I was just thinking of standards and how I came to listen to them. It was summer of 1991. I was 16 years old, a teenager with an unusual musical bent that liked rock n roll, blues rock, soul and folk. I was at an older friend (he was in his 60's maybe I'll touch on this in my website sometime or another) of mine's house who had *a lot* of cd's lp's etc. I was over there visiting and he happened to play something I never heard that made my ears perk up. I *had to know* what was playing, as it was wonderful. To my suprise, it was Natalie Cole's just released album "Unforgettable". I knew who Natalie was, but never heard her sing that kind of music before. I told him how I liked it, that it was a good different. He then played one of Linda Ronstadt's album of standards, and I was hooked. Well then the first album that I bought was not those, but Rickie Lee Jones' 1991 release Pop Pop. Soon after that I ordered an import cd of her Girl at her volcano album. I finally recently bought Natalie's Unforgettable cd (I had bought Take a loo! k and her other 90's albums save for the Holly and Ivy album which I plan on getting tonight). It took my back to that pleasent discovery I made.
James "We come to the river, we'll walk away from all this now, We come to the water, we'll walk away from all this now" Rickie Lee Jones "Flying Cowboys" http://www.geocities.com/thebleachboi/home.html ------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html
