Can one break free from the confines of our present and… travel through time? Maybe. Maybe not! One of our podcast hosts has been watching “Lost” and kinda feels like ANYTHING is possible. Anyway.
What if time travel was about chasing the music you wish you could’ve felt in real time? In this episode we daydream our way into those moments, hearing first notes and electric performances as if they were happening now. It’s complicated, it’s joyful, and it’s all about how music lets us bend time, and, of course, as always, our minds!
Christine, ever the dreamer, picked this theme and the perfect song, time, and place to accompany her vision. She went to February 12, 1924 in New York City at Aeolian Hall for the first performance of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. From the opening clarinet swoop to the dream of showing up in a flapper dress buzzed on bathtub gin, it’s a dreamy vision of live music at its finest. United Airlines be damned, we’re going to the source!
Christina traveled far away and to another distant time to see the Godfather of Soul himself, Mr. Dynamite, the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, the Minister of New Super Heavy Funk… JAMES BROWN at Zaire ’74. Sometimes called the Black Woodstock (or Woodstock for African artists), this event featured some truly incredible acts in addition to James Brown, like Miriam Makeba, Bill Withers, B.B. King, and many more. Christina wanted to be a fly on the wall (or perhaps an owl?) as JB and the JBs put their heart and soul into “The Payback.” Be careful, though… he’s been known to make your liver quiver and your bladder splatter!
Don’t forget… we love to hear your on-theme picks! Send them to us via Instagram or email. We would travel through time to hear them.
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