An Acapella Blues Break
I should be writing--or at least staring at the manuscript--but I heard "People Grinnin' In Your Face" on the way home from yoga last night. I was clapping and bobbing at a stop light when I realized what that always must look like from outside the car.
This is Austin, the live music capital of the country. People must have known I wasn't having a seizure.
Anyway, the version on her new CD The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster has a couple of backup singers but it's still sans instruments. That's what I was listening to last night. In a Subaru Outback. At the intersection of Burnet and 183. If you saw me and were wondering if I should be allowed to drive without medication or something.
This is Austin, the live music capital of the country. People must have known I wasn't having a seizure.
Anyway, the version on her new CD The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster has a couple of backup singers but it's still sans instruments. That's what I was listening to last night. In a Subaru Outback. At the intersection of Burnet and 183. If you saw me and were wondering if I should be allowed to drive without medication or something.
posted by Maureen McHugh at 12:35 PM
5 Comments:
I love that song!
Ruthie Foster is amazing indeed. I had the pleasure of hosting her at one of my living room concerts a few years ago, and it was a great afternoon.
Holy crap! That was amazing. I've got to pick up her CD. That's a song by Son House, one of the greatest blues singers ever, and a teacher to John Mooney, another fine blues singer who I used to listen to in a little bar every Monday night in New Orleans. Thanks for bringing that all back!
I'm a die hard "The Who" fan.
But the Blues take the cake!
That's where it all started,
that "rock and roll" thing.
Muddy Waters,Howlin' Wolf,
Lead Belly,and so on...
Ruthie rocks!
If the music doesn't
do something for or to
you,it's worthless!
That number says alot!
I picked up one of the tracks from her latest album ("Harder Than the Fall"). I think you just convinced me to get the rest.
Phenomenal Ruthie Foster indeed.
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