September 24, 2011
Don’t Give Up on Me Now by Ben Harper
One of my favorite songs this summer was Ben Harper’s Don’t Give Up on Me Now. It’s the opening track of his latest album Give Till It’s Gone.
I happened to be in Rome when Ben Harper played a show there. Unfortunately a thunderstorm came and forced them to take a break after two songs. We were all wet and cold and had to leave the venue. It really sucked, but well, it’s not the end of the world to miss a show. It actually turned out to be quite a cool night as we ran into a Canadian couple who had also left the show. Everyone was wet and freezing, but we got to talk about all the music you don’t normally get to talk about here in Europe.
Today I watched Ben Harper play Burn One Down in 1996. Wow, such a long time ago. It’s still a cool song after 15 years. What songs that some relatively unknown artists play today are we listening to after 15 more years? Well, of course no one can know. That’s the cool thing about it. It’s just that after all the years all the fans are looking back and yearning to go back to those years when the artists they love were emerging.
Don’t Give Up on Me Now… I so much dig these lyrics: And I don’t even know myself, what it would take to know myself…
