At the request of a certain BDH (Bad Dry Humor, if you weren't a frequent visitor to the Denison weight room last year at around 5 AM), I've been asked to explain the etymology of the title of my blog "Been Down Hearted".
Like many of my quotations and cultural references, this title has a few levels. It's most basic explanation is that it's a quote from the B.B. King song, "How Blue Can You Get?". I am a big fan of B.B. King, and have actually seen him in concert 3 different times. I even got the tickets and program from one of those concerts framed. He's just an amazing artist.
The less well known explanation is that the same lyric is sampled in a fantastic song by a band called Primitive Radio Gods, in their song "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand". I've always felt a bit sad that Primitive Radio Gods never made it 'big time', since Chris O'Connor made some fantastic albums. Honestly, please go out and buy their CD "White Hot Peach", set your CD player on repeat, and listen to "Fading Out". The breath and depth of this band is literally unreal, and I feel they were fantastically underappreciated even by the "underground" music folks.
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the time when I created this little haven of mine on the internet everything in my life was going great, so I really didn't pick a depressing sounding name for effect, even though I may have been sounding like that as of late.
So, there you have it, all my reasons for choosing my title.
