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Melvern Taylor
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CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“A little piece of Americana that's too innocent and sweet for words, yet Melvern Taylor finds them anyway. "I'd love to stay here and love you more / But I must go". So beautiful.”
CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“"And the sweet smoky smell of you / Lola I'm telling you / I'll never make it alone". Lowell/Lola, you can switch 'em and it still makes sense. (If you've ever been to Lowell, maybe you know what I'm talking about). I like it when you can make up reasons for a lyric to be about what you want it to be about, and it all works. I like it.”
CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“There's a point (and you'll know when it gets there) when you start to hear every barroom singalong chorus you wish you ever knew, and you know you don't need to know 'em anymore, cuz you've got this one. "I'm going crazy (ba da da da da da da) Getting over you (ba da da da da da da da) I just can't seem to let you go"”
CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“There can never be anything wrong with a song about beer cans. Add a lyric about Blue Oyster Cult coming out your brother's window, and you know you're being taken to a place you remember like it's inside a sunny day snow globe.”
CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“"Darling, you astound me".
I hear this one and I know it's supposed to be "Sad and Blue", but "it don't matter, if you break my stupid heart" says it in a way that you know it's not wished to end that way. Best I can squint on the song credits that's Steve Latt on the fiddle, and it's a great part, even though you have to pay attention to hear it. A great arrangement, and a great song.”
CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“I like to imagine this one is somebody's favorite lullabye, if that somebody was lucky enough to have someone to love them that much.”
CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“One of my personal favorites. Starts out to strains of that nifty version of "Over the Rainbow" I can never remember who sings, and then goes straight to the heart and you realize it's all it's own song. How to be sorry for leaving, and for staying too long, too. "But it's not my fault". You know there's somebody to whom you want to say it too.”
CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“I kid you not, someone I know who teaches music at a Catholic middle school taught this one to his whole class, and I've got to imagine, if there's a way to get a rep at a nice respectable Catholic school, there might be few ways quicker than to be responsible for a whole busload of the little darlings to be harmonizing to "Where did all the daydreams go / I only know that they're gone / It's just another of the things I've lost / And now I mind my manners when I'm talkin to the boss / because I always thought that I would be somebody / And I never thought it would come to this / Now I'm just another working stiff". There are few better lessons to be teaching 'em. And few better songs. This one is a keeper.”
CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“Somebody might tell you that Melvern Taylor is the king of the sweetest sounding sad songs you've ever heard, but until they've heard this one, it's possible they know neither sad, nor sweet.”
CraigH Rec'd this on Dec 25, 2008:
Street Cred: 11176
Rec's: 500
“It's been a good show when "Bettie Lou" is part of the set list. "I'm glad we had this Ta-aaaahlk"”
