Havoc and Bright Lights marked a rebirth for Alanis Morissette, the first album she recorded as a newlywed mother. Delivered a full eight years later, Such Pretty Forks in the Road is the second act of the story, an album about learning how to find contentment at middle age. Morissette wrestles anxieties, origin stories, addictions, parenthood, and partnership throughout the record, searching for reasons and a diagnosis, achieving a sense of peace with having her sense of calm being disturbed on occasion. Appropriately for an album that's decidedly focused on an inward journey, Such Pretty Forks in the Road simmers, never boils. Hooks force themselves into the center stage on "Reasons I Drink" -- the rare tune here that could be called catchy -- but otherwise melody takes a back seat to mood. This doesn't necessarily mean Morissette's words are pushed into the spotlight. Such Pretty Forks in the Road is lacquered in immaculate gloss, a sound that accentuates the interior journey of the songs without quite inviting exploration. A close listen reveals all the troubles rolling around Morissette's mind, but the nice thing about Such Pretty Forks in the Road is how its smooth, placid surface makes the record feel like an album-length guided serenity meditation.Side A1. Smiling2. Ablaze3. Reasons I Drink4. Diagnosis5. Missing The Miracle6. Losing The Plot
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Mastered impeccably by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios and Capitol Records in Hollywood, CA, this amazing album will also be manufactured for RSD Black Friday on first time 180g Audiophile Translucent Blue Vinyl. To further enhance your Sir Richard Starkey listening experience, this super limited edition audiophile album will also be housed in a striking gatefold cover with rare photos and lyrics not seen in years.
"A solid relationship is when someone has your back and will stand by your side no matter what," explains Boney James about the title of this album. 'Solid' is the four-time GRAMMY nominated, multi-platinum selling saxophonist's seventeenth album as a leader. It follows up his smash 2017 release 'Honestly' (which became his eleventh #1 Billboard Contemporary Jazz Album). With eleven original songs and featuring R&B star Kenny Lattimore on the single "Be Here", the record is an uplifting collection. Says James, "This new music is a reaction to how stressful the world feels these days. Music is a respite, it's always 'solid' and it never lets me down.
They care not for the smoke of many chimneys, or thesurging crowd or the ceaseless din of commercial centers.They love the view from mountain tops, where hills peepover hills and pinnacles are clothed in clouds. They lovethe peace and quiet of the sheltered coves; where thetimber grows verdant and strong, fern-bordered fountainsburst forth to life, and the squirrels and other freethings dwell. They love a home site in a secluded valleynear the head of a gurgling, restless, mountain river andthink to live a life of peace, dividing the glories of mountainand plain. But wherever man would rest and hidehis head and heart, giant care comes with a club and thehuntress misfortune finds her way with a full quiver.
"We are at home, John. The garden makes me youngagain and I see your father's face in your own. It is asthough God had given me the two in the one body. John,brush off the bench and let us sit here and watch theshadows lengthen and fade and the coming darkness add[Pg 49]zest and brilliance to the full moon. Then we'll go to thehouse hand in hand and you can help with the supper.You are not too hungry to wait a bit, John?"
"How the place is improved! The grounds were alwaysdelightful; now the whole is toned and in concord;a very delightful picture. There is your mother at thedoor waiting for her John. The woman who takes youoff her hands gets an armload of responsibility. A manalways compares his wife with his mother and you, John,will expect your wife to love and mother you as she hasdone."
"We are scarcely acquainted, Mr. Saylor. Thoughwe have been neighbors for years, you have denied methe pleasure of your visits. You know a girl can not callupon a man. How do you know that you love me as youshould? I have never thought about you as a husband,though I find your company most agreeable. You mustgive me another week before you press for an answer."
"Mary, mother is a little, old woman with a wonderfullybig, young heart and a grand soul filled with tendernessand grace and love. There's not a joy in all theworld she would not share with you. When she sharesyour sorrows, night changes quickly to the dusk of morningand as the day comes they flit away like shadows onthe dewy grass. When she sees you she will kiss youand cry a bit and call you 'John's wife' for a day andthen it will be 'Mary dear.' Were you a stranger, whosename had never been mentioned, she would take you in,first for my sake, then love you for your own. One dayI said: 'Mother, your aim in life seems to be to live forand wait on me.' 'No, John, my aim in life is to livelike Him!' She has kept some of earth's clay out ofmy soul."
Bright pair of boundless wing and sweet song, didyou first meet here? You did not come together. Howdid the king mark the way for his queen? Have yousearched all the way from Panama, your winter home,for this old elm, to celebrate your bird marriage, passyour honeymoon and find much joy in nest-building andrearing a family? Do you know tears and night andnothingness? Or have you found and eaten of the fruitof the trees of life and eternal love?
"On the morrow at sunrise you will be strangled todeath, after which your body will be delivered to me fordisposition. When it is carefully embalmed I shall placeit in a new tomb in the temple of Amun and it shall becomesacred to him. The tomb is so constructed that lightand air penetrates through slits in the portal and it maybe entered from the temple by members of our order.Amun will permit your soul to occupy and grow in your[Pg 207]mummied body. You have said you are not afraid ofdeath. Neither you nor any other man knows what liesbeyond. It is not the end of things as you declare butthe beginning of the thought life. Living through theages in your old shell you shall learn that the infiniteis the author of all things and from the order and harmonyof nature you shall deduce the existence of Godand the immortality of the soul. You shall learn thatthe soul is an immaterial being which can go where thebody can not and can live where the body cannot live andis so sometimes punished. That its controlling force is notthe body nor even the mind but a power which pervadesall space, which has existed from the beginning, lookingafter the universe and each creature therein. This is theinfinite, the beginning, the end of all things, which, lackinga better name and light to discern, I call Amun, TheGreat, The Only One. The wind has not a body, yet youknow the wind blows; light has not substance, yet you feeland see it and know it comes from the worlds in theskies. Your soul has existed from the beginning as apart of the infinite. It came into existence as the angelsof light and darkness. It is of the size of the faith thatis in you and yours is quite small. Yours shall grow duringthe ages, as Amun is about to begin its experience,which each soul is to have, though the experience giveneach is different, being judged and punished or rewardedaccording to the light given, which in every case is dim.You are first to be turned over to Phtha, the great fatherof beginnings. Your little seed of a soul, assuming theform of a beetle, shall remain in your mummified body.Your embalming robes shall be decorated with his sign,the scarabeus. Your body will be carefully watched byour priesthood to observe the growth of your soul andknow that you finally believe in its existence and the[Pg 208]infinite power of God. You shall pass through the valleyof humiliation, living as the Chelas live upon your ownsoul. Your suffering shall bring improvement andgrowth until your soul shall prove sufficient unto itself,since it shall know God and itself. Finally it shall partcompany with your mummied body and become a partof the light of the world."
"As we grow in strength, we may expect persecutionto grow. Now Rome looks upon our faith as a Jewishsect. When it is understood that it is a religion distinctfrom Judaism, then persecution will begin in earnest.Then you will be blamed for pestilence, famine and othernational calamities and be offered as martyrs for yourfaith. Then must we glory in tribulation, knowing thattribulation worketh patience and patience experienceand experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed becausethe love of God is shed about in your hearts.
"The corporal in charge, who had little love for monksand friars, turning to them said: 'You are three bigstrapping fellows to be supported by charity. You shouldbe working in the fields or else helping us fight for thechurch. Why they pay us to do their fighting instead[Pg 252]of training you for that purpose I will never understand.Either one of you looks as strong as a bull and with thathabit in the ditch, a helmet on your head, wearing corseletand sword you might pass as a soldier. Here cometwo more of your order; not only the cities but themountains are full of you. No wonder there is so muchpoverty in Bologna and Florence.' 2ff7e9595c
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