Sometimes you’re just in the mood for Luther.
Michael Kiwanuka - Bones
I guess I would leave this world alone
cause without you I’m just bones.
I hoped his album would sound this good. So so good.
Blu - ’Til We Die
This just seemed to fit the mood this morning. Plus, this track is criminally underrated.
My best thoughts often show up when I listen to music. In this particular instance, I was bumping this Jill Scott debut again and thought “the likelihood of me meeting someone here who has any idea how damn good this album is ranges from slim to none.” That thought depressed me briefly.
It’s not even about a lack of relations. It’s bigger than that right now. It’s about finding people who I can relate to in the simplest of ways. I try almost too hard to relate to other people. I think traveling and finding yourself in consistently awkward situations as an adult, has heightened my sense of curiosity that was always there to begin with.
It’s not about other people, but an inability to really understand what I’m supposed to do about it. I think it is just part of an evolutionary process that’s continuing to evolve. One of the things the past few years has been helpful for, is realizing what I’d do differently in situations if they arose and resisting the temptation to take even the most basic things for granted.
I used to think common ground was about liking the same tunes or finding someone who was a poor substitute for what I’d always imagined made sense. It’s not really about a caricature of a person that I think I’m looking for. But I don’t want to feel like I’m constantly trying to adapt something to fit a place it’s not meant to inhabit whether it’s me or someone else. I don’t think picking up and moving will change anything even if it were in the cards at this very moment. And I think there’s a penchant to try to make fetch happen that I’m also avoiding.
But it doesn’t change the fact that I’m souring on the routine, because there’s a real lack of the kinds of energy that keep me going. It’s akin to running a race where no one is watching. You just have to like running to keep motivated in that kind of forest. When I wrote that, I felt like there was a different kind of punchline but as I end it now, I realize that maybe that was the lesson along.
I feel like there’s a middle ground somewhere, it’s just a matter of finding it.
J.D. McPherson - North Side Gal
Wowza released in 2012.
I’ll Tell You When You’re Older
Mostly a soul playlist with some rock and other stuff I thought fit the mood…
Robert Glasper Experiment ft. Ledisi - Gonna Be Alright (F.T.B.) (Live on Jay Leno)
It’s absolutely worth your time to listen.
Willis Earl Beal - Don’t Leave Me Hanging
Ok fine. So you’re probably cooler than me, because you’ve heard of him before. Apparently, his name has been bandied about underground for ages. Well he got signed and he’s finally making his first overground appearances. This is from Germany. That voice is absolutely…wow. Stop reading. Push play. Thanks.
He’s got a gospel voice, blues styling and plays to a backing tape. And it absolutely works.
Mofeta & Jerre - Briljanter och smaragder (Live)
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it. It’s hot.
Esperanza Spalding (feat. Algebra Blessett)- Black Gold
