Something a little different tonight, an amateur musician instead of a big name artist.
Once you've played a certain style of music for a while, youtube generates playlists for you containing songs from your favorite genres and artists. My typical evening is spent with a book and one of the playlists or an occasional concert playing in the background.
I'm a huge fan of Townes Van Zandt and have been since I first heard of him way back in the '80s. The guy was a brilliant and prolific songwriter, and only a decent singer if I'm going to be honest, but I like my country music kinda raw and rough anyway. Luckily for me, over the past couple years his family and/or label have been releasing a bunch of his music as singles on youtube.
Okay, once youtube creates a playlist for you, they'll slip in other songs from your favorite artists that other people have covered. A lot of them are just awful, but every once in a while, something catches my ear like this girl did when she covered two of my many favorite Townes tunes.
She's obviously not a professional given the view count on the only two videos she's put out and the fact that her videos are recorded without fancy audio/video equipment instead of in a studio, but it really does my heart good to see youngsters going back to our roots and playing older music.
And as much as I hate to say it because it makes me sound old as fuck, she brings to mind our 17 year old granddaughter entertaining me with my own granddad's guitar when she comes to Tennessee to visit.
Waiting Around to Die (2:33 minutes)
I’ll Be Here In The Morning (2:57 minutes)
