Sometimes I hear a recording and it really makes me want to see and hear the song preformed live. “Always” is a duet on Shea Seger’s album The May Street Project. Ron Sexsmith takes the first verse. It’s special. Seger comes in. And it’s a great shift in tone. The recoding is way cool. But I want it to be late, in a dark club. Bricks. Heavy Curtains. Underground. It’s a small room. It’s perfectly crowded. It sounds good in there. A four piece band and the two of them. Their voices perfect and naked out in front of the band. I want it to be one of those magic, selfish moments. Live.
Archive for February, 2012
Shea Seger “Always” with Ron Sexsmith
Paul Simon “Dazzling Blue”
Well, I have been hankering down and missing in action for a couple of months. On one level, I have been ridiculously spinning wheels with too much to do. On another level, Lillie has been killing it and it’s as fun to watch as it is to play. I think I might make a playlist out of Lillie’s breakup song list and party with it once a month, just to remind myself I am alive. I am going to re-read Lillie’s 30th birthday post every birthday I have this decade, just to remind myself how insanely weird it was to turn thirty. Maybe think about how it should really never have been as big a deal as the universe sets it up to be. And maybe think about the simple sweet things in life, just like Lillie does. Ah, music. The best drug. I was gifted “Dazzling Blue” by Paul Simon back in October and I rode it’s leisurely downstream pitter patter right through every intense moment of the holidays. It gives life this mellow twilight feeling, and it reminds me of the evening Lillie describes. Haha. It’s February and I am still using “Dazzling Blue” to relax.