If any of you own the Matt Nathanson album At The Point then I am sure you are fully aware of his cover of Drivin' and Cryin's "Straight to Hell". Before I owned this record, I had never heard the song. In the interest of comparison, I went in search of it. Holy crap - what a stinker! I would rather paper cut the web between my thumb and first finger than hear the original version of this song. Blech.
Here, give it a listen:
Now what made Matt Nathanson listen to that song and think, "I want to sing that - it'll be awesome!"?? But, believe it or not - he did it! And it sounds awesome. It's a great song when he sings it (so, yeah, it was probably a great song before he sang it, I just couldn't hear it that way).
For comparison:
See?? So much more wonderful.
I have this blog because I love music passionately. I love the progression of a song, the swell of it, the way it permeates a room and fills the spaces. I love how it ebbs and flows and how it can be a tangible thing - how you can move around inside it and it can move around inside you. And I love to talk about it, write about it, experience it.
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