Anyone else listen to Kermit Lynch's music?

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SteveTimko

Steve Timko
Two songs are available on MySpace.



I know this is going to sound like heresy on this wine board, but I don't like them.
My heart tells me Kermit Lynch is returning to a great passion and sang what he feels. My brain, though, is telling me this sounds like a bad affectation, it's not Kermit Lynch's true musical voice. Kind of like when pop stars are in the declining years of their popularity and they decide they want to put a country album out.
Anyone know his musical orientation before he dropped out and went into the wine business.

Joe: When are you recording your album covering Bobby Sherman songs?

Edit: They just added a third song I haven't listened to yet.
 
originally posted by SteveTimko: I know this is going to sound like heresy on this wine board, but I don't like them..
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Have I missed all the threads with adulation for Kermit's music? Why would this be heresy?
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by SteveTimko: I know this is going to sound like heresy on this wine board, but I don't like them..
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Have I missed all the threads with adulation for Kermit's music? Why would this be heresy?
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Yes, there were on Wine therapy but were never moved over here.
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by SteveTimko: I know this is going to sound like heresy on this wine board, but I don't like them..
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Have I missed all the threads with adulation for Kermit's music? Why would this be heresy?
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Yes, there were on Wine therapy but were never moved over here.
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Just hard to criticize someone who means so much to the wine many of us love.
Joe, what are your thoughts on the music? I'm sure Neal Rosenthal would share his thoughts candidly if he was on the board.
 
The music of Steve Edmunds & Kermit Lynch is very much the same. Their terroir is Berkeley in a minor key as per usual. All you have to do is listen.
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Listen UpThe music of Steve Edmunds & Kermit Lynch is very much the same. Their terroir is Berkeley in a minor key as per usual. All you have to do is listen.
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Berkeley in a minor key - 'pretty evocative there, Lou.
Best, Jim
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Listen UpThe music of Steve Edmunds & Kermit Lynch is very much the same. Their terroir is Berkeley in a minor key as per usual. All you have to do is listen.
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That's a miner key, and you're a coal-miner's dogger!
 
originally posted by MLipton:
In certain quarters, I believe that it is Jonatha Brooke.

Mark Lipton

Jonatha Brooke and Boz Scaggs in one thread!

I always felt like I discovered "Silk Degrees" as I was already the happy owner of three of Boz's albums when that came out and I remember saying to someone who was listening to it with me, ah, this is Boz's effort to hit the big time.

Now if we could just find some old Joy of Cooking albums!

ps - dan hicks is in town in a few weeks - too bad it's so far from my house, I'd go
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Back when I worked in wine retail, Joe Wissert (Boz's producer on "Silk Degrees) was a client and he was really into food and wine. One day he came in with a blissful look on his face. I asked him if he'd found Jesus overnight or maybe was coming down from a good acid trip but he said no, he'd only found the greatest food balancing act in his life. "Huh?" said I, and he began waxing rhapsodic about how he'd cooked up some Rustichella linguine, took it out of the water and put it into a bowl with three cloves of uncrushed garlic and five medium-sized basil leaves and tossed it with some fleur de sel and a little extra virgin olive oil that had been smuggled into the country from Italy two days previously. He let it all steep in the heat of the just-boiled pasta and after three minutes he had removed the garlic and basil leaves and served it with a Chianti. He said that the hint of a suggestion of basil and garlic allowed the flavors of the pasta, salt, and oil to mingle in a most inspiring manner.

At that point in my life I had an appreciation for such an epiphany but little inclination to seek it out for myself, so Joe's experience was just another "it takes all kinds" moment in my career as a salesperson. Little did I know then, but it was sort of as if I'd had a Florida Jim moment a couple of years before I actually met Florida Jim. Life's funny like that sometimes...

-Eden (Wissert's hand as a producer was appropriately subtle on "Silk Degrees". The arrangements are pretty sparse, with each instrument providing memorable motifs -er...hooks- that stick with the listener. The key elements of the album are the songs and Scaggs' voice, all of which hold up really well 20+ years after record's release. The albums mix reinforces the space in the arrangements, all testimony to the collaboration of Boz and Joe in one of that decades most celebrated pop recordings)
 
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