There are songs that arrive already sorted out. Clean lines. Clear message. You know where the singer stands by the second verse, and nothing in the bridge is going to change that. And then there are songs that sound more like a man sitting at a kitchen table early in the morning, coffee going cold,ContinueContinue reading “Hearing a Soul Mid-Sentence”
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Ivan & Alyosha – Running For Cover (Live on KEXP) – YouTube
We (The Plain Travelers) heard this band with the odd name of Ivan & Alyosha back in the mid-2010s at a club in Austin called The Parish. I’m rediscovering them today, and this tune, “Running for Cover” has some heavy lyrics wherein I’m hearing about a garden, a fall, and taking the blame… If IContinueContinue reading “Ivan & Alyosha – Running For Cover (Live on KEXP) – YouTube”
“Baby, time meant nothing, anything seemed real…”
Just watched Peter Bogdanovich’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” the documentary on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. It’s a long, winding look at a life spent chasing music, chasing dreams, and somehow keeping your feet on the ground while the world’s lights are flashing all around you. There’s something quietly moving in watching someone pour themselves intoContinueContinue reading ““Baby, time meant nothing, anything seemed real…””
U2 – Love Is Blindness (Edge’s Solo Performance) – YouTube
According to U2 lore, “Love Is Blindness” captures some of the emotions of guitarist The Edge’s divorce back when the band were in the studio making Achtung Baby. This excerpt of the man himself playing an acoustic version is particularly poignant. Taken from the From The Sky Down documentary, 2011.
Más: Futility in a Catchy Beat
I discovered Kinky’s “Más” this morning on a music subreddit, after spending most of the night with fever, sneezing, and coughing as this flu bug peaked. Chasing one last tissue, one extra dose of medicine, always one more something that never quite satisfied, the song caught me and held me, its repeated más echoing my restless state.ContinueContinue reading “Más: Futility in a Catchy Beat”
Veni. Vidi. Scripsi. 