I love this song. I love its humility and tenderness, its insight, its sung expression of patience.
It's anthemic quality, I find, is infectious, uplifting. And, in my view, Kevin Johansen has managed to create a real pearl of a song, through the device of fusion, a success that not many artists seem unable to pull off, without appearing to be imitating a style, or another artist.
"Down with my Baby" has, to my ear, a quality like - Nick Cave meets the Mamas & the Papas, while channelling Barry White and Lenny Kravitz. AND, his brilliance in the finished product is that it doesn't sound derivative, nor at all like an imitation.
The gentle wisdom of the lyric, ''Now you know, that you belong to yourself...'' , speaks from the voice of lived, conscious experience.
I love this song. I love its humility and tenderness, its insight, its sung expression of patience.
It's anthemic quality, I find, is infectious, uplifting. And, in my view, Kevin Johansen has managed to create a real pearl of a song, through the device of fusion, a success that not many artists seem unable to pull off, without appearing to be imitating a style, or another artist.
"Down with my Baby" has, to my ear, a quality like - Nick Cave meets the Mamas & the Papas, while channelling Barry White and Lenny Kravitz. AND, his brilliance in the finished product is that it doesn't sound derivative, nor at all like an imitation.
The gentle wisdom of the lyric, ''Now you know, that you belong to yourself...'' , speaks from the voice of lived, conscious experience.
Again, I love this beautiful pearl of a song.