This post has nothing to do with medicine. Tonight I am writing about music.
One of my greatest pleasures is finding a new artist who infects me. I remember the week I discovered Nick Drake, and could not listen to anything else. Few CDs have that infectious quality. Mayer Hawthorne’s “A Strange Arrangement” has me obsessed.
Mayer (not his real name) channels 60s and 70s soul, and makes it his own. You hear the influences, yet you hear something brand new.
My son, he of the great musical taste, clued me in on Monday. He provided these YouTube links:
If you do not love this music, then we have different musical taste. I read a couple of reviews that criticized the voice and tried to map each song to particular soul artists and song writers.
All I can say is that the CD (available on iTunes for only 7.99) passes the “can’t stop listening to it” test. I hear influences from my youth, but who cares about the details. The music makes me smile.
