I GOT THE BLUES

Levi Johnston's Blues by BenFolds

Happy Monday, Folks! I hope you all had an amazing weekend. It was a hot one here in Southern California, making it incredibly difficult to leave my cool house, but I managed to get out and do some fun things and stay cool in the process.


Now it's Monday and I have the blues...check out this little ditty from Ben Folds + Nick Hornby.  It's called "Levi Johnston's Blues."  It's amazing!!

Lonely Avenue, a collaboration between two eminent artists—American singer-songwriter Ben Folds and English novelist Nick Hornby—will be released September 28 on Nonesuch Records.

“Lonely Avenue has its own voice, which comes from some place between the two of us,” says author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and now lyricist Nick Hornby of his collaboration with singer-songwriter Ben Folds. Echoes Folds, “I felt like I’d found something rare on eBay or something. Nick should have done it before but it’s his first big effort and I feel like I really scored here.”

In their respective media, Folds and Hornby have eloquently illustrated the power that a humble pop song can wield to assuage loneliness or accentuate longing, to offer a pat on the back or a shoulder to cry on. Hornby—who has garnered a devoted following and consistent critical acclaim for such alternately hilarious and heartbreaking music-themed novels as High Fidelity, About a Boy and the more recent Juliet, Naked—sent over sheets of lyrics to Folds from London. The agile Folds—who first gained notice with the success of his guitar-less power pop trio, The Ben Folds Five, at the height of the grunge era—then set Hornby’s words to music at the Nashville studio he’s worked in for the last ten years, a venerable old orchestral room once owned by RCA.