really get into the Blues, but I catch myself chair dancing whenever I hear one of his Saturday shows. My husband is the big download king, and he brings the burned copy on our car drives and up on the boat. There are more than 20 shows available at the Roadhouse site.
