Last night was such a messed up evening at work and the whole earlier portion of the week there so mind twistingly tweaked that I hadn’t even given a thought to the tunage for today until about 15 minutes ago.
But when I came home, the first song in the file I loaded into the the media player was today’s selection, so I figure it’ll work for today because it mellowed me right out when I got home, headache and all.
Bag of Jewels – Lou Donaldson
I was quite happy when Blue Note records started reissuing their older jazz albums on CD a few years back because I could listen to all the songs I liked in the car without having to worry about the cassette tape warbling.
While I like Lou Donaldson’s saxophone style, I really like his choice in band mates on the album, 1968’s Midnight Creeper (which you can and really should buy here).
Besides some excellent playing by George Benson on guitar, the album also features Lonnie Smith on the Hammond B-3 organ. Donaldson lets Lonnie run loose on this tune and it is worth the wait for a dial up download, so you cable modem and DSL people have no excuse.
This is not a slow tune by any stretch of the imagination. And while it is really more suited to be summertime music, best if listened to while driving down the coast with the roof down, I figured that since most people in Seattle are crying about the 25 straight days of rain we’ve had, that everyone else out in the sphere could use some summer music too.
Myself, I like the rain. Not only because Seattleites are making me laugh about their whining about it, but because it ups the chances that I won’t have to listen to any speeches about a ‘drought’ this summer.
There’s no prize involved, but can anyone tell me where I got the tagline for the title of this post?
Well, I’ll bite since nobody else did.
Isn’t there a blues tune by that name? Either that or it’s the title of one of my Dad’s old Gordon Lightfoot albums.