Leif Vollebekk - "Read My Mind (The Killers cover)". Leif, drummer Phil Melanson, and saxophonist Adam Kinner take this worn dollar-bill of a song and trade it for a vault of gold and silver. I'm struck by the way the right interpreter can take a dying tune and make it new. That doesn't happen in other places: a gust of wind can't change me, can't turn me back into a kid. But: yesterday, "Read My Mind" was no more than this; today, it's a river. [download Leif's free Borrowed Time EP, all covers, at his website]
Lonnie Holley - "Looking For All (All Rendered Truth)". When a pool is still enough, it is indistinguishable from a mirror. When a mirror is clear enough, it is indistinguishable from a pool. All around us, these pools and mirrors, these tomorrows and dreams, indistinguishable. [buy]
Posted by Sean at July 11, 2013 7:04 PMThank you Sean.
Posted by Philip at July 16, 2013 1:18 AMI'm beginning to think Leif Vollebekk occupies this weird isolated island of musical preference in me that I had no part in choosing.
He's like the stuff that my parents would have listened to on romantic nights in, with tiny versions of me and my brother rolling around on the floor, way back, when we let everything in 'cause we'd not found our doors yet. Like a candlelit wine glass and a foot rub, without knowing why a person might stand all day and drink all night. Like longing for more contentedness.
I really can't explain better how at peace he makes me feel.
Thanks for letting me know, STG.
Posted by Ryan at July 16, 2013 6:43 PM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
