I'm not sure if the stories and music are just that extra touch special on this release, or if something has changed in my life, but I can't get over how much I love this concert.
No, there's something in this. GOTJ has always been amongst my least listened to albums. (Aside from the studio version of Across The Border, which is utterly magnificent and still unequalled live IMHO). It's always been a very specific mood, and I guess I'm not often enough in the mood for it. I've always appreciated it more as a work of artistic expression, rather than something I am truly emotionally invested in (and it's the only Bruce album that strikes me that way).
But this show... I finally get it. I don't know what it is... the performances themselves, the way they are sequenced and framed by the back catalogue material. I don't know, there is something visceral going on here.
Having said that, you are a youngling. I envy you. Well, I envy anyone young to some degree, but I envy the fact that you will grow to love and appreciate various Bruce records at different stages in your life and hear things you never heard, understood, or felt from the music before. His ability to synthesise the human experience into song, and to do it in a way whereby he reflects his current lifetime experience at any point in his career, means you will discover depths in especially his latter music you could never truly feel or understand earlier.
Whenever Bruce talks about The Grapes of Wrath, he always references the John Ford film. It's a wonderful film, but I wonder if Bruce ever got around to reading the beautiful book.
I'm so fully onboard with Nugs releasing as many Joad shows as they can. Something has struck me listening to this one over the weekend that's made me crave more and more. The intimacy of the music, the tenderness of Bruce's stories. I love it and I want it all.
I'm not sure if the stories and music are just that extra touch special on this release, or if something has changed in my life, but I can't get over how much I love this concert.
Whenever Bruce talks about The Grapes of Wrath, he always references the John Ford film. It's a wonderful film, but I wonder if Bruce ever got around to reading the beautiful book.
I'm so fully onboard with Nugs releasing as many Joad shows as they can. Something has struck me listening to this one over the weekend that's made me crave more and more. The intimacy of the music, the tenderness of Bruce's stories. I love it and I want it all.
I always think it's gonna take days and days when I post something like that ^
Maybe someday I'll try that and see what the reaction is, haha