{"id":1828,"date":"2016-07-21T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2021-10-31T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:31:42","slug":"glory-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/glory-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory of Love (Joseph Spence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KuMkoS0qQJg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before heading to Europe, I sat down with my records and made four or five cassettes that served as my music library for the next couple of years. I had various criteria for choosing the cuts, but most were songs or guitar parts I wanted to learn. It was a pretty good method, since with so few options I heard those tracks over and over, and kind of absorbed most of them by osmosis.<\/p>\n<p>There were some, though, that involved concentrated attention, and I still remember the two days<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1831 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/annecy-005.jpg?resize=300%2C223&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/> I spent working on this one, in a small bedroom in Annecy, France. I&#8217;d spent a month there when I was sixteen as part of an exchange program &#8212; I&#8217;ve written about part of that trip in my post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/suzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; and when I headed north from Spain I decided to stop through and see if I could find my host family. I can&#8217;t remember their name, but the mother was a judge and the son was named Etienne, and memorably took me out riding on the back of his moped one night, went down a steep hill, and turned into a street that had a metal barrier across it at night&#8230; with the result that I scraped the skin off one side of my face and came near losing an eye, while he was walking with crutches for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>They had moved, but a neighbor gave me their address, I showed up at the door, and the mother welcomed me and invited me to stay a few days. Typically, having the chance to spend some time in one of the loveliest parts of France, a famous vacation destination with a lake and rivers and beautiful old stone houses, I spent that visit holed up in my room learning how to play a Joseph Spence arrangement &#8212; the only local culture I picked up was when the mother came in one day having found fresh donkey meat at the market, and made steak tartare, which apparently is best made from donkey&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>None of which <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1832 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/spence-mr-walker.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/spence-mr-walker.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/spence-mr-walker.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>has anything to do with Joseph Spence or &#8220;Glory of Love,&#8221; but it&#8217;s etched in my memory because I had never attempted to learn anything like this off a recording before, and I found that I could actually do it. It wasn&#8217;t perfect, and I&#8217;ve added a lot of Spencifications since that I didn&#8217;t get on that first pass, but it was a breakthrough and started me off on one of my favorite musical journeys.<\/p>\n<p>(For those who want more\u00a0 on my attachment to Spence, I&#8217;ve posted my recollections and versions of his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/sloop-johnb\/\">Sloop John B<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/sloop-johnb\/\">Brownskin Gal<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wing-and-a-prayer\/\">Coming In on a Wing and a Prayer<\/a>,&#8221; and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/spence-medley\/\">medley of his arrangements of Bahamian hymns<\/a>, and have a full page about him and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/spence.html\"> my instructional DVD on his style<\/a>. As for &#8220;Glory of Love,&#8221; it&#8217;s been done by dozens of people, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I got the lyric from Werner Lammerhirt&#8217;s recording, discussed briefly in my post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/kokain\/\">the German version of &#8220;Cocaine Blues<\/a>.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before heading to Europe, I sat down with my records and made four or five cassettes that served as my music library for the next couple of years. I had various criteria for choosing the cuts, but most were songs or guitar parts I wanted to learn. 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