May 01, 2003

Listen to Ken Layne's "Worried"

Old pal Ken Layne has made one of his fine songs into a mp3. Click here for the link to listen. Too bad I am using a damn slow dial-up connection at the moment and can't listen to it on the internet machine. But thanks be to God, I have "Worried" on CD, along with the rest of "The Monkey Cup" collection.

"Worried" is one of my favorite Ken songs. It always picked up the spirits as it blasted through the headphones when I was waiting alone for a train back to Warsaw in the-middle-of-nowhere, Poland back in the Central Europe day. It sounds as good right now while sipping a beer on an afternoon off in sunny Jersey City.

Back then I was lucky enough to be living in Budapest with Matt Welch and all his tapes of his and Ken's music, and thousounds of other fines songs. The old Barkot Bela flat was a grand spot for music. Hopefully some of the brilliant music that was hanging around that place and the music that was made there will end up on mp3s as well--especially "Springtime in Budapest." What a lovely mean song.

Posted by Jim at May 1, 2003 03:19 PM