I was putting a bunch of the MNB tunes on my mp3 player and noticed I had tracks from a Mindy Smith album (One Moment More) on my PC. I can't remember how/from whom I got her CD, but I don't think I had listened to it after ripping it.
Wow.
Her voice reminds me of Alison Krauss (that is, what an angel would likely sound like if I had the chance to hear one sing), but she is a bit more folksy rather than bluegrass-y, and when she rocks, she rocks it right. I'll tell you... listening to her rip it out with some open, country harmonies in behind and the drums kicking Steve-Earle style (think "Copperhead Road") while walking to work in the sunshine this morning pretty much sets up a day that cannot, no matter what follows, go too far wrong. Yeah, baby!
Happy weekend, everyone. Here's hoping you get a chance to breathe, to slow down, and to see or hear something beautiful. And if you're the one who introduced me to Mindy, thanks. I owe you one.
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I love my couch, in a completely platonic kind of way. If you were sitting on it, these are the kinds of things we may talk about. It would be better if you were actually here since I could make you a drink and put some tunes on - and that would be great, because I have impeccable taste in music - but, since you're not, this will have to do. So put on some good music, get comfortable, and enjoy.
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8 comments:
I like her. She's good
Oh, and thanks for getting Copperhead Road in my head. I HATE that song.
Have you seen him live? I've seen him a couple times just with him and a guitar, and he's amazing. A-MAZ-ING. Passionate, transparent, and a true story-teller. Copperhead Road is not so representative of his stuff... there is a DVD of him live at Montreux, from a show I was at, which is quite good. If you come over, you can watch it.
It's official: Mindy has met with approval with the Odyssey Telecorp Music Critics (ie: Rich). :-) I had her in my head all weekend, especially "Out Loud" (from the website) while I jogged on Monday. It's off to iTunes for me tonight...she's coming on the plane.
Thanks for the very cool discovery.
Speaking of music, as I sit here in my last hour of work for the day, my laptop is busily downloading all 2,000+ songs in Rich's itunes library. This has got to be one of the most awesome libraries known to man. And I mean MAN...not woman...hardly any girly tunes in this library. This is a gen-u-wine San Francisco Blues Greats library, one that has been known to entertain presidents and their entourage at the Bohemian Club (look it up). I can't believe my luck.
Unfortunately it does have a disproportionate amount of Grateful Dead in it, which I will be stuck with until I can root them out... including obnoxious numbers like "space" and long doped-up "friend of the devil" jams in about seven versions, only two of which I like.
The killer tracks for me are the rockers... Come To Jesus (love, love, love the harmonies on that) and Fighting For It All, which just has a beautiful drum arrangement.
And I'm sorry about the Dead. Jams: tolerable in concert. Boring beyond anything else known to man (with the exception of English soap operas) on disc...
Thank you. Boring, mind-numbing, aggravating listening to all that falsetto whining... enough already. But Rich likes it to get him into the "zone" when he's writing up equally mind-numbing legal agreements with everything including the weather accounted for.
I bought "Long Island" by Mindy last night, just so I can play "Out Loud" all the way to Europe. Looking forward to hearing the other CD.
I'm always up for that!
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