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...have to learn to listen to the beat of your own drum,” Harris said as part of the first of “Carla’s Pearls...
...blues are the only style of music that are also a state of being. Listen to blues pioneers like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House and Muddy Waters and you might presume that this state has something to do with being short on cash and long on melanin, but Johnny Cash, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Charlie Musselwhite proved that you don't have to be poor and black to play the blues; you just have to be soulful and expressive. So you shouldn't dismiss the new blues cover albums by Eric Clapton and Aerosmith simply because both acts are richer...
...When I listen to a jazz or classical record (or a folk record—not that I have more than two) it hardly matters how loud it is. As a recording it’s already a second-degree experience of the musicianship, without the spontaneity or theatricality of the performance. You can still hear some of it, but there’s no fundamental connection. The only essence that’s preserved is the notes themselves, their tangible ideas and relationships. As long as they’re clearly audible the music conveys enough
...dancing inside a womb. Debussy might’ve fallen head over heels for the German house label, whose artists are masters at coloring texture as well as tone. Like so much new music, it fully engages the physical field, which is exactly why you can’t listen to it the same way you used to be able to enjoy a lyric or a tune—it’s become more than that. It goes well beyond spectacle. The skeptics say you have to listen loud because “there’s nothing there...
...justice, no peace,” they shouted in Spanish. “Businesses, listen, we are in the midst of the struggle...