Ellis Paul: The Realist and The Romantic
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 8:06 am
Listening to the new release again the other day for what must have been at least the thirty three and a third time I heard something new. I was driving down the road as I almost always do with the windows down and the music up when it hit me. The song was River Road on Ellis Paul's latest CD The Day After Everything Changed. I'm singing along and suddenly realize I recognize a lyric from another place in time. For a split second I think of Bruce Springsteen and I think to myself Rock On Ellis Paul. Many artists have given the Nod to Bob. But hangin loose with Bruce. That's original.
The Realist and The Romantic by Peter Gerstzenzang
A short few days pass and up pops the piece linked here. How I missed the Springsteen homage in River Road I will never know. Ordinarily I am on top of these kinds of things with musical heroes. Now I read that the album is full of these musical tributes scattered here and there. I had a hard time imagining that music critics would come down hard on Ellis Paul to say that he must be slipping a bit to have to lean so heavily on others words.
WHAT THE FOLK???
Are they kidding? Music is all about what came before. I will include a few quick examples that come to mind here and ask that others sight any examples they might have heard somewhere else.
George Harrison, so enamored with the newly signed to The Beatles label Apple Records young artist James Taylor that he flat lifted Something in the Way She Moves from one of James' early demos. Took me a while to hear it but when I did I said hmmn, cool. Just last night I heard He's So Fine on the radio. That's the song George Harrison borrowed to create his own song "My Sweet Lord".
Bus time....to be contd...
The Realist and The Romantic by Peter Gerstzenzang
A short few days pass and up pops the piece linked here. How I missed the Springsteen homage in River Road I will never know. Ordinarily I am on top of these kinds of things with musical heroes. Now I read that the album is full of these musical tributes scattered here and there. I had a hard time imagining that music critics would come down hard on Ellis Paul to say that he must be slipping a bit to have to lean so heavily on others words.
WHAT THE FOLK???
Are they kidding? Music is all about what came before. I will include a few quick examples that come to mind here and ask that others sight any examples they might have heard somewhere else.
George Harrison, so enamored with the newly signed to The Beatles label Apple Records young artist James Taylor that he flat lifted Something in the Way She Moves from one of James' early demos. Took me a while to hear it but when I did I said hmmn, cool. Just last night I heard He's So Fine on the radio. That's the song George Harrison borrowed to create his own song "My Sweet Lord".
Bus time....to be contd...