This Track Is Fire!

It's been almost a year since Shalee and I were able to see one of our bucket list acts, Jack White, and as I was reflecting on that this morning I realized there here on my music blog (which started after said show) I have neither posted a Jack White nor White Stripes track. What is wrong with me? As we approach that personal musical milestone for us I am reminded of heading to Detroit last year to visit Third Man records, where I finally grabbed this album on vinyl. True, I often like the boop-boop-beep, but there's just something about the raw rock'n roll of it all when it comes to Jack White. I fucking love this song. Oh! And he's the musical guest on SNL this weekend . Note: I'm not saying you have to buy it on vinyl, and I have no science to back me on this, but it certainly feels like all of Jack White's music is best experienced on vinyl, but that's just me. Enjoy! No Name by Jack White

It's hard for me to believe that the album Sound & Fury  is over six years old because to me it still so fresh and alive. I bought it on CD back in 2019 after my friend, Alan, turned me onto it. This is one of those albums with zero skips. Though I already own it on CD I recently bought it on vinyl and put it on today, which is why I am reminded of how fucking good it is. I even had trouble picking which song to highlight. Given a change in mood I could have easily picked "Make Art Not Friends," "Mercury in Retrograde," or just about any song on this album. But this is the one that I picked in this reality. If you haven't heard this song or this album yet, you really should remedy that because, in my opinion, it's just that  good. Happy Monday! Enjoy! 

I get that this is a love song, from a man to a woman, and it definitely fits my theme of giving thanks this week, but I have to be honest here: Led Zeppelin always reminds me of my father, now 11.5 years passed. Thanksgiving is all about family, and during the holidays it's wonderful to spend time with those that you love so dearly, but as you get older you also start to recognize more and more often those people that are no longer there. Be thankful for the time you have. Tomorrow at dinner I will think of the fact that we always teased by dad about not liking gravy, until that one year he grabbed the gravy boat and poured it all over his food just to, well, just to do something my father would do. And then we'll watch the Lions game and remember all of the dozens of time we did that in the past with him and my grandfather, Marion. Then, later still, we'd all play Trivial Pursuit as my Uncle Dan, grandpa, grandma (Nanny), and my dad, all since passed, would drink, eat des...