Sam Amidon : Relief - Played 617 times.

I have been listening repeatedly to Sam Amidon’s cover of “Relief,” off last year’s I See The Sign, which I picked up recently at the New York Public Library. (I’m back to enjoying the rip and return.) I was going to attempt a succinct appraisal of the merits of the song and the larger scope of Amidon’s work because I’ve was having some thoughts about such things but ho hum. 

Because the other thoughts I’ve been thinking, I’m so over them, and thereby the act of thinking has generally worn me out. Many are legit concerns, but I seem to be also distracting myself with way too many that are garbagey, or it could be that the unwieldy stray thoughts are making themselves more insistent, so it is a windmills of my mind type situation to deleterious effect. 

(I was talking to J. on Saturday about his post-relationship life and at one point he mentioned that A. said I was good at compartmentalizing, which, yes, true and I let the comment pass and man I should’ve walked the conversation back to the topic of me at some point because in what context was it said that I compartmentalize, because I want to distract myself with ruminating about that, and possibly throw some self-censure on top of it, for funsies.)

Plus: I’ve been unable maintain a comfortable temperature for my apartment, and my sleep cycles have been all squibbly. Haaaaayyy summer. 

So, all that needs be said is that Amidon recasts R. Kelly’s slick R&B tune as a hopeful, but not naive, bit of dusty folk shimmer. Hopeful but not naive,that seems to encompass the mood I’ve been aspiring to lately, so I’m going to try and live in that headspace more.