Various Artists - Adios Amigo： A Tribute to Arthur Alexander (1994)

This last-century compilation has many sweet treats. Alexander was a prolific and skilled songwriter whose "Anna" and "You Better Move On" may be familiar to you if you're up on your first-wave British Invasion top brass.

The roster here is filled with power players too: Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Robert Plant, Graham Parker, Nick Lowe just to skim the cream. These and more all get a chance to take a swing at their favorite Alexander songs, and, by and large, this collection hits the target way more than it misses.

I say "compilation," but these tracks were recorded especially for this disc, further indication of the esteem Arthur Alexander is granted by his peers in the craft of songwriting.

Giving it a spin for the first time in a while and it is working for me.

 

There's something going on here and I don't know what it is, do I?

Mr Jones here, checking in. Clueless as always. It's been a very strange era in my life. Living on my own for 280 days now. Just me and Finn McCool and my messes and projects and thoughts filling this house. I find myself going down blind alleys and emotional storm drains pretty often. I heard someone mention doing their morning pages as prescribed by The Artist's Way earlier this evening and that sounds like something I should try doing. Along with hitting the gym, meditating, eating right and getting enough sleep. The list of stuff I ought to be doing is getting as long as my arm.

Thank god for friends and fellows who will listen to my repetitive bewildered accounts of who am I what am I where am I where am I headed etc. Must get boring to listen to. Gets boring to say.

Maybe better times ahead. Maybe worse? To quote the loudmouth in the back of the Perry St. clubhouse "You'll find out!"

I'll find out.