I dragged myself out of the house this morning to work in a coffee shop, thinking that would help me focus. In the last half-hour, the background music has given me some new song by U2, which was just good enough to pull me out of my determined-to-be-productive-after-all mindframe. I emerged in time to hear Jill Sobule do “Where is Bobbie Gentry” (I get it, but when I realized it was Jill Sobule, I felt disappointed – like she could do better than that), followed by some mediocre cover of “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” All of this seemed to be prologue to what’s on now: Low Anthem. Have you heard them? They’re kind of a new “thing” in the indie whatever-this-is world. Just thought I’d share:
In the time it took me to watch a few different Low Anthem videos to choose the one I’d share with you folks, the barista changed the station to some big band music. Now we’re listening to Glen Miller do this little gem:
…which just makes me wish I could see Low Anthem backed by the Glen Miller Orchestra. I wonder how a new band like Low Anthem could benefit from being backed by the Glen Miller Orchestra, if history wasn’t a factor and we could just pull artists together like that, via time machine, or something. I’m not talking about the creepy Natalie/Nat King Cole or Celine/Elvis duets they’ve done through “TV magic”.
There was, a month or so ago, discussion about who Rick Rubin should work with next. On a similar note, who would you pair up with whom, as a creative team, if you had your druthers and a time machine at your disposal?
