Post by Mojo on Dec 15, 2009 22:55:19 GMT -5
I have been on a wicked songwriter kick lately, almost exclusively playing acoustic guitar and singing tunes by Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zant, Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson, Emmylou Harris, Tony Joe White, Blaze Foley, Iris Dement, Johnny Cash, Waylon, Willie, Shooter J, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle et all.
Man, amazing how a good song can stand on its own w/ just an acoustic and a voice - even when it's me playin' and singin'.
Some of the words in there are enough to make you cry (Hello in There, The Randall Knife, Goodbye, Clay Pigeons...), and others just are silly and funny (Inspite of ourselves, Crazy as a Loon, Homegrown Tomatoes...)
And then there is John Prine, who can make you laugh out loud in one song, and then nail you with vulnerability inside of the same darn song (Jesus, the missing years or Sam Stone for example.)
I realize that many here probably don't care for this type of music, but in many ways, these songs, listening to them and singing them, have helped me tremendously in the past couple of weeks through a very difficult time in my life, through their honesty, their nakedness, their open vulnerability.
The power of songs, once again in the limelight of my life, such as it is.
Man, amazing how a good song can stand on its own w/ just an acoustic and a voice - even when it's me playin' and singin'.
Some of the words in there are enough to make you cry (Hello in There, The Randall Knife, Goodbye, Clay Pigeons...), and others just are silly and funny (Inspite of ourselves, Crazy as a Loon, Homegrown Tomatoes...)
And then there is John Prine, who can make you laugh out loud in one song, and then nail you with vulnerability inside of the same darn song (Jesus, the missing years or Sam Stone for example.)
I realize that many here probably don't care for this type of music, but in many ways, these songs, listening to them and singing them, have helped me tremendously in the past couple of weeks through a very difficult time in my life, through their honesty, their nakedness, their open vulnerability.
The power of songs, once again in the limelight of my life, such as it is.
