Beth Hart, Tremendous Blues
poem
But Hart not exactly my type.
I start her DVD, “Front and Center,”
2018 NYC. Cruise, familiar
Songs, until Hart launches into
Tell Her You Belong To Me.
Not about a lover, but her Father,
And a woman he left his family, daughter
For. Now, I Leave The Light On,
Scary dark, cigarette burns on arms.
She belts out song, after song.
And so, I’m thinking, how little
We know, how little we know.
In her cage, she’s singing her ass off–
Tattoos, scars, her blue eyes.
© slovitt 2023
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who is Cruise?? St Vincent Beth Hart I googled them, had to. i didn’t know them.
i will abstain from remarking on these brand new musicians.
this seems like a poem part of a trilogy tetralogy
nice influential poem
“cruise” as in a verb, “to go along with the music, listening”
St. Vincent, the name of the band, generally just Annie Clark, grammy winning best alternative album, writer and singer, got interested in her watching a kate bush documentary to which she contributed commentary. smart, odd, serenely off to the side.
this poem is part of a strange flow of new poems, probably occasioned by not imposing the typically rigorous standards of a lifetime that have kept me so unprolific “Z’ poems, etc.
thanks for your comments.
oh i see,
she sounds like a very traumatized being as a child was it an autobiographical song Tell her etc?
having read now the lyrics since Alison also seems to like this song, I must say i saw nothing positive in this song that has no catharsis, no cure, nothing, just repetitive painful memories.
horribly painful non-cathartic song. but your poem was good technically speaking and had this aloofness which saved the day even for Beth now i see some edits and they are ambiguous.
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Hi Pops.
Yes, I never knew anyone who can sing the blues better than Beth. She takes raunchy to previously unseen levels…even beating Janice Joplin…a true ‘one off’
Her song “Tell her he belongs to me” makes me cry every time I hear it.
The vulnerable child exposed…She has the ability to take emotion and distil it into a very potent brew, then share it to her audience.
She’s been at the bottom (as she sings) and her talent leaves an indelible etch on my soul.
Survivors do have inner beauty and wear their scars well.
Alison xx
Alison, O Alison, yes, have 7-8 of her cd’s and her best songs are as good as the blues gets in my world. yes, prefer her to joplin. yes, all survivors are beautiful. Swep