Today’s Random Album of the Day is Keep it Simple from Keb’ Mo’. This is simple blues music and its good.
This is oddly clean and bright for blues. I’m used to songs about how miserable their lives are. These songs are so lovely and uplifting. Which is nice but it does miss that rawness that makes blues so good much of the time. I don’t listen to a lot of blues so maybe that’s just the blues I tend to listen to.
Lyrically I love this album. It is so uplifting. Musically I find it good but I do kind of want more. I think more rawness maybe. But it is good, just perhaps not entirely in my wheelhouse. But it is so uplifting and that’s a plus!
Rating: 8.8
Favorite Track(s): “France” is a nice song. “Let your Light Shine” has a lovely rhythm to it and is uplifting which is nice. Love the lyrics to “Shave Yo” Legs”. “Prosperity Blues” is the most bluesy song yet which is a plus. “Keep it Simple” is good. “I’m Amazing” is so sweet and uplifting!
Keep or Trash: Keep. It’s so uplifting I may just save this for days when I feel low…
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: