On Listening to Edgar Meyer
Smoke, and bent grass,
the earth rippling underfoot.
A child throwing stones
but never at random.
You wonder that one suggests
laughter, as a second draws tears.
Still, it drags you in.
Like water seeking its level,
a depression that must be fed.
You ride that deep current
never questioning its source,
complete in the moment. Filled.
Edgar Meyer’s music removes me from my body, transports me to another plane, one free of politicians and avarice, a place where truth matters. Today has been a good day to listen, to absorb. And hey, those fellows he’s playing with ain’t too shabby…
O at the Edges 
Agreed! Balm for the soul. Thanks for sharing.
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It is indeed a balm. Edgar Meyer’s musicianship inspires me. It was my pleasure to share this.
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Now on my third listen to this … thank you! Good therapy for anxieties …
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You might search for “One Winter’s Night” by Strength in Numbers (a bluegrass supergroup featuring EM and friends). It’s also good therapy.
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“Like water seeking its level” is exactly how I feel searching for the right song to correct an unnatural day. This one will do today, for sure!
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The right music helps me settle into that calm space.
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This is exactly how I feel about certain music I listen to. Sometimes I stop and ask myself if it’s normal to feel this deep and connected to a song. But then I remember that it’s also okay not to be ‘normal’.
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Yes! But I believe it is natural to respond to art of any kind in this way. Some pieces move us in ways we can’t understand.
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Anisha: to feel so deeply connected to something that you question whether it is normal or not is in itself normal. In fact, feeling “abnormally” connected to music is what musicians feel when they are playing at their best. As a professional musician for 40 years, there have been moments where I felt I wasn’t making music, but that it was coming through me from somewhere else, like I was a conduit through which the Universe was sending out some special thing, i.e. I was not the author of it, nor could I feel like I personally was great for playing it. In cases like that or listening to Edgar Meyer perform music that seems to occur in that same way, it is totally normal, such things happen in the world, just not maybe in the social circles you usually move in. But believe me, to feel “abnormal” is normal when exposed to Edgar Meyer! 🙂
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This topic has me swirling around Love Supreme. Thanks, everyone!
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It is the same with poetry – I frequently feel like a conduit rather than a creator. When asked where a line originated, or even what it means, I often have no satisfying answer, and can feel slightly guilty, as if what issued forth was stolen.
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Good to be alerted to music that invites deep responses, essential (as your poem suggests) for the renewal of the battered psyche!
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Music’s undercurrents work magic on me.
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Yes, go with the flow as they say …
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It can carry us away if we let it.
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I too am a huge fan of Meyer. Some people are ultra virtuosos of technique, but VERY few are “virtuosos” of musicality, of feeling in music. Meyer can do things with your emotions like no other of his generation.
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He has made me feel intense joy and sorrow, has caused me to laugh with some of his humorous musical exchanges. Such feeling!
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I hear you on Edgar Meyer and feel that your words come from the same soul-center as his music.
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He is one of my artistic heroes. I’d be honored to scrape the edges of the same soul-center.
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I especially like these ending lines of deep satisfaction.
“You ride that deep current
never questioning its source,
complete in the moment. Filled.”
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Thank you, Ali. His music has replenished me many times.
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