Friday Music Video: Ben Harper at Carnegie Hall

Wow, it has been a while! I swear I have some blog ideas ready to go, but I want to ease back into blogging with a feel-good Friday Music Video. Last week, I had one of those cool NYC opportunities - seeing Ben Harper live in Carnegie Hall. He rocked for about 2 hours, and it was awesome. I've been looking for good videos to share here, and most of the quality is pretty bad. But I had to share 2 my mom would love:

Ben Harper covering Jeff Buckley (covering Leonard Cohen). Includes a cool Ben / Jeff story:



Also for my mom, he covered the Boss' Atlantic City (the video quality is not so good on this one, and it skips his fun Boss story... but there is the awkward part where no one in Carnegie Hall knows if they can sing along to the "1,2,3,4!"

And this one actually has cool footage, and the song is fun - Suzie Blue:


Finally, Burn One Down... tough to choose an oldie/goodie, as he played so many, but this one will always remind me of how I somehow managed to use a line about laying off marijuana users in a Notre Dame letter to the editor (loooong time ago!) about tolerance. I mean, who doesn't love the line:

"My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causin' no harm it shouldn't bother you
Your choice is who you choose to be,
And if you're causin' no harm then you're all right with me."