Rob Blackledge

這個世界不缺乏好音樂，而是在于我們發(fā)現沒有。
有些歌手在默默的做著音樂，就如默默的愛。我們聽到的不是真正的音樂不是浮躁于表面的形式，而是內在的感觸。
就好像Rob Blackledge這樣小眾的歌手，除非我們去傾聽他的音樂，否則就沒有其他辦法可以了解。沒有精美的包裝，沒有鋪天蓋地的宣傳，沒有華麗的廣告，沒有唬死人不償命的噱頭。當然，對著這類歌手，估計只有做音樂才能得到快樂。快樂有時候就是他們音樂著之唯一目的。
也許，這樣就夠了。
相信這個歌手大家都不太熟悉吧，《鬼語者》第五季11集的片尾曲用的就是他的everything，當時聽了，驚為天人，于是上網上搜索他的資料，結果令我震驚的是聲音這么好聽的歌手百度居然沒有他的任何資料，wikipedia也沒有，google也少的可憐。
但我相信好音樂是不會被埋沒的，總會有人發(fā)現的，這只是個時間問題。
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.