27-09-2011, 06:40 PM
Having just listened, for only the third or fourth time, to the album cut "Layla", I have fallen in love again with the song, and with Clapton. And just when I was grooving on the beauty of the man on the guitar, in comes this fellow on the horn. I thought it was sweeeet. Could Miles Davis or six other fellows done a better job if they had been there? Perhaps. But they weren't there. Then there is "Joliet Bound" which is just some good old fashioned railroad blues, and there cannot be enough of that (and at 350, there isn't). And then "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" at 12:20; you gotta be there to appreciate that one. And then "Corrine, Corrina". The final 1:25, after the music stops, lets you know you got your money's worth on this album. Taj Mahal tells us.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"