Life is short, even in it's longest days

Been passing some time the past couple days with some old friends....

Oh my goodness, Peoples! Check out this album, Two Men With the Blues! You won't regret it!!!!!!!!!!!! Sweet, sweet New Orleans sound with Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis. It's brilliant. And not just cuz I love Willie. You will find your head bopping, your foot tapping...trust me. And Mickey Raphael on that harmonica???? Lordy, lordy. It's one VERY fine collaboration....and a must have.

And then?


Check out this juicy-ness, John Mellancamp's Life Death Love and Freedom. You gotta listen to the words...a few times...it's good the first time you hear it...by the third time, you're hooked. Really.
John Mellancamp AND T-Bone Burnett?
Y'all know T-Bone's last merge with rock, right? History in the making.

Is there anything finer than when musicians who love the music more than the notoriety find each other? When those with the story to tell forget there are such labels as Rock, Pop, County, Alternative, Blues, Jazz, Rap, Whatever...and all they can hear, and all they can say is that the it's the message and the telling of the story matters?
That is the stuff of legends.