A look at my music collection could leave you with the impression that I like a broad range of music--Celtic, New Age, Classic Rock, Chant, 70s Crooners with Guitars, Swing, Blues, Jazz. I like all of that. Consecutively.
My relationship with each of these genres has been one of serial monogamy rather than a big happy love-in.
It's a way of being I trace to my childhood, when I would save long and hard to buy a $10 John Denver album. Once it was mine, I played the grooves right off the vinyl. So much effort went into getting the albums I wanted that I stayed with an artist until I had memorized his repertoire.
Just as John Denver provided the music to my life when I was younger, so Melissa Etheridge does the job now. Like the Country Boy, she has been my most recent long-term love affair. The others come and go, but that's about it.
On Sunday, my husband and I attended Etheridge's concert at the Ives Concert Park of Western Connecticut State University in Danbury.She sang for 2 hours, 50 minutes, presenting songs from her 20-year career and only skimming the surface of her vast repertoire. Every song was impressive.
She framed her selection with a narrative about her personal and artistic life from the 80s until she learned she had breast cancer. From that point on the personal and artistic took on a universal hue. She sang about cancer, the earth, and peace.
Guitarist Philip Sayce's riffs took the songs deeper inside themselves. (Check out the links below and experience it for yourself.) Though my husband and I sat on the lawn and couldn't actually see the concert,we felt every note through the hillside. It was a magical night; she was beautiful.
An Unexpected Rain
Kingdom of Heaven
I Run for Life
My relationship with each of these genres has been one of serial monogamy rather than a big happy love-in.
It's a way of being I trace to my childhood, when I would save long and hard to buy a $10 John Denver album. Once it was mine, I played the grooves right off the vinyl. So much effort went into getting the albums I wanted that I stayed with an artist until I had memorized his repertoire.
Just as John Denver provided the music to my life when I was younger, so Melissa Etheridge does the job now. Like the Country Boy, she has been my most recent long-term love affair. The others come and go, but that's about it.
On Sunday, my husband and I attended Etheridge's concert at the Ives Concert Park of Western Connecticut State University in Danbury.She sang for 2 hours, 50 minutes, presenting songs from her 20-year career and only skimming the surface of her vast repertoire. Every song was impressive.
She framed her selection with a narrative about her personal and artistic life from the 80s until she learned she had breast cancer. From that point on the personal and artistic took on a universal hue. She sang about cancer, the earth, and peace.
Guitarist Philip Sayce's riffs took the songs deeper inside themselves. (Check out the links below and experience it for yourself.) Though my husband and I sat on the lawn and couldn't actually see the concert,we felt every note through the hillside. It was a magical night; she was beautiful.
An Unexpected Rain
Kingdom of Heaven
I Run for Life
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Etheridge is an amazing talent and an inspiration as well. I have seen her live twice, though many years ago, and she puts on a hell of a show.
I love the idea of serial monogamy. Too true, especially with music.
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