"Midnight in Harlem" [3rd track] is off Revelator the debut album by 11-piece blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band released in 2011 by Sony Masterworks. Recorded in Derek and Susan's Swamp Raga Studios in Jacksonville, co-produced by Derek with producer/engineer Jim Scott (Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco), the album is a confident yet unforced triumph offering a cohesive vision: an idyllic, musical world in which the echoes of so many great traditions — Delta blues and Memphis soul, sixties rock and seventies funk — flow together naturally, blending with an entirely original, modern sensibility. The album won Grammy Award for Best Blues Album at the 54th Grammy Awards.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelator_(Tedeschi_Trucks_Band_album)
Susan Tedeschi ( /təˈdɛski/; born November 9, 1970) is an American blues and soul musician, who has received multiple Grammy Award nominations,[1] and is well known for her singing voice, guitar playing, stage presence, and marriage to blues guitarist Derek Trucks. She is also known for her performances as part of "Soul Stew Revival", a conglomeration of her band, The Derek Trucks Band, and assorted other personnel.
Tedeschi served as a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Tedeschi
Derek Trucks is an American guitarist, songwriter and founder of the Grammy Award winning[1] The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999 and formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band in 2010 with his wife Susan Tedeschi. His musical style encompasses several genres and he has twice appeared on Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time; currently 16th on the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Trucks
The audio/video below is from a live performance at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival concert held at Toyota Park in Chicago on June 26 of that year.
The Crossroads Guitar Festival is a music festival and benefit concert first held in 2004 and again in 2007 and 2010. The festivals benefit the Crossroads Centre founded by Eric Clapton, a drug treatment center located in Antigua. The concerts are also intended to be a showcase for a variety of guitarists. All were hand-picked by Eric Clapton himself, who addressed the 2007 audience, saying that each were some of the very best, and those who had earned his respect.
The festival will be held on April 12-13, 2013, at Madison Square Garden [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_Guitar_Festival
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Midnight in Harlem
Well, I came to the city
I was running from the past
My heart was bleeding
And it hurt my bones to laugh
Stayed in the city
No exception to the rules, to the rule
He was born to love me
I was raised to be his fool, his fool
Walk that line, torn apart
Spend your whole life trying
Ride that train, free your heart
It's midnight up in Harlem
I went down to the river
And I took a look around
There were old man's shoes
There were needles on the ground
No more mysteries, baby
No more secrets, no more clues
The stars are out there
You can almost see the moon
The streets are windy
And the subway's closing down
Gonna carry this dream
To the other side of town.
Walk that line, torn apart
Spend your whole life trying
Ride that train, free your heart
It's midnight up in Harlem
--song written by Mike Mattison & Derek Trucks
Comment: Things can always be worse? Love flies. But what's the alternative. You have to keep trying. Emptiness in the pit of your gut or not. Ride that train of life. Free your heart for more & more love. Don't shut down. Be open to the experience. Its the only thing that gives this life meaning. Sometimes you have to just move on.
Sometimes--hope against hope--you might have to wait for another time. The relationship might be good for both of you if you would only get in synch. But if you can't maybe one answer is to find someone as near to the other person as you can get, with their best qualities. Poor substitute? Maybe. Maybe not so poor. Maybe a better fate awaits. Who can say?
But no matter what, keep sending out those love-vibes. No one & nothing can get in the way of souls that need each other striving for harmony.
