Rob Blackledge

這個(gè)世界不缺乏好音樂(lè)，而是在于我們發(fā)現(xiàn)沒(méi)有。
有些歌手在默默的做著音樂(lè)，就如默默的愛(ài)。我們聽(tīng)到的不是真正的音樂(lè)不是浮躁于表面的形式，而是內(nèi)在的感觸。
就好像Rob Blackledge這樣小眾的歌手，除非我們?nèi)A聽(tīng)他的音樂(lè)，否則就沒(méi)有其他辦法可以了解。沒(méi)有精美的包裝，沒(méi)有鋪天蓋地的宣傳，沒(méi)有華麗的廣告，沒(méi)有唬死人不償命的噱頭。當(dāng)然，對(duì)著這類(lèi)歌手，估計(jì)只有做音樂(lè)才能得到快樂(lè)?？鞓?lè)有時(shí)候就是他們音樂(lè)著之唯一目的。
也許，這樣就夠了。
相信這個(gè)歌手大家都不太熟悉吧，《鬼語(yǔ)者》第五季11集的片尾曲用的就是他的everything，當(dāng)時(shí)聽(tīng)了，驚為天人，于是上網(wǎng)上搜索他的資料，結(jié)果令我震驚的是聲音這么好聽(tīng)的歌手百度居然沒(méi)有他的任何資料，wikipedia也沒(méi)有，google也少的可憐。
但我相信好音樂(lè)是不會(huì)被埋沒(méi)的，總會(huì)有人發(fā)現(xiàn)的，這只是個(gè)時(shí)間問(wèn)題。
Rob Blackledge could have just as easily been a major league baseball player instead of modern music's next big star.?
Born and raised just outside of Jackson, Miss., Blackledge began playing baseball "as soon as I could walk," he says. But music was also present. "I was raised in the Baptist church, and like a lot of kids from the South, that was my first experience with music."?
In tenth grade he and a band performed for a group of students at a school ministry program. "It was the beginning of an era," he says with a laugh. By his senior year his transformation from ball player to musician was complete. "The desire to play baseball completely vanished," he says.?
Despite attention from colleges and major league scouts, Blackledge made his way to Nashville's Belmont University, a school well known for its music business program. "I wanted to leave Mississippi and try something different," he says.?
Three months into his freshman year, Blackledge entered a school talent competition. The resulting win - and the applause he received from those in attendance - helped him realize he'd made the right decision.?
I walked out on stage, sat down on a stool, played a song, and people went crazy," he says. "That was the first real affirmation that I'd ever really gotten."?
Soon after, Dave Barnes, an accomplished independent artist who had built a successful touring business, invited Blackledge to join him on the road. "I had no earthly idea what I was getting into," Blackledge says now.?
Success came quickly. "I did 100 shows in 2006," Blackledge says. "Most of it was driving around the country in my Pathfinder with a keyboard and a guitar and a bag. It was grassroots."?
Blackledge wrote or co-wrote every song on his debut album, which was produced by Jeff Coplan (The Moffats, Love And Theft). "It's always been and always will be my goal to write the best music that I can possibly write," Blackledge says in terms that would make James Taylor proud.?
His music fits the mold of intelligently crafted pop songs along the lines of Taylor and Guster, but he breaks out of the box with his driving melodies, charismatic vocals, and refreshingly jazz-influenced tunes.?
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anthony Hamilton, Ben Folds and Stevie Wonder are among Blackledge's diverse influences. Hip-hop, R&B and blues also season the music of the man that grew up under the influence of the Mississippi Delta.