tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post6535901049921982426..comments2024-03-27T18:34:28.763+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: EVENSONG. AS POIGNANT AS IT GETS, KELLY JOE PHELPS ...........may we find in our togetherness honest joycall me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46443002195249389712014-12-03T21:53:52.415+00:002014-12-03T21:53:52.415+00:00i faced no distractions, mr doug shoulders, yet st...i faced no distractions, mr doug shoulders, yet still had to listen a couple of times; a modest man, Phelps, and this, I feel, is simply the best such that I have heard in a long time.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-9799213278899629452014-12-03T11:11:23.351+00:002014-12-03T11:11:23.351+00:00Due to a number attention seekers in my workplace ...Due to a number attention seekers in my workplace (Everybody listen to me! Everybody listen to me!)I had to listen to this more than once to hear properly the lyric.<br />Certainly a thoughtful heartfelt soliloquy. I shall listen more attentively to some of the other stuff at home.<br />Thanks.<br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-72434832816990763912014-12-03T09:11:45.735+00:002014-12-03T09:11:45.735+00:00Kelly Joe Phelps, mr mongoose, we featured here, m...Kelly Joe Phelps, mr mongoose, we featured here, must be five years ago; then he was a dazzling slide player and picker who outshone Messieurs Cooder and Thompson in both technique and style. Since then he has undergone an epiphany and released an album of bluesily-reworked hymns and songs of redemption, Guide me, Oh, thou Great Jehovah, being a delight.<br /><br />Although he can play those old country and Delta blues styles, his current style, as you can see from this, is a bit more idiosyncratic and deeply personal; this lyric, once I understood it, had my tears rolling down, hope awakened, optimism unslayed.<br /><br />I rediscovered him while searching for versions of Buckets of Rain, of which there are many, as you would expect, and found myself immersed for a couple of hours in his wondrous creativity. May his God bless him, further. <br /><br />There is a lot of him on youtube, try Great Redeemer and the stuff clustered around it, or find the Evensong, here, from before-before.<br /><br />I have tried, mr alphons, but I do not understand the nuancing hat reference.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-37978710498634575572014-12-03T02:20:28.372+00:002014-12-03T02:20:28.372+00:00Good one, Mr I. Who is he? Another one I had never...Good one, Mr I. Who is he? Another one I had never heard of.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-10363469954328181802014-12-02T17:19:47.211+00:002014-12-02T17:19:47.211+00:00If it had not been for the hat one would have had ...If it had not been for the hat one would have had difficulty in comprehending all the nuances.Alphonsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-11900818308415852582014-12-02T03:49:12.758+00:002014-12-02T03:49:12.758+00:00Works for me.Works for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com