You packed in the morning and I Stared out the window and I Struggled for something to say. You left in the rain Without closing the door I didn’t stand in your way.
But I miss you more than I Missed you before and now Where I’ll find comfort, God knows. ‘Cause you left me Just when I needed you most.
(Left me, just when I needed you most)
Now most every morning I Stare out the window and I Think about where you might be. I’ve written you letters That I’d like to send If you would just send one to me.
‘Cause I need you more than I Needed before and now Where I’ll find comfort, God knows. ‘Cause you left me Just when I needed you most.
(Left me, just when I needed you most)
You packed in the morning I Stared out the window and I Struggled for something to say. You left in the rain Without closing the door I didn’t stand in your way.
Now I love you more than I Loved you before and now Where I’ll find comfort, God knows. ‘Cause you left me Just when I needed you most.
Oh, yeah You left me Just when I needed you most
You left me Just when I needed you most
Track - Just When I Needed You Most Album - Warmer Released - 1979 Singer - Randy Vanwarmer Lyrics - Randy Vanwarmer, Tony Wilson
The beat goes on… Yes! You are absolutely spot on. It is indeed Buddy Rich. Jazz- the music lover’s music, as it originated, still binds people together. It came about as a confluence, a merger, classic east meets west. Jazz is indeed the true world music.
A true music lover can listen to Jazz day in, day out. So do I. And here are some of the tracks that were playing on my iPhone last night:
Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Frank Sinatra - Mack the knife
Michael Buble - Sway
Ella Fitzerald - Too darn hot, The nearness of you (with Louis Armstrong), Love for sale
John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Moment’s notice
Amy Winehouse - I heard love is blind
Art Blakey - Moaning, September song
Charlie Parker - Hot house, Moose the mooche, Relaxing at Camarillo
Skalpel - Shivers, Sculpture
Nina Simone - House of the rising sun
Portico Quartet - Knee deep in the north sea, The Kon Tiki expedition
Jaga Jazzist - Day, Low battery
Dizzy Gillespie - A night in Tunisia, Caravan
Morphine - I had my chance
Sun Ra - Saturn
Tom Waits - Step right up
Buddy Rich - The beat goes on
Pharoah Sanders - You’ve got to have freedom
Parov Stelar - Crushed island
Mahavishnu Orchestra - A lotus of Irish streams
Modern Jazz Quartet - Autumn in New York
Billie Holiday - Autumn in New York, Don’t explain
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Parallel Corners
Donald Fagen - Walk between raindrops
Les McCann - Compared to what (with Eddie Harris)
Louis Armstrong - It takes two to tango
Weather Report - Young and fine
The Cat Empire - So many nights
Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Eighty eight days in my veins
Chet Baker - My buddy, But not for me
Charlie Christian - Seven come eleven
The Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday
Room Eleven - Lalala love
Fats Waller - Alligator crawl
Jaco Pastorius - Donna Lee
Chich Corea - Armando’s Rhumba (with Gary Burton)
Ray Charles - Unchain my heart
Nino Katamadze - Olei (with Insight)
Waldeck - Jerry Weintraub
John Zorn - Mao’s moon
Jimmy Smith - Mellow mood (with Wes Montogomery)
Miles Davis Quintet - It never entered my mind
Miles Davis - Nature Boy
Fatima Spar und die Freedom Fries - Candy shop
Avishai Cohen - Remembering
Wayne Shorter - Dance cadaverous
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Polar Bear - Beartown
Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
Naked City - Latin quarter
Tom White - Diamonds on my windshield
Boz Scaggs - Miss Riddle
Clifford Brown - I get a kick out of you (with Max Roach)
Kari Bremnes - A lover in Berlin
Contemporary Noise Quintet - Evil melody
Motorpsycho - Theme de yoyo (with Jaga Jazzist)
Nat King Cole - When I fall in love
Richard Bona - Souwedi na wengue
Jazz relaxes one like now other music. If you think otherwise, just Google any track in the list. In spite of the gray lyrics sometimes, it will surely calm help you unwind.
There is something about country music. It’s addictive, specially when you are couple of drinks down. Even if you are not, you still sing along. It grows on you. Be it the legendary Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson or relatively less known but superbly talented Iris DeMent. Country music has that raw feel to it, that makes one nostalgic, makes one feel more and more connected to it.
I got hooked to country music a few years back, listening to my brother playing Johnny Cash again and again one night. The love for country music is perhaps the only thing we have in common. Following are some of the artists(tracks) I love listening to (in no particular order):
Willie Nelson
The Carter Family(Chewing gum, The wandering boy)
Hank Snow(I’ll ride back to lonesome valley, I’m moving on)
Alison Krauss(Down to the river to pray, It don’t matter now)
Garth Brooks(Unanswered prayers, we shall be free)
Hank Williams Jr.(Storms never last, Midnight rider)
The Flying Burrito Brothers(White line fever, Hot Burrito #1, Sin city)
Lee Hazlewood (I’m blue, I’m gonna fly, Since you’re gone)
Iris DeMent(The shores of Jordan, Calling for you)
Gillian Welch (Revelator, Annabelle)
Jimmie Rodgers(Looking for a new mama)
Steve Earle (I ain’t ever satisfied)
Hank Williams
Woody Guthrie(Do-Re-Mi, Talking dust bowl blues)
Emmylou Harris (Sweet old world, Sleepless Nights, Here I am)
Bobby Bare(Vampira)
Tennessee Ernie Ford(Hey good looking,The old rugged cross)
Merle Haggard(Always wanting you)
Johnny Cash
Mark Knopfler with Emmylou Harris(I dug up a diamond)
Lucinda Williams (Are you alright?, Like a rose)
The Kingston Trio (Tom Dooley)
June Carter with Johnny Cash(Far side banks of Jordan)
Hank Williams III (No values)
Buck Owens(Hello trouble, Down on the corner of love)
The Highwaymen (Welfare line, Highwayman)
John Prine(Lake Marie, Paradise)
Johnny Horton(When it’s springtime in Alaska)
Kenny Rogers with The First Edition (Just dropped in)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band(Grand ole Opry song, Rocky top)
June Carter Cash(Lonesome valley, Ring of fire)
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (Mule skinner blues)
Alan Jackson (It must be love)
Neil Young(Old King, The last trip to Tuisa)
Simon & Garfunkel (The only living boy in New York)
Waylon Jennings(Don’t think twice)
Jerry Reed (The bird)
As far as me & country music are concerned, the love story continues…
I like Music. No scrap that, I LOVE MUSIC. No, it’s not my life, but truly, an essential part of my life. I don’t eat music, sleep music or live music instead, I feel music. There is nothing like bad music, we just have different tastes. They call me old-fashioned, ‘cos I listen to the following, more often than others (in no particular order):
Jimmy Page (Flashing Lights, Going to California)
CCR
Cream
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple (Space Trucking)
Bad Company (Stranger stranger, Feel like making love)
Van Halen (Ain’t talkin’ ‘bout love, Right now, Eruption)
AC/DC
Robert Plant (Louie Louie, Heaven knows, Let the boggie woogie roll)
Pink Floyd
The Allman Brothers Band (Ramblin’ man)
The Yardbirds (Drinking muddy water, Here ‘tis)
Queen
The Black Crowes (Out on the tiles)
Faces (We feel, Cyclone)
Rick Derringer (Rock & roll hoochie koo)
Zodiac n Black (Making an enemy)
Jimi Hendrix
The Doors
Wishbone Ash (Warrior, The king will come, Mother of Pearl)
Nazareth (Hair of the dog, Razamanaz)
The Strange Sensation (Somebody knocking, Pan valley)
Budgie (Hold on the love)
Page & Plant (Rude world)
Black Sabbath
Grand Railroad Funk
The Who
The Beatles
John Paul Jones (It’s coming)
Dire Straits (Where do you think you’re going?, Sultans of swing)
Fleetwood Mac (Family man)
Thin Lizzy (Dancing in the moonlight)
ZZ Top (Esther be the one, Planet of women, Gun love)
Foghat (Take me to the river)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Run run rudolph, Devil in the bottle)
Ten Years Later (I’m going home)
Foghat (I just want to make love to you)
Urian Heep
Ozzy Osbourne
Steve Miller Band
The Animals (We gotta get out of this place)
David Coverdale (She give me)
Eric Clapton
The Rolling Stones
Humble Pie
The J. Geils Band (Centrefold)
But still: “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea and the music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more”
