…and the loveless who fear.
Wisdom from The Flatlanders.
New York City is not the place where you’d expect to hear great country music, but on a Tuesday night in Gotham, in the middle of Times Square, B.B. King’s was filled with the music and wisdom of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock: The Flatlanders.
A business colleague, her college friend and I ventured out on a beautiful night in the city to catch the Zen Cowboy and his companions play a rollicking set of Texas country music. The tunes were great with all three stars taking turns showcasing their work. As they neared the end of the show, The Flatlanders worked in Gilmore’s Dallas – a wonderful song – and then rocked it out with the Townes Van Zandt tune White Freightliner before closing the show with Pay the Alligator.
A night full of energy and great music. Enjoy the video below of The Flatlanders playing – appropriately enough – in New York City on a recent Letterman show.
More to come…
DJB
My colleague, Anthea, who was at the show with me, sent along this note to my Facebook page. I thought I’d post it on the blog as well for those who read it in this venue:
fellow, gentle readers, here are the lyrics to “Borderless Love,” particularly poignant for we who live on the borderlands:
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Walking the line between pleasure and pain
Biding my time between loss and gain
I’ve run out of roads, I’ve traveled them all
Down at the border by the one-sided wall
Down at the border, facing that wall
Racking my brain for the cause of it all
No one to point to, no one to blame
I can’t be the only one stuck in this game
Borderless love, the land of the free
Borderless love, how far can you see?
Borderless love, there’s no border at all
In a borderless love there’s no need for a wall
When I feel what I feel, when I see what I see
Why do my heart and my head disagree?
A one-sided wall, is it all in the mind?
Who can see more than one side at a time?
A wall is a mirror that can only reveal
One side of a story that passes for real
But break it all down, it all becomes clear
It’s the fearless who love and the loveless who fear
Borderless love, the land of the free
Borderless love, how far can you see?
Borderless love, there’s no fear at all
In a borderless love there’s no need for a wall
Over, under, around and through
Life is love and love is true
Over, under, around and through
Walls of thunder, skies of blue