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Today! I went on a quest.
I...
- got my glasses fitted with new lenses. My old ones were horribly foggy and the prescription actually over-corrected my vision. Fortunately, it didn't effect my eyesight in horrible ways. My new lenses are so clear and I can see so much better ;A;
- went to Fort Wayne to hunt down a couple items, most of which I found after searching a couple places: The Outermost House by Henry Beston, As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann, The Union by Elton John & Leon Russell (produced by T Bone Burnett).
- the only thing I didn't find were any Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds albums that I wanted. Murder Ballads (which is ZOMGAMAZING) is out of print, but I was able to special order The Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus.
- Bought my sister's Christmas gift: the deluxe edition of Lonely Avenue by Ben Folds, which comes with a small book by Nick Hornby. Two of the things my sister loves in this world are Ben Folds's music and Nick Hornby's books. So this album is like an awesome, holy union.
I don't know if she's heard it yet.
- Bought one gift for one friend, which I need to mail out on Friday so she'll get it soon.
And that was my day.
...
And to relate this back to the title of the post, the Elton John/Leon Russell album is fucking amazing. It's apart of this growing trend of old musicians doing albums (usually with T Bone Burnett), which try to recapture their musical roots in blues, gospel, soul, and country (not modern commercial country, though). I like to call it Old Man Blues Rock.
It's a pretty damn awesome trend.
I...
- got my glasses fitted with new lenses. My old ones were horribly foggy and the prescription actually over-corrected my vision. Fortunately, it didn't effect my eyesight in horrible ways. My new lenses are so clear and I can see so much better ;A;
- went to Fort Wayne to hunt down a couple items, most of which I found after searching a couple places: The Outermost House by Henry Beston, As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann, The Union by Elton John & Leon Russell (produced by T Bone Burnett).
- the only thing I didn't find were any Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds albums that I wanted. Murder Ballads (which is ZOMGAMAZING) is out of print, but I was able to special order The Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus.
- Bought my sister's Christmas gift: the deluxe edition of Lonely Avenue by Ben Folds, which comes with a small book by Nick Hornby. Two of the things my sister loves in this world are Ben Folds's music and Nick Hornby's books. So this album is like an awesome, holy union.
I don't know if she's heard it yet.
- Bought one gift for one friend, which I need to mail out on Friday so she'll get it soon.
And that was my day.
...
And to relate this back to the title of the post, the Elton John/Leon Russell album is fucking amazing. It's apart of this growing trend of old musicians doing albums (usually with T Bone Burnett), which try to recapture their musical roots in blues, gospel, soul, and country (not modern commercial country, though). I like to call it Old Man Blues Rock.
It's a pretty damn awesome trend.
