I’m writing this post at 6:35 AM, and I cannot sleep. I am pretty much fucking myself over for my long day today. I got a test too, but I am not too worried about it.
While divulging in insomniac activities like checking how my blog’s traffic ranks among the world, and reading various other music blogs I was stumbling upon the fact that there are so many out there, that it is impossible to keep up with all of them. I never realized how there is such an abundance of blogs out there, mostly posting the same stuff too. It seems like everyone has a music blog now, posting thousands of posts, with just mp3s. This makes me wonder if anyone actually reads what I type. Does my traffic consist of mp3 hunters or avid music listeners who are willing to listen to a 19 year kid voicing his opinion on modern music. I guess most people are just looking for the mp3. Hmm…I am ranting again, sorry.
I have looked through my itunes for some of the decades finer tunes and I just stumbled across a clear cut. It is Josh Ritters masterpiece “Thin Blue Flame”. It is a 9 minute epic country/Americana song that is probably overlooked by 98% of music fans out there. This song is made up of everything that is right in music. Every single minute of “Thin Blue Flame” is used to compose beautiful sounds. This song, builds, and builds, to an undeniably beautiful climax. I could go on and on about why I love this song, but I will let Josh Ritter do the talking. This has to be one of my favorite songs of the entire decade.
[mp3] : Josh Ritter – Thin Blue Flame
I have all of Josh Ritter’s albums, yet I seem to stick to the same few songs. I really need to concentrate on his albums more, because they consist of some of the finest songs of this decade. I think that Josh Ritter may truly be one of the most overlooked artists in music, period! “Thin Blue Flame” is off of the 2006 album The Animal Years. Buy it here.
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