Ben Kweller is going to do us the favour, today, of kicking off a new theme – falling – with his song of the same name:
My first encounter with Mr Kweller was at a gig back in my student days. I went along to see Mull Historical Society – who were, frankly, dire – and this chap was supporting. He came onstage wildly strumming a guitar and doing his best country & western yowl.
As one, the audience – stunned into silence – turned their horrified gaze in his direction. A unilateral WTF.
Just as the jeering threatened to begin, he made a seamless transition into breezy-extrabeat-bopalong 'How It Should Be (Sha Sha)'. Mischievously superb.
Not only accomplished in terms of the musicianship on display, his set was also witty and varied. Exactly the opposite, then, of the headliners.
'Falling' was on the EP Phone Home CD that I bought at that gig ... And subsequently reappeared on Kweller's debut album. A lovely, simple, airy pop song.
(His second album, though, is a bit pants. Stick to the first, I recommend.)
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Have you heard the EP Mr. Kweller made with Mr. Folds and Mr. Lee? "The Bens", you see...
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