Rob Blackledge

这个世界不缺乏好音乐，而是在于我们发现没有。
有些歌手在默默的做着音乐，就如默默的爱。我们听到的不是真正的音乐不是浮躁于表面的形式，而是内在的感触。
就好像Rob Blackledge这样小众的歌手，除非我们去倾听他的音乐，否则就没有其他办法可以了解。没有精美的包装，没有铺天盖地的宣传，没有华丽的广告，没有唬死人不偿命的噱头。当然，对着这类歌手，估计只有做音乐才能得到快乐。快乐有时候就是他们音乐着之唯一目的。
也许，这样就够了。
相信这个歌手大家都不太熟悉吧，《鬼语者》第五季11集的片尾曲用的就是他的everything，当时听了，惊为天人，于是上网上搜索他的资料，结果令我震惊的是声音这么好听的歌手百度居然没有他的任何资料，wikipedia也没有，google也少的可怜。
但我相信好音乐是不会被埋没的，总会有人发现的，这只是个时间问题。
Rob Blackledge could have just as easily been a major league baseball player instead of modern music's next big star. 
Born and raised just outside of Jackson, Miss., Blackledge began playing baseball "as soon as I could walk," he says. But music was also present. "I was raised in the Baptist church, and like a lot of kids from the South, that was my first experience with music." 
In tenth grade he and a band performed for a group of students at a school ministry program. "It was the beginning of an era," he says with a laugh. By his senior year his transformation from ball player to musician was complete. "The desire to play baseball completely vanished," he says. 
Despite attention from colleges and major league scouts, Blackledge made his way to Nashville's Belmont University, a school well known for its music business program. "I wanted to leave Mississippi and try something different," he says. 
Three months into his freshman year, Blackledge entered a school talent competition. The resulting win - and the applause he received from those in attendance - helped him realize he'd made the right decision. 
I walked out on stage, sat down on a stool, played a song, and people went crazy," he says. "That was the first real affirmation that I'd ever really gotten." 
Soon after, Dave Barnes, an accomplished independent artist who had built a successful touring business, invited Blackledge to join him on the road. "I had no earthly idea what I was getting into," Blackledge says now. 
Success came quickly. "I did 100 shows in 2006," Blackledge says. "Most of it was driving around the country in my Pathfinder with a keyboard and a guitar and a bag. It was grassroots." 
Blackledge wrote or co-wrote every song on his debut album, which was produced by Jeff Coplan (The Moffats, Love And Theft). "It's always been and always will be my goal to write the best music that I can possibly write," Blackledge says in terms that would make James Taylor proud. 
His music fits the mold of intelligently crafted pop songs along the lines of Taylor and Guster, but he breaks out of the box with his driving melodies, charismatic vocals, and refreshingly jazz-influenced tunes. 
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anthony Hamilton, Ben Folds and Stevie Wonder are among Blackledge's diverse influences. Hip-hop, R&B and blues also season the music of the man that grew up under the influence of the Mississippi Delta.