Randy wrote >>FTR, stripped of it's rhythm, sounds like stillborn bachelor pad music.<<
that is so interesting to hear your reactions randy...i'm such a rhythm freak but i didn't miss it here one bit...i have to listen to this cut again but i recall listening last night in the dark that i felt i was being transported up to BC- it was deep winter & i was looking out across the water under a full moon...it had a haunting quality of her looking back in time while standing in the same physical location where she wrote the song.... >>the hugely ponderous treatment of "Woodstock", at heart a musically simple song with earthy hippie-era lyrics.<< i was blown away (in a good way) by her treatment of woodstock...yes, it was once a simple song for a simpler time (or so it seems now) & was an anthem for a generation (i was at woodstock myself)... but her new arrangement makes a huge statement about what has happened to us all since those simple glory days...imo of course... i think why i love this record so much is that i was actually not expecting that much (ti is just okay to me & i don't even have ttt or bsn)...i was completely open to hearing something brand new & i had no interest in comparing the songs to how she previously arranged them & i do not expect or want her to have the same voice she once had...& so i love the sound of her voice as it is now- so whethered & wise & like fine wine, a favorite pair of decades old blue jeans...a guitar you've had & played for years...etc.... we all have different tastes so i don't expect everyone to like what i like but i wonder- to those of you who don't like this record- have you listened to it in the dark, with no distractions, just letting yourself go where the music takes you...because this record really takes me on a visual journey, if i let it....it's cinematic... ******************************************** Kate Bennett: www.katebennett.com Sponsored by Polysonics/Atlantis Sound Labs Over the Moon- "bringing the melancholy world of twilight to life almost like magic" All Music Guide ********************************************
