The Sound of White
Whenever I come across a new artist that I really like, I just have to let you know about it. I went to a Howie Day/Gavin DeGraw concert and their opening act was Missy Higgins. It was just her and the piano (go figure why I would like it right away!). Her vocals are personal, poignant and vulnerable. The music is perfectly minimal. It is not over produced and allowed some of the more emotional songs to stay her and a piano with subtle background vocals and strings. She does such a great job of pouring her heart out on stage, even in a venue where personal emotional reflection is at a minimum that I had to buy her album "The Sound of White." I recommend it to everyone to purchase it. My favorite song is the hidden track at the end of the cd that I imagine is called "No" or "I Couldn't Say No."
That song brought me back to when I was younger and searching for everything I could to find meaning in anything... and holding on so tight to all that I found that I couldn't let it slip away. It was a time when I felt time stopped and my world was so big it could overtake reality to such a point that only myself and my love for somebody could only, truly exist. Unfortunately it seems that when we get older, we become a bit jaded - and I can't say that I haven't. And I also have to say that it it makes me mad that I have innately constructed a defensive shell around that reality which molded me into I am today... and blindly, probably allow myself to believe I haven't. Honestly though, when I am at the piano, all of these realizations hit me so hard and so blinding that it is hard to imagine losing sight of the simplicities of life which make it so great. Maybe that is why we are so complex, because we force ourselves to throw so many variables into our life equation that it is impossible to settle on anything... to make it easy to ignore our vulnerabilities or even our dreams. Maybe that is why we invented the word "cliche": allowing all things that are simple, yet ultimately poignant... to become just an overstated phrase that is easily ignored.
Let us not lose our ideals or become victims. Let us be true to ourselves and others - and remember that the issues in life which are the most important, are not the "matters of consequence" we claim them to be. And, please also remind me of that as well!
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