Your life’s journey in music can and should be one of endless discovery.
Music will never lose its capacity to amaze and delight, to move you in a way that can sometimes and somehow feel both surprising and familiar or even inevitable, all at once.
Music is at its most potent when it speaks to you in the present moment.
A piece of music might have been around for years. But today – right now – might be when the universe decides that it’s time for it to touch your heart.
A piece of music might be brand new – it might be being improvised or composed right in front of you, right now – but it feels like it’s been in your heart forever.
Music is always ready to enfold you. To welcome you into its arms. To lift you off your feet.
The music that speaks to me
The music that speaks to me is always changing. I love the feeling of endless musical discovery. I believe that I will never run out of new and wondrous musical discoveries. I love that I can never know when or where I will chance upon that next song that will make my heart soar.
Just this past week, my latest musical discovery made its way into my life, in the shape of a 2019 live performance of Thrill Is Gone by blues guitarist and singer Christone “Kingfish” Ingram. I am by no means a blues aficionado, but I recognise godlike musical genius when I hear it (my wife’s reaction to Ingram’s music was perfect when I played it to her: “Leave some talent for the rest of us!”). You can click to hear this song directly below. Perhaps it will be as joyous a musical experience for you as for me. Or perhaps today is not the day, not yet. Perhaps some other day will be that day.
I love the sheer unpredictability of this path of endless musical discovery. I had never heard of Christone “Kingfish” Ingram before this week, when I heard a wee snippet in Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s (of A Tribe Called Quest) delightful appearance on the Amoeba Records What’s In My Bag? show, discussing records that mean the world to him. I highly recommend watching this episode. He is a lovely gent and this video’s sheer volume of intriguing musicians of whom I’d never even heard promises a wealth of future musical discoveries, for me and perhaps for you, too.
What music means the world to you right now? What is your latest musical discovery?
May you be nothing but kind today, to others and to yourself.
May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
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- Kingfish by RoryDoyle 2 via Wikimedia Commons.
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