song of the week: gary moore, still got the blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw
honourable mention: joe bonamassa, the thrill is gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiyVWyPH7Ls
i've not so much made up my mind, as come to a realisation.
maybe it's the blues i've been listening to. the blues... it sorta makes being sad damn cool. but it's more than sadness. it transcends sadness, i think. it's better than sadness. being able to write a beautiful blues song about a sad situation, is, i think, celebrating it, not joyously, but affirming it, revelling in it, maybe indulging in it. yes, this is the blues. it's a soul connection with how a man feels about women, from all of time, from the time when blues began. the blues is soft, and the blues is melodic, and the blues is loud, and the blues is wild, and the blues weeps, and the blues roars, and the blues feels all the things a man feels. and my caveat is that i'm not sad, just bluesy 'sad'. and i'm very blues, oh, very blues right now.
a man sings the blues to no one, i think. he sings it to himself. i think the woman the blues song is written for was never meant to hear the song. and that sits just fine with me.
and my realisation is this. i'm fine. i'm absolutely fine. and i haven't said this for awhile, but shoot, things couldn't be better.
also, that chemistry and character-matching is important.
sooooo longggggg... it was sooooo longgg agoo...
but i've still got the blues for youuu
oh listen to that gibson... god!
