Talk about ignoring my blog, its been like 6 months. Now I'm trying to talk myself into writing more.
Lyle Lovett kicks ass. No doubt about it. His 1992 album 'Joshua Judges Ruth' is a wonderful disc.
[geek note - Joshua Judges Ruth are the 6th, 7th & 8th books of the old testament]
The album, now 12 years old, might be Lovett's best. A double shot of gospel leads the album off, then it makes a left onto a West Texas highway. You can see the stark landscape slide by as you listen to 'She's Already Made Up Her Mind' and 'North Dakota'.
The last half of the disc is just as strong and possibly more fluid. 'Since The Last Time', 'Baltimore' & 'Family Reserves' make you feel like a fly on the wall in a large farm house at a family reunion. The album ends with 'She's Leaving Me Because She Really Wants To', 'Flyswatter/Ice Water Blues' & 'She Makes Me Feel So Good'; the bad, the long & the good of a relationship.
This album is not in my top 50 yet, but will probably be next time as I rediscovered it after it got burned to the hard drive. A perfect album for Sunday afternoons or weekday mornings on which you don't work.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Sunday, June 13, 2004
tombstone blues
I have many obsessions, one of them is lists. I am a whore for 'list shows' -as my girlfriend calls them- and will do anything to see them, from VH1s Top 100 Disco Songs to Discovery Channels Top 10 Hotels, it doesn't matter. If you rank it, I'll watch it.
So, with that being the case it's obvious that I would rank my top albums of all-time and update the list periodical (every 20 months or so since 1991).
This past April, Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisted" knocked his "Blonde On Blonde" album from the top spot. Both are absolute essentials in any catalog.
You could argue that Dylan is more important to the 60's than the Beatles were. Harrison once said that Dylan would be more remembered in 100 years than the Beatles, or maybe it was 500 years. Without this album maybe Dylan stays folky and disappears with the Kingston Trio when Motown takes over the 60s as rock stars continue to make 3 minute pop songs about love.
The snare drum crack that began the 60's music revolution also changed all the rules. You could have a 6 minute single on the radio, you could write songs that last 11 minutes, you could write songs with titles like "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry." Highway 61 spawned Rubber Soul which spawned Revolver which spawned Pet Sounds to Sgt Peppers and the summer of love. Besides being a great rock album, its also one of the most important discs in rock history. So its only natural that I name this blog after a lyric from this album and the first post if the song from which the lyric comes from.
I just realized that this post went nowhere, only to inform you that Highway 61 is important and thats it. What more could you really want from a first blog post?
So, with that being the case it's obvious that I would rank my top albums of all-time and update the list periodical (every 20 months or so since 1991).
This past April, Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisted" knocked his "Blonde On Blonde" album from the top spot. Both are absolute essentials in any catalog.
You could argue that Dylan is more important to the 60's than the Beatles were. Harrison once said that Dylan would be more remembered in 100 years than the Beatles, or maybe it was 500 years. Without this album maybe Dylan stays folky and disappears with the Kingston Trio when Motown takes over the 60s as rock stars continue to make 3 minute pop songs about love.
The snare drum crack that began the 60's music revolution also changed all the rules. You could have a 6 minute single on the radio, you could write songs that last 11 minutes, you could write songs with titles like "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry." Highway 61 spawned Rubber Soul which spawned Revolver which spawned Pet Sounds to Sgt Peppers and the summer of love. Besides being a great rock album, its also one of the most important discs in rock history. So its only natural that I name this blog after a lyric from this album and the first post if the song from which the lyric comes from.
I just realized that this post went nowhere, only to inform you that Highway 61 is important and thats it. What more could you really want from a first blog post?
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