I've Let Myself Get Behind

When I last blogged, I was still all high from the English Beat concert (and no, I don't mean that kind of high).

This past Thursday night, I said to Allan, "I feel fortunate to live here." We were driving back to Lexington from Berea, where we'd just seen Habib Koité and Bamada perform. Allan replied "It's amazing how much great music we've heard in the past week." And he was right. It was a banner week for Lexingtonians Who Love Music. Here's a recap of what we saw:

Friday, April 17: Ellee Ven and Big Fresh at Give Into The Groove.

Saturday, April 18: Robert Schneider, Chico Fellini, Ben Sollee, The Sundresses, and Attempt (a Trevor Tremaine creation, and I can't find a specific link for Attempt), all at CD Central for Record Store Day.

Sunday, April 19: The (English) Beat at The Dame.

Thursday, April 23: Habib Koité (link in French) and Bamada at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.

I've got photos of all the events, but most of them are just hanging out on my hard drive. I did make a Flickr set for Record Store Day. Here's a photo I've posted of Habib Koité.

Allan was right: we've seen an amazing amount of music in the past week.

Music is a balm to my soul; it soothes this savage breast (apologies to William Congreve).

I feel fortunate to live here.

Edit: April 26 also marks the day in 2003 when I decided to stop lurking at the internet radio station I'd been listening to for four months, so I created an account and started commenting. Hoo boy, the website was waaaay different back then. But the important thing is the music. And that's six+ years of aural goodness in my life, and let's not forget that balm thing. Or that soothing thing. 

Comments

[Scott Beveridge]

I like that "No Cigarettes" tune.

[Aly]

Music is the focal point of our home too, so I know what you mean. It seems like there is a soundtrack for every moment around here, and yet nothing is as reinvigorating as seeing it live. I have so little experience with that coming from a small town--and now that I am in a place where stuff is happening all around, I am just blowing my mind. I find that I actually float above the ground for 2 or 3 days after a good show.

[The CEO]

Lexington is really well stocked when it comes to live music. I hope the food was as good as the music. They go together well, you know.

[Margaret]

That's amazing. My older daughter is a big fan of Koite. I'm off to check out the link.

[Suzy]

What a week! And yay for Record Store Day!

[bothenook]

i jealous. and ali, i started listening to the greatest internet radio station in 2002, after the other station Bill ran (KPIG) was forced to go subscription.
and it is a far different place. mainly because I don't hang out on the forums or discussion boards anymore. don't know if it's a good thing or bad, but i found i have a lot more time to do other things, like blog!

[Betty C.]

I got into listening to RP for a bit, then I started buying a bunch of CDs of my favorite artists...it's hard to do it all, and in fact I just posted about that on And So Forth!

[gorillabuns]

i was and always such a fan of the English Beat. I still listen to them on occasion.