No matter how stunning any new release might be, after a week or so, I keep returning desperately to my beloved Joad shows, like an addict would for the fix.
Both aspects, the dysfunctional relationships and the socio political themes, are making it irresistible for me to find peace elsewhere. I'm having difficulties identifying exactly how this tour is making me feel. Disillusioned would be the closest, but it's more than that. There's resignation, but it isn't hopeless. Bruce remains warm and caring, and the tour feels like a good friend giving me a strong hug and a kiss on my forehead. On demand.
All other tours are like places I'd go to have fun, maybe even get hurt... Joad is my musical home. I feel so homesick without it, it has outgrown the usual admiration for a particular tour.
I thought I would get tired of it eventually, but I know now this is unlikely going to happen. I'm doomed with Joad, taking a masochistic delight in confronting uncomfortable truths.
Do I need therapy?! Anyone feels similar?
Mario, thanks for posting the Sinaloa Cowboys audio, just fantastic, and it was certanly one of the songs that first grabbed me into the album but to say it was my favourite track on the album is a hard hard call. Jerseyfonia said it best above- "In all the songs on the record, I found some emotion or circumstance that touched me in a very real way." and because of this Sinaloa maybe my favourite today, but maybe Galveston Bay tomorrow and Youngstown the next day, I gave up trying to rank the songs on the album ages ago.