Re: Baerwald vs Crow, Part 2, Seriously, not trying to stir shit.....
Always a triple-E ride with you, isn't it? (That's a good thing.)I agree with you that Baerwald gots the goods. Then again, I find Crow's music appealing too. I mean, a song like "Soak up the Sun" is fine with me, in the context of a person wanting to put out a "summer album," as was her stated goal in the interviews I've seen.I have fond memories of that album. My nieces loved it, and we spent a couple of summer afternoons hunting for petrified wood with that album playing in the van. Each of them sings like a choir of angels, so sometimes I would just turn the stereo off & listen to them sing it in harmony (they rarely noticed). It is one of my fondest memories.I just don't think we need to self-immolate over our favorite writers/musicians/etc, as if we were defending their projects from being sullied by all the other projects at work out there. The politics/mechanics/dirty tricks/etc that stand behind the scenes of any given "hit" do not, in my mind, detract from that hit's ability to move me, or to stand as a flagpost reminding me of some particularly awesome time, such as time spent hunting for petrified wood with the nieces, which never seems to happen again.Maybe I am the minority vote here. I don't mind being that.Thoughts?
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Always a triple-E ride with you, isn't it? (That's a good thing.)I agree with you that Baerwald gots the goods. Then again, I find Crow's music appealing too. I mean, a song like "Soak up the Sun" is fine with me, in the context of a person wanting to put out a "summer album," as was her stated goal in the interviews I've seen.I have fond memories of that album. My nieces loved it, and we spent a couple of summer afternoons hunting for petrified wood with that album playing in the van. Each of them sings like a choir of angels, so sometimes I would just turn the stereo off & listen to them sing it in harmony (they rarely noticed). It is one of my fondest memories.I just don't think we need to self-immolate over our favorite writers/musicians/etc, as if we were defending their projects from being sullied by all the other projects at work out there. The politics/mechanics/dirty tricks/etc that stand behind the scenes of any given "hit" do not, in my mind, detract from that hit's ability to move me, or to stand as a flagpost reminding me of some particularly awesome time, such as time spent hunting for petrified wood with the nieces, which never seems to happen again.Maybe I am the minority vote here. I don't mind being that.Thoughts?
Herring405
