I havent been so addicted to a single CD in a long time.  I usually listen through, and enjoy pretty much everything i listen to but I'm also very aware of the fact that there is just so much i haven't heard and I'm always trying to get to the next CD.  I just got my hands on a whole bunch of old blues, and "King of The Blues" by Albert King, which I'm guessing is a best of, has been on repeat on my ipod for days.  I just havent wanted to listen to anything else.  When I'm home and my ipod is in the car, I've been listening through all of Buddy Guy's recordings, as well as Robert Johnson and more, and its amazing.  It feels good to finally get it.

I always understood the blues in it's position at the root of modern jazz and rock, but I never really got into it.  i find that alot of times for me it's hard to turn off the musician in my head and just listen.  I'm always taking things apart and figuring out how theyre doing it while i listen, but when it comes to these blues greats, there is no illusions, and there's nothing to take apart.  I can just sit back, enjoy the lyrics, and the sheer virtuosity of the playing..... without my stupid mind getting in the way.  i love it.  

This site is really cool. Thanks alot Jessie K for telling me about it,

...and thanks to the people at TheOneLove for giving me a blog!

Real quick I just wanted to talk about my charity...

I've always felt very strongly about the necessity of music education in schools.  a hundred years og we didnt need music education as badly because EVERYONE was a musician!  it wasn't such a crazy thing to talk about being a singer, because it's just something everyone did for fun all their life.  Music was everywhere and you couldn't help but learn about it.  Now, music has become such a business that runs on the fact that people believe that they CANT play music, that the only way to prove the industry wrong is through standardized education.

That is why I support music ed. there are a million other reasons though:

Kids who play an instrument generally do much better in ALL of their other subjects, especially math and science.  Music is such a bridge subject. it brings everything together, the structure of math and science and the emotion of literature and history.  It can't do anything but help!

Kids who study music, are often much less stressed than those who don't.  I think we al know how much music can be a stress relief.  It is vital for some people just to LISTEN to music... think about how therapeudic making it can be!

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Listen, I feel very strongly that the money neeeeds to be there for every school to have a music program, but that doesnt mean that I think it should be forced down a kid's throat.  Music is here for our enjoyment, and nothing more!  I dont take myself so seriously to think that what I do is vital to our existence.  It's not.  everyone can live without music.  we just don't want to.  So, i think music ed should help kids on their own path of development and not set such rigid hoops for them to jump through like many schools do.  The only thing that matters in music is how much fun you are having!

So that's my rant for today.  from now on i'm gonna try to keep this blog more fun-oriented haha

love, Bryce