Still looking for that summer music (thanks Paula for the Kanye track). I was aiming for older times and pulled out the classic Bakesale by Sebadoh. I was having an emotional day- so by track 4 or 5, I had already cried, reminisced about things that need not be reminisced and had to begun to be over-agitated. Some brilliant songs but too loaded for heavy rotation.
Anyways I popped in last summer's Wilco album Sky Blue Sky on a drive home with my family the other night and I've gotta say the first few tracks just hit the spot. This one - Impossible Germany - has this sick guitar work by Nels Cline. For me, its sorta edible, the sound has so much personality and texture. You just crave a way to get further inside it leaving you with air guitar as the most direct entry point.
Anyways my enjoyment of this pure guitar rock was brought to a halt as I noticed my wife, mocking my bliss with devil horns raised and a heavy-metal-head-nod. We got into an unresolvable debate about the validity of guitar noodling which she isn't big on. And though I know it is a bit tedious I find it to be rather tasty at times - the jam. And now I know to satiate my summer blues, I need to enter the abyss of glorious rock jams. Santana, Greg Allman, Jerry...here I come.
i actually really enjoy that album too... i just like to skip ahead past the beedly-doodly. signed, the wife
I simply do not understand folks who refuse to grow and/or go places with artists... case in point, I still here longings for remakes of Being There or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot while I consider Sky Blue Sky simply a truly brilliant record. I gotsta say, Nels Cline beedly-doodlies are euphoric especially when you're watching him be-doodle right in front of you.
Sorry I haven't checked in for a while.
peace.
joel
p.s. I don't know if you have any strong feelings toward Paul McCartney, but have you ever tried Ram on for size?
What is George signing in this photo? Y? for Yes?
+ I didn't realize you were hankering for summer BLUES - that Kanye track is certainly not that!
Joel- I wanna RAM - I just need to score a copy of it.
Paula- that would be Texas Longhorns.