I’m not a reviewer or a writer but it just seems necessary to say something about Ben Kweller. I was able to see him perform last week and it was a truly amazing show. He doesn’t even need a recording studio just set it all up at the show and cut it because that is how tight he and his band are.
All that being said I hadn’t heard even one track off his new cd “Changing Horses”. I got a copy since I got back from the show and it is right in line with my musical interest as of late. Sounds to me like he is getting back to some of his own country roots and it just works. He is an amazing song writer and composer. I don’t know enough about music to elucidate any more than that but from a feeling(s) perspective the shit he writes just resonates with me.
It isn’t all that complicated. He definitely writes about things going on in his life and to that I can certainly identify. There is no truth like the truth that exists in each of our lives. The truth that seems to matter the most to us and to others through identification. Either you get it or you don’t, but we all have our truth and that truth provides us with the evidence of our connection to everything else.
Although I suppose truth or not we are all connected, but connection without knowledge seems, to me, to be a disconnection…and if I make your brow furrow go fly a kite. I’m not a logician just another asshole writing down some ideas.
Actually the whole “brow furrow” thing came from a conversation I was having with some people at work and this asshole furrowed his brow after I said something but never offered his contempt. Prick. And there my friends you have it I carry around that resentment and it has been about a week. Try being me…
So the initial question in my mind was where does soul come from? Is it the identification of our own interpersonal truths? I could ask a ton of questions, but maybe it is easier to just talk about what happens for me. When I feel the soulful connection something happens in my stomach and I feel my heart open up, I close my eyes, tilt my head, and move my body along with the music. It seems as if I stop where the truth starts and what is just shows up. It really feels good and for the most part music is the only place I have access to it and for that I am grateful.
Soul exists in a place that just can’t be faked and that is why I love it so much…