Okay, nose still on the grindstone and those few weeks previously mentioned might have multiplied under my nose. I will post again in a few more weeks; the work is ongoing. But time for another musical bit while I’m here …
Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing” has what I would call a melancholy structure, its minor chords resolve into major, every 10 bars cycling back through a move from darkness into light, like a sad mood going away. Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and many others have done a worthy job with it, but I think there is one version that stands above all others. That would be Sting’s recording from 1987, which has probably the best guitar solo I’ve ever heard in my life, played by Hiram Bullock.
That’s on the album …Nothing Like the Sun (released 39 years ago this month), but I like to post live recordings, or at least music videos. So here is Sting in concert from the same era, singing in Spanish and with guitarist Dominic Miller doing very well indeed:
