Where The Light Is

I don’t do music reviews on this blog. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I’ve ever done one. But, as many of you know, I love music. L.O.V.E. it!!! Music just hits right through to the soul for me. I’m not sure why, it just does. Perhaps it’s the frustration thing that I’ve got going on with not being musically inclined whatsoever, but I’m thinking it might just be the words and the way they’re put to the music. I don’t know. But I do know that I don’t like to push what hits home for me on to others. It’s an individual kind of thing.

But…here we go.

For the last little while, well, since Mother’s Day, Alicia Keys has been in the CD player, both here and in the car. Her new CD, As I Am, is truly an awesome thing. It’s like she took a look at my life (and all the other women my age!!) and managed to find the diaries of all us and put what she read in those diaries to music and make it a truly outstanding thing! It has had such an impact on me that I cannot even begin to explain.

But sorry Alicia, it’s time to get the hell out of Dodge! (Or in my case, the Cav!)

I picked up the new John Mayer CD today. And yes, I also picked up the DVD. It’s called “Where The Light Is, John Mayer, Live in Los Angeles”. You see, John did a show at the Nokia in LA late last year (actually two of them) and it was him playing acoustic, and then the John Mayer Trio and then John with his full band. And they recorded it. And now they’ve released it.

And it is some kind of KICK ASS CD!!!!

If you’re not a John Mayer fan and all you know of him is the pop that’s been played on the radio, and think you might want be a little adventurous, I suggest you head on out and get this CD. At least the CD. Because once you get the CD, you’re gonna want to go out and get the DVD. To see this man play is, well, words cannot describe it. He is outstanding! Wait, what am I talking about, I haven’t seen this DVD yet....But I have seen him live and in person and in far too many YouTube videos...isn't that what lunch hours are for? And his Any Given Thursday DVD is unlike no other.

So, I put the first disc in and was listening while I was making dinner tonight. After the second track I sooo wanted to put the DVD in. But, I made this incredibly stupid promise to myself that I would wait. Listen to the CD first and then put the DVD in. The acoustic portion is wonderful. The Trio portion is wonderful. The full band is wonderful! It’s all sunshine and rainbows people, just go out and buy it.

And, just so you know, because I know you want to, I’ll be watching the DVD tonight. Me, all by myself, with the big screen and the surround sound. SG knows not to interrupt me and John! Besides, there’s four other TV’s in this house and they can pick and choose amongst themselves.

Where The Light Is, John Mayer, Live in Los Angeles….hurry, go out and get it.