I have this image of Paul O’Shea, relaxing in port, Googling himself and finding a week’s worth of posts on my blog about his Royal Caribbean cruise ship piano bar routine.
Mine wouldn’t be the only one, I’m sure. I found several mentions of O’Shea on YouTube and cruise message boards, and he has a Facebook page filled with pictures from his ocean adventures.
I base a lot of my posts on this blog around artists… theme weeks aimed at exploring the evolution of a career, stuff like that. I have mostly pulled from the bands and solo artists I like best, the ones whose new albums I rush out to buy on release day.
But sometimes it’s all about the song. Some songs I love even though I couldn’t care less what the performer did before or since. And I think because they came to me apart from a preexisting relationship they often end up all the more special. That is, the best songs by my favorite artists have to compete with all the other great songs by those artists, but a standalone track gets the pedestal all to itself.
Meet Me In Montauk 