Sad Song

Loren Mazzacane Connors and Suzanne Langille – Horse Blues
Playing a sad song is not the same thing as playing the blues. Anyone can play a sad song and make it sound at least somewhat convincing. But unless you’re able to play your song as though you’ve got nothing to lose - as though your life has been fixed from the beginning against all possibility of success - you can't reasonably expect someone to mistake your song for the blues. Personally, I listen to the blues to make me feel better about myself: it reminds me that my life is very good and that, at the very least, I’m not going to break down crying for days on end or lash out in violent anger at any given moment.

I have a feeling that this song is so good because Loren Connors can never be happy. He is sad so that we don’t have to be.
[Buy]