musical miscellania
May. 17th, 2005 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonAccording to my son (aka photographic memory boy), at some point in the recent past I referred to some music I was enduring as "whiny Jesus jazz." I have no idea what that music was that I was listening to at the time, and I kind of wish I could remember now as the description is somewhat intriguing, in a vaguely unpleasant sort of way.
In a totally different musical mode, Robert Plant and his current band, The Strange Sensation, recently laid down some live tracks while in Austin, and, along with live versions of some cuts from his latest album, Mighty Rearranger, two of them are cowboy-funk versions of "Black Dog" and "When the Levee Breaks." Yow. You can get them now from the iTunes Music Store. If you like Plant, do it. No, really.
My partner, a huge Robert Plant fan (I knew on our first date she was cool because she knew the words to all the Led Zep songs...) just induced me into finagling us tickets to the Robert Plant concert in Boston. I normally stick to clubs and small venues, but it should be a good show -- Robert is one of those musicians I greatly respect, for not only surviving, brain and voice more or less intact (no small feat in itself), but being one of those career musicians who has continued to innovate and expand himself musically throughout all of those years (okay, okay, the post-Honeydripper years were pretty lean there for a while...) Like Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, and a relative handful of others, after achieving megasuperstardom, he's not just rested on his considerable laurels, but has grown, changed, experimented, and is still a true artist, not merely a slowly-degenerating playback device of past glories. Heck, he's hugely irreverent about his own work, not only messing with his own stuff, but also giving his blessing to such deliciously bizarre and heretical recombinations as Dread Zeppelin and Luther Wright and the Wrong's country-western version of "The Wall" ("Rebuild The Wall"). Such as Plant give me hope. And, in greater or lesser measure in his various incarnations, a good deal of pleasure in listening to his work over the years. May we all continually grow and reinvent ourselves with such grace.
In a totally different musical mode, Robert Plant and his current band, The Strange Sensation, recently laid down some live tracks while in Austin, and, along with live versions of some cuts from his latest album, Mighty Rearranger, two of them are cowboy-funk versions of "Black Dog" and "When the Levee Breaks." Yow. You can get them now from the iTunes Music Store. If you like Plant, do it. No, really.
My partner, a huge Robert Plant fan (I knew on our first date she was cool because she knew the words to all the Led Zep songs...) just induced me into finagling us tickets to the Robert Plant concert in Boston. I normally stick to clubs and small venues, but it should be a good show -- Robert is one of those musicians I greatly respect, for not only surviving, brain and voice more or less intact (no small feat in itself), but being one of those career musicians who has continued to innovate and expand himself musically throughout all of those years (okay, okay, the post-Honeydripper years were pretty lean there for a while...) Like Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, and a relative handful of others, after achieving megasuperstardom, he's not just rested on his considerable laurels, but has grown, changed, experimented, and is still a true artist, not merely a slowly-degenerating playback device of past glories. Heck, he's hugely irreverent about his own work, not only messing with his own stuff, but also giving his blessing to such deliciously bizarre and heretical recombinations as Dread Zeppelin and Luther Wright and the Wrong's country-western version of "The Wall" ("Rebuild The Wall"). Such as Plant give me hope. And, in greater or lesser measure in his various incarnations, a good deal of pleasure in listening to his work over the years. May we all continually grow and reinvent ourselves with such grace.
