Topic: My take on SG
Just got it last night at borders--I actually had a hard time finding it because I looked in the rock/pop section where his other stuff is and I found the labeled seperator thing and HTCT in with it, and that was it. Then I went over to the blues section just to look, and as usual it was small and really unorganized, but I looked anyway, didnt find it. after I had givin up and was lookin at some books while my dad was over there just shuffling throught the blues section just to find something to listen to, and he stumbled across 2 copies of SG an 1 of Y&M in a corner section behind like 5 CD's, like someone was trying to hide them. he put them up on top in the front away from everything else so everyone could see it.
anyways, that was that.----but onto my actual experience, you know, usually i have to warm up to Joe's CDs or at least a few songs on it...I did that with the first one I heard HTCT and really with all the others and found an appreciation for them. This one was a COMLETELY DIFFERENT! I liked...scratch that, I loved every song I heard. It combines my love for blues and rock with my taste for a little soft rock/acoustic and my facsination with catchy foreign music and does it FLAWLESSLY. every song is a work of art. I wasnt sure I was going to like this as much, because he said he was concentrating as the song and album as a whole, which got me worried i would miss out on some blazing solos...but i was wrong. Now there is a lack of face melters in the album, but I say good riddance, solos are overrated...I mean the guitar playing is great, and there are some awesome solos, but its not like BD, ANDY, SILT, HTCT, Y&M its like I love the songs because there really blues, but they are an honestly different take on them, and not just the phrasing of the notes or sound of the voice, its honestly new and different and really really good. No relying on anything, nothing to prove, just doing it right.
jelly roll is a work of genius, so is ball peen hammer, hell the whole thing is.
I used to skip over the track "around the bend" because it was to poppy or to soft rock and to genre specific and I never liked it....but I was listening to it last night late at night in complete silence and about 2/3's of the way through the song I felt water running down my face from both eyes. I wasnt thinking about anything sad, I had a really good day, I wasnt putting my life in perspective, I was actually in a quite good mood, but the tear ducts just started draining during that song and I cant explain it, that never happened to me before. Usually if or when I cry my facial muscles start to contract and my nose starts to run even if im crying out of happiness or laughter....none of that, just tears....odd.
I can really hear the added background accents of electric guitar and orchestral lines, and it all makes the music so layered without making it feel over produced; in a word brilliant. I sort of felt like that was a downfall of SILT.
This is my favorite album ever. I love Hendrix and SRV....and they will be eternal. Hendrix was breaking the mold, and SRV was chisseling it to perfection and bringing something new to the mainstream music scene at the time....but I have to say I'm burned out on it. everything the blues scene is doing right now is derivative of those guys and a few other classics, and the classics are doing more of the same. The last album of je's that I liked every song on was blues deluxe, but that is old news now, and I've heard a million or more songs that sound like that. even blues XM and internet radio just really start to get old. I just wanted more...I've started listening to other genres and artists, I am always drawn to bluesy stuff....anyway my point is this is classic AND refreshing. in my opinion the sound is of the album is PERFECT.
the only problem I have with it is its not long enough.
usually I apologize for rants like this, but I'm not going to this time, I said what I wanted and I'm not sorry regardless who reads it. I am sorry for my many gramatical errors though.
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