I Went...SI--SI--SIRIUS...All The Way Home (again) #47
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(a short jaunt)
"How Are You" - Kinks / "Think Visual" (1986)
"How is your life? How is it going?
Are you still dreaming and making big plans?
How are the nights? Are they still lonely?
Are you still struggling the way that I am?
Oh, how are you?"
From The Kinks 22nd album. Really?! And it's one of those songs that fell through the cracks and went mostly unnoticed. As did the album. But what a damn good song. Rainy and grey and...hopeful. Wear it on the days when the melancholy pulls on your sweater. Screw the video. Let your head play its own story.
"Only A Fool Would Say That" - Steely Dan / "Can't Buy A Thrill" (1972)
"I heard it was you
talkin' 'bout a world
where all is free.
It just couldn't be.
And only a fool would say that."
Steely Dan's debut was a fantastic album with a fantastic closing track with a bonus fantastic album cover. I put Becker and Fagen right up there with Keith and Mick. Paul and John. Captain and Tennille. All the great music duos. Only somehow, Steely Dan albums seem to have a more...timeless vibe. The coolness seldom feels nostalgic. I read somewhere this song was inspired by Lennon's "Imagine" that came out a year earlier. If so, then the cynicism is a wee tongue-in-cheek because someone can be heard in Spanish laughing and telling Fagen "Ha, ha, only a fool said this." FWIW: The album landed #238 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time."
"Night Ride Across the Caucasus" - Loreena McKennitt / "The Book of Secrets" (1997)
"Find the answers, ask the questions.
Find the roots of an ancient tree.
Take me dancing, take me singing.
I'll ride on till the moon meets the sea.
Ride on through the night, ride on"
One night, I was driving back home from a standup gig I had at some bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was pitch black...in the middle of nowhere. No traffic. Not even delivery trucks. No far-off lights. And I was listening to "Open Line - Coast To Coast." A caller was explaining to George Noory his experience with "night scares" and not being able to move. It must have been about 3:00 in the morning. All of a sudden...my radio went silent. No static. No nothing. I tried pressing other channel buttons...nothing. Just dead silence. And I drove like this for maybe 5 or 6 minutes. During this stretch of silence and darkness, I passed one of those tall wooden school crossing police figures with a white-gloved hand holding a "Slow For Children" sign. It was just leaning against a tree. Spooky as hell. And while I was trying to catch another glimpse of the strange figure in my rearview mirror...to check if I really saw what I really saw...the radio came back on. LOUD! (I must've turned the volume up trying to find another station.) The same guy was still talking about his "night scares." Anyway, Loreena McKennitt caused me to have a late-night flashback.
"Elvis, do you really want me to slap you?" ~ Joan Staley ~ So my friends and I were talking about first crushes. First tv and movie crushes. For me, it was easy. It was Alma. (Joan Staley) I broke into the double-digit age of 10 in 1993. That was the summer I discovered my favorite Don Knotts movie while flipping thru cable one Saturday morning... "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken." Everyone has seen it. It was a funny haunted house story similar to an episode on Andy G. with a cast of familiar characters, trippy organ music, and the prettiest girl I had ever seen...Alma. She was beautiful alright. I was love-stung so bad, I swear I could smell flowers coming out of the TV set. And best of all, she was nice. She didn't like the smart alec, the wise guy, or the show-off. Alma was digging Luther (Don Knotts) and that just made her that much prettier. And from then on... But unfortunately, time and puberty wouldn't let her wait
"...Not only learned to think, but to care. Not only learned to think, but to dare." ~ The Association ~ With one of the most bad-ass songs about the herb that no one was quite sure about, yet everyone understood...to the anti-war homage that was both beautiful and pointed... The Association . From gentle psych pop spinneries that tease the mind...to the lush vocal and instrumental arrangements that melt the heart... The Association. The Association were all of these and none of these. Lead by co-founder Terry Kirkman, it was never an "either/or" about the music. No pigeonhole here. It was simply "all" about the music. And having at least 3 of the most radio-played songs in history...I'd say The Association were on to something. TERRY KIRKMAN INTERVIEW 01/26/2015 Casey Chambers: In the summer of '67, The Association had the opportunity to perform at the iconic Monterey Pop Festival. How cool was that? Terry Kirkma
"I just always have played music. For better or worse, I banked my whole life on it." ~ Henry Lee Summer ~ It's strange how music lets you travel through time as if there truly was no time. I played the shit out of this album growing up. Nothing deep or complicated. Nothing outta bounds. Nothing to get hung about. It's deceptively simple. But here's the thing... Henry Lee Summer is serving aces all over this heartland square. This is the 35th anniversary of Henry Lee Summer's self-titled album and this one falls under that sweet spot between raucous and chill. It's a large cup of iced coffee with a nice soulful blend. Not usually my type of go-to and yet this album easily fills a void I didn't know I had. Let this spin be your own private Idaho. " Check it out, Leroy!" Henry Lee Summer... Go get you some. Henry Lee Summer Interview -- August 2023 Henry Lee Summer Casey Chambers: Well, this is the 35th anniversary of you
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