I've had Voices on constant rotation these last few days - it's much better and richer than I thought on first listen. Full of affection and warmth and strength - and humor. Think a folky JJ Cale with a shit hot Nashville band, and a bunch of songs you'll be singing - and whistling! - along to after a few plays. It's perfect comfort music for the times, and the nicest album of its type since Naturally.
NOTE: His albums re-upped - look for Take It Slow, February.
Voices is a swell album.
ReplyDeleteAin't it though? Love the chorus whistle on Heaven Knows ...
DeleteBack when I was a younger lad, I went to my first real concert at the Fillmore in SF to see Fleetwood Mac (post-Peter Green, but still with Jeremy Spencer in one of his final shows). Second on the bill was Tom Rush. The opening band was Clover with a guy named Huey Lewis.
ReplyDeleteHaven't gotten around to "old" Tom Rush yet (made myself a swell comp of his prime years from the stuff y'all posted), but will definitely give this a listen as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteMarianne Faithfull is also in hospital, in London, with the wicked bug.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see FMF back up & running. We need it, badly, in these trying times.
Kudos to Farq, aka 1st Responder in Wit.
("To Wit" didn't seem to fit...)
And then there are the "Comments" section dwellers. All 4-or-5. They'd fall under the "Sans Wit" Dept.
I have a cheese steak "wit"
ReplyDelete/it's a thing.
//no really.
Would that be a Philly cheesesteak samwidge? I had one of them up in Long Eddy, New York State wit' my good buddy General Aldo.
DeleteThat's right, just ask "Philly Joe" Jones!
DeleteOver on Bleecker St. at Faicco's Italian Specialties, if you tell Tony: "Yo Tony, gimmie a Proscuitto, ham, capicola, soppressata and motz (mozzarella) wit". You get it wit lettuce, tomatoes, onions, oil, vinegar, and oregano.
There's a also a wit & wisdom joke in here somewhere.....
It musta been, what, twenny year since I ate that sambwidge? I can still taste it today! mainly because I ain't finished digestin' it yet.
DeleteJeez.
Yesterday I belched, and tasted the Pizzagaina (Italian-American meat pie) I ate on Easter Sunday.
DeleteFuhgettaboutit.
Good to see you made it to th' Isle, Mr. Fan! Got some psych upcoming ...
ReplyDeleteguilty as charged :(
ReplyDeleteAnd go round and round...
ReplyDeletein this circle game.
Get well, SOON...Tom!
(You might even say 'there IS a RUSH')
And know what's happening between the princess...and the prince.
Are you wit me?
ReplyDeleteO.K., yeah, I gots nuttin'
"Sike!"