Friday, April 19, 2024

House of love

Julianne, with the expert backup of her highly polished Bluegrass string band, pleases mightily with the lead vocals in a new video covering that old soft rock standby, Our House, by Crosby, Stills Nash & Young.

We can be nearly certain that Julz chose this old 1970 number, showing that she makes a strong contribution to her band, the Petersens.

Of the whimsical footage at the end, Ellen (probably) writes, "Don't try and analyze the outro. It truly was spontaneous and there was no thought behind it haha. Just take it for what it is and maybe someday Katie will find what she is looking for..."

Well, playing Dr. Freud anyway, note that Mom is reading a bit about some -- presumably older -- guy thinking he rates a young woman. Along with that is Katie supposedly looking for something that isn't there -- which we can interpret as herself. I.e., she is not available.

Ha ha.

As Dr. Freud might put it, "Truly spontaneous is not truly spontaneous."

You can poke around their sites and find the running joke about Katie fleeing the UPS driver whom she accidentally waved at.

But of course the more important point is that the little cabin in some Ozarks park is full of familial love. It's a real house of love, that is.
UPDATE: Oh gosh! Their most recent video nixes off their usual bit of whimsical nonsense for the outro credit roll. They shouldn't take whimsy in reviews so seriously!

But I guess whimsy can backfire. Poor Julianne evidently had to cut off an outro with a wisecrack about her Beatles "co-writers" after being besieged by humorless nim-nods.
From Wikipedia, we learn:

Our House was written by the British musician Graham Nash and recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their album Déjà Vu (1970). The single reached No. 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 20 on the Cash Box Top 100. The song, an "ode to countercultural domestic bliss," was written while Nash was living with Joni Mitchell.
Lead vocals, mandolin: Julianne Petersen
Harmony vocals: Emmett Franz, Katie Petersen, Ellen Petersen, Matt Petersen
Bass fiddle: Karen Petersen
Dobro: Emmett Franz
Guitar: Matt Petersen
Banjo: Ellen Petersen
Fiddle: Katie Petersen
Scarface Julz: Absolutely smashing!

Julianne was injured in a traffic accident some months back but bears her scar with fortitude.

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