It's been way too long since I last spoke about the music we play in the store, aside from the Tom Waits weekend we had a few weeks ago.
Fantasy In Glass is not just a store. It is our home for eight hours a day. And we like to play music.
Just not bad music.
We're aware that there is way too much interesting and simulating music out there today, yet the delivery system to get that to many of our customers is lacking. Terrestrial radio is no longer effective. Satellite radio has limited reach. We're all too old for college radio or to understand Bit Torrent or iTunes. So what's left?
Mikey.
Our last great discovery was Little Axe (they just put out a new album too- Bought for a Dollar, Sold for a Dime- a tremendous album, only not highlighted here because we need to expose someone else).
Today we bring you Tony Joe White.
Yes, that Tony Joe White. Of Polk Salad Annie fame.
When he was learning the guitar as a teenager, Tony Joe White would sit on the back porch of his cotton-farming parents' Louisiana shotgun shack, playing Lightning Hopkins. It's this simplicity that TJW has tried to stick to through a lengthy stop and start career and one that shines through brightly in this, one of his best ever- The Shine.
No polished, over-produced product here- this one brings him back to the swamp.
And that voice...
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