1 Gotta Keep Walking 2 The World That I Wanted 3 We Can Be Strong 4 Save Myself 5 I Can’t Sleep 6 Riptide 7 When The River Moves On 8 If The Ocean Gets Rough 9 Simple Town 10 The End of the Race 11 When the Leaves Have Fallen
Filho de pais músicos do estilo folk, o nova-iorquino Willy Mason não esconde suas origens. O álbum If the Ocean Gets Rough é uma boa mistura de folk, blues-rock e country com toques de modernidade. A voz de Willy Mason é marcante e combina bem com as letras emotivas que versam sobre família, morte, sonhos e o mar. É uma pena que trata-se de um trabalho irregular: algumas músicas se parecem e ainda temos refrões bem repetitivos. De qualquer forma, podemos encontrar aqui momentos de rara beleza, como a quase perfeita Riptide. 7/10
Na ativa desde 1959, Bob Dylan é um cara que dispensa comentários. Ele é um dos nomes mais conhecidos e influentes do mundo da música. A sonoridade de Bob Dylan transita pelos mais diversos estilos, do folk ao rock, do blues ao country e assim por diante. Aliás, essas várias facetas dele foram exploradas de maneira interessante no filme “Não Estou Lá“. A vasta carreira do cantor nos proporciona uma infinidade de obras-primas, uma delas é essa que disponibilizo aqui.
Changing Of The Guards (do álbum Street Legal – 1978)
Sixteen years
Sixteen banners united over the field
Where the good shepherd grieves
Desperate men, desperate women divided
Spreading their wings ’neath the falling leaves
Fortune calls
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down
She’s smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
On midsummer’s eve, near the tower
The cold-blooded moon
The captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid
They shaved her head
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn’t help but follow
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
I stumbled to my feet
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending ’neath a heart-shaped tattoo
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I’d given to you
The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected
The endless road and the wailing of chimes
The empty rooms where her memory is protected
Where the angels’ voices whisper to the souls of previous times
She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks
She’s begging to know what measures he now will be taking
He’s pulling her down and she’s clutching on to his long golden locks
Gentlemen, he said
I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes
I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
Peace will come
With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords
