This one changed my life
{048} This one changed my life, originally uploaded by The Inadvertent Gardener.
In 1998, in the basement of Border’s Books in downtown Washington, DC, I put on the headphones at a listening station and listened to the first notes of “Rock You Right,” the opening track to Susan Tedeschi’s release, “Just Won’t Burn.” In fewer than 10 measures, I had pulled the CD off the shelf to buy a copy, but I stood there a long time, listening to the music that had, with the opening vocals, changed my life. I’ve only seen her perform live once before—at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA—so when I saw she was coming to San Francisco, I had to buy tickets. My friend Jen and I spent much of the show sneaking our way closer and closer to the stage—it was incredible to watch from such a short distance away while this tiny woman with an unnaturally powerful voice and ridiculous blues guitar skills tore up the joint.
365 in 2009 
Cool! I’ll have to check that album out. :D
Al_Pal, it’s definitely worth checking out, as are her more recent albums. She does killer covers — her cover of “Angel from Montgomery” is my favorite of all time, and she does a cover on a later album of Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice” that blows me away. She’s an amazing artist…a total inspiration to me.