[.ca] Now and Again

Soul-sustaining, soul-feeding music.:
I have loved Jim Kweskin's music for over 30 years and he just seems to keep getting deeper. Brother Can You Spare a Dime is the one that knocked me over the edge this time, just got me weeping -- and it's such a quiet piece, one might say understated, at least Jim's vocals, but such depths in it. Acceptance is another word coming to my mind also on this song, I don't know why. Maybe just with the war starting, that this is a music of such peace -- the peace that passes out all understanding, if you can stay with it! There's such a unity of parts here on this album; there is no lead vocalist or instrumentalist, you could say "all men and women are creating equally." I know I'm making plays on words but it feels important. It's what my brain does in its self-talk, always trying to tweak the old cliches into something more up-to-date, usable, and, hopefully, moving. Probably many still can't hear this music; try to go back to pop after a few hearings and it's like what Woody Guthrie said about hobo soup, "so thin you could read a magazine through it." It's almost got a classical music feel to it. Samoa's voice is so pure it reminds me of what was said about Jo Stafford, "perfect pitch." And Jim -- he's definitely gone on somewhere, but at the same time he's right here, amazing! Well I better quit before I start blabbering. Just wanted to say thanks guys for stirring my pot with a big ladle. And to the public: Buy this CD! Even if you can't hear it the first time (and what great music can you hear the very first time) it will steal up on you!

• Sweet Sue
• Why Don't You Do Right
• Linin' Track
• I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
• The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
• Exactly Like You
• Sugar in My Bowl
• Brother Can You Spare a Dime
• Trouble in Mind
• Cry Me a River