like lightning

...i was looking at the lambchop web site today (www.lambchop.net) and was reading some reviews from recent shows they had done (one such show being in seattle less than a two weeks ago in seattle...fuck..!), and they made me more determined than ever to see them - i just need to keep a better eye on their tour schedule. i told someone recently that they were/are a band i would travel hundreds of miles to see, maybe further..and how...that's not my point...(if i really have one at all...) but more that there was one review that reminded me of a song that's so great that whenever it comes on i just can't not turn it up..

"The Chop Wagner brought to D.C. was modest compared to previous lineups (which have swelled to 20 players), but judging from the dynamic range they displayed, it may be the ideal setup to express his soul-rock-jazz-poetry hybrid. The key was guitarist William Tyler, who played with a sympathy, tastefulness and sting worthy of Steve Cropper. "

steve cropper played with a million but i first became aware of him when he was part of the dan and john traveling show called the blues brothers...tasty. and i'm not a blues guy at all...really...but on the way home tonight from dinner i put on "b" movie box car blues from briefcase full of blues (written by delbert mcclinton) and wham..! so great. if steve jordan isn't one of the swinginest-studdersteppin'-rock-a-roll drummers...(a term i plan to copywrite..) i dunno who is...you listen to his drumming on that number and it's so clear...rich even.
i'm not sure why i'm telling you this except that music has always played such a huge part my life, from kip (my hero as a young man) bringing home fleetwood mac's self-titled album in 1978 to hearing whiskeytown's stranger's almanac while i was working at the railway in the 90's...and later listening to it as i coursed my way through georgia with rachel on the arguements across american tour and it being perfect. i'm rambling a little perhaps...but suffice t say, i love the music in my car still..i still like singing along...and i'm surprised sometimes how much i like that new deathcab for cutie...ah, so be it. what i sing to inside the car stays inside the car.

ok...i'm tired...

have a great week.

g. xo