Dylan is getting great reviews for his Sinatra release. I bought Peggi a $7.99 download copy for her birthday and we listened to it on the way down to Seneca Lake and then on the way back. I love hearing his voice, the slide guitar and the drummer’s brushes but some of the songs were a stretch the first time around. On second listening we were deliberately staying off the highway because of all the snow. We were traveling about twenty miles an hour on the back roads while huge snowflakes were falling. The album sounded just perfect, every song.
When I was first getting to know Rich I remember asking him what kind of music he liked. He told me something about Broadway musical soundtracks that his parents had in the house. I don’t think this is a Brian Williams kind of memory or anything. I clearly remember thinking, “that’s odd.” Well forty some years later Bar Stool Walker has new cd out. And of course that means new videos to go along with the songs. “Oh Hey Broadway” is a smash.
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In making the recording, I learned something about “Climb Every Mountain.”
“After Maria goes back to the monastery because she is unable to deal with her attraction to Captain von Trapp, she goes to the Reverend Mother expecting some stem advice,” Zizek said. “But, instead of criticizing her, the Reverend Mother gives her the message in that weird song ‘Climb Every Mountain.’ I think this is the most obscene moment in the movie. The very person one would expect to preach abstinence turns out to be the agent of fidelity to one’s longings. Significantly, when ‘The Sound of Music’ was shown in the ex-Yugoslavia, the three minutes of this song was the only part of the film that was censored.”
“Listen the snow is falling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upA1suom-i0