Lena Horne

On a day where I am ready to toss in the towel and say fuck it all a record like Lena Horne comes up for the day. I just found out that the MRI was inconclusive so I get to go let some new doctor slice open my thighs and feed tubes up to my brain to take a slice of it. Hope he finds something besides dead matter up there. So I am tired and feeling mildly defeated today.  I would like once to have something be easy. Whoever said you don't appreciate the things that come easy was on crack. I have fought for everything I have in my life and I am damn tired of fighting my body to do it. 

I don't usually let myself have a pity party and certainly not publicly but with Lena crooning in my ear "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen" that just begs me to let go and let the walls down a bit. My mother in law told me once that you just got to let yourself feel and wallow and dwell because it helps you feel better to feel bad. I usually don't let myself do that but she's right. Sometimes when you just feel so bad you want to shut out the world its ok to just feel it. I think it helps you appreciate the good times just a lil bit more. 

This record is a must have for any good vinyl collection. Her voice is pure and beautiful and  sultry and liquid sex all at one time. Whisper me how much you need me then just squeeze me sweet and gentle when you say goodnight. That's her mantra on this album.  Frankie and Johnny what a great song one of the story telling type.  What a jackass Johnny was to mess with Frankie. Talk about a woman scorned. I imagine this could have caused quite the ruckus back in its day. This is basically an instruction manual on how to kill your cheatin no good man.  Maybe the Dixie Chicks listened to a little Lena for influence on "Earl Had to Die".  

Lena Horne

• Whispering
• Just Squeeze Me
• More Than You Know
• Nobody Knows the Trouble I've seen
• Frankie and Johnnie
• Beale Street Blues
• Blue Prelude
• Old Fashioned Love
• At Long Last Love
• Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
• Hesitating Blues

After the last few days of records I would say I recommend this one without the slightest of reservations. If you have never heard Lena find her right now, today, and let yourself sway and feel miserable and wonderful all at the same time as her sultry voice sings the blues we all sometimes feel.