As Well As Some Old Tunes from Old Friends…..
So on several trips here and there this week I had the iPod with me and had it set on shuffle songs and I heard a lot of music that I haven’t heard for a long time! I know that on Wednesday morning’s trip to Paulsboro to babysit Oliver I traveled to Lukennbach with Jerry Jeff Walker and the song Viva Luckenbach and then I heard Tom Paxton’s “When Morning Breaks”. In the afternoon I heard John Prine‘s “Sam Stone” In between these songs from old friends, I heard some blues from Lonnie Brooks‘ album Bayou Lightning.and Buddy Guy from his album Skin Deep.
Instrumentally, there was some nice acoustic guitar from Dallas Gordon and an album titled Guitar Passion, the surprise was a track from One Foot in the Swamp from John Ellis. In the afternoon there was a track from the Celtic band Tempest from Live at the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
On Friday’s trip to the Inspection Station the music ranged from Pat Green’s Texas Country on “Streets of Galilee” from Songs We Wish We’d Written II to the bluegrass of mandolin wizard Adam Steffey Chinquapin Hunting and Dan Tyminski‘s “It All Comes Down to You”. There was a little New Age from Coyote Oldman “Turtle Island” and some more Americana from Slaid Cleaves’ Still Fighting the War – “Texas Love Song” and “Rise Above” from Will White.
All in all it once again made me realize that I sometimes spend too much time searching for new music and not enough listening to the music that I’ve already found and the musician who have been favorites for a long, long time!! Folks like Tom Paxton, Tom Rush, Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine and Steve Goodman. The song that I heard on Wednesday from Steve Goodman was “Old Smoothies” The song is about going to see the Ice Capades with his grandfather……what other songwriter would use the term “sequined septuagenarians” in a song! You gotta love it!!
So here is Steve’s song “Old Smoothies” from his album Affordable Art!
