Music: Angela Petrilli & The Players
Another tasty track by an artist that I hadn't heard of before. I am truly blessed to have stumbled across Angela and her band playing this Neil Young jam from his Crazy Horse days
Moy journeys through the music, hunting down interesting spurs and left forks on the path, I run across some true gems1.
This artist is no exception. Angela Petrilli & The Players floated by my YT feed and it checked all the boxes. Woman behind the axe, low key “look”, a song that I recognized, and long-ish.
Yep, there was no way I wasn’t gonna mash that play now button.
And boy howdy, what a treat.
First the song. Down by the River is a reasonably well known (by fans at least) Neil Young song. It is one I haven’t heard in a very long time, but it is like, all of the Neil Young and Crazy Horse songs, almost transcendental, ethereal, and dreamy.
Neil Young’s songs are fairly simple in structure, the chords are not challenging, but if you are a guitar player and you took lessons, odds are that you learned a Neil Young song or two. It is a slow jam, with few complicated chords, and they are great to learn to improvise to.
The one I learned was Cortez the Killer. Even now, when I hear that song start I flashback to my late teens. Cortez the Killer is based around a single chord, the almighty E minor.
Angela chose Down by the River, another classic, and an easy song to learn/play. But, do not be discouraged, because she and her band (The Players) take this, and make it an awesome groove, and give us more than eleven minutes of audible bliss.
Don’t believe me? Give it a listen and let me know what you think in the comments:
Yeah, I thought so. I did subscribe because I need to hear more of this.
And surprisingly few stinkers, I guess the algorithmic gods are looking over me.