I love being able to just wander the stacks and come across something that catches my eye. While checking on our music collection I saw Dislocation Blues by Chris Whitley and Jeff Lang. I know I had picked it up before and I guess I didn't love it at the time because I didn't make a copy (shhhh!) or buy my own copy (which I do for the stuff I realllly love.) I took it home again and put it on the player this weekend and wow....I was just blown away this time out. Funny how something that didn't really catch your attention before ends up being your new favorite thing...seems to happen to me a lot. Chris Whitley was a talented guy who left us too soon, passing away in 2005. I don't pretend to know about his blues "chops" or how talented he was as a guitar player, but a quick Wikipedia search reveals that many musicians considered him to be quite the heavyweight.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
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