You are the love of my life, be here now.
- Be Here Now by Mason Jennings

I have so much to catch up on with school and I did the typical J choice, I went to a concert instead. Mason Jennings at the 40 Watt! Bain Mattox and his band opened and they were soo good, and then Mason came...

The venue had set up it's couches and tables in the center of the room, and everyone who wasn't there was just lining the room like curtains line a window. Then like fireflies in the darkness, two girls appeared at stage right. Flutter, flutter, three more at stage left. I grabbed K, my little sparrow, and we flew to the center, like moths who can't fight their attraction to the glowing light.

Mason Jennings isn't just good. He's not just folk music. Mason Jennings is not some guy from Minnesota with a few thoughts on his mind. Mason Jennings is a spiritual experience. He is kinder and more humble that any artist or band you've ever met, and yet he's genuine. He'll make hippies close their eyes and twirl in bliss. He makes young girls swoon with his sexy Minnesota accent. Hell, he makes Minnesota sound like it's the place to come from. Born on a railroad, grew up around the river, imagery to enlighten the blind.

Mason Jennings, live, is a new religion - like my first memory of Sunday school at the new church.



Today's love lesson: How to Get Yourself a Good Southern Girl/ When You Know He's a Keeper

(Southern, European, Chilean, Minnesotan - we'd all fall for this.)

Guys:
Step 1 : Find yourself a girl who likes really good music.
Step 2: Reintroduce the word 'swoon' to her vocabulary.
Step 3: Find a live version of Mason Jennings' last album.
Step 4: Play it in the car, in the kitchen, on the porch, in the bedroom.
Step 5: If she doesn't swoon, she doesn't have a spiritual bone in her body.

Labels: folk, mason jennings, Minnesota, swoon