GENTLE ON MY MIND
By Antonio Baile
It may turn out to be a paranoia typical of unconditional Sinatra sufferers but it is not unreasonable, technically speaking, to say that our idolized Frank is sublime in any of the styles he interprets.
In this web, full of repeat patients with each hearing of this colossus, we have traveled to all the musical cafes in the city, delighting ourselves with their swing songs, jazz, ballads, pop, and even rock and roll, children’s songs and even a opera aria, etc… We have listened to our musical reference and we have enjoyed its versatility, sharing the unappealable conclusion that it is the most universal, adaptable and inexplicably perfect Voice that there was and that still lives.
The quality and expressiveness of his interpretations is such that we have mentally envisioned him as in a theater: drunk, dressed as a clown, rocker, black from gospel choirs or any costume necessary to accompany his lyrics in the most faithful way possible with the role. that corresponds to it.
Enjoying this recording of “Gentle on my mind” it didn’t take me long to identify it with rural settings in the south of the United States, surrounded by banjos, harmonicas and on album covers with Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash and others.
The Voice, once again, echoes what I would call the “country edge” or, perhaps to be more barbaric in the definitions, the special “quejío” of country vocalists that so differentiates them from the rest.
Frank, without excess, winks and has details typical of this musical style that, personally, invite me to ask myself the usual question: are we facing another genre in which Sinatra would also have triumphed? Perhaps as a result of the “sinatrera” illness that I mentioned at the beginning, listening to this version I am struck by an image of Frank in Western fashion, with his hat, shirt with pearly studs and, of course, jeans with cowboy boots…and I stable occupying a privileged place among the greats.
The impossible test is not to find ten musical genres that Sinatra perfects but to find just one in which he does not succeed.
Please tell me if I’m the only one sick with “geek” delusions or are there more sick people among us…
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