Music: Your flavor of the month?

Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

 

The Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon

 

I use to listen to this for hours when I was in the Army. I had a buddy who was locked up in the stockade. They put him through mental torture which he responded by a hunger strike. They then put him in the military hospital at Ft. Lewis. Well, they needed an armed guard while he was in the hospital and that's where I came in. He owned an Akai tape recorder with hours of the Moody Blues which we would sit and listen to all day for several days until they dragged him out of the hospital and dragged him, kicking and screaming all the way, onto an airplane headed for Vietnam which was the reason for him winding up in the stockade in the first place. He was a bit of a strange guy and I never saw nor heard from him again. To this day the Moody Blues take me back to those days.

 

It's amazing the memories a song will bring back. When I was a kid we lived in a house with a big glass window in the back door of the house. This CCR song reminds me of it every time I hear it.

 

Everything they do is great.

 

Love this early Jethro Tull from Stand Up "Reason for Waiting"...maybe my favorite Tull song

 

I saw them in concert back in the mid 60s.

 

That's why I own all of their albums. One of the best bands of all time!

 

Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown


Gordon Lightfoot - Early Morning Rain


Early morning rain was a song we used to listen to in "coffee shops" all over the country in the mid 60s.
"Coffee Shops: were places you'd go to to listen to people who would strum a guitar and sing folk songs at an open mike. Those of us who couldn't play the guitar would have to pay a cover charge. At these places they'd serve covvee and spiced hot cider for a price, of course. I'd usually borrow a buddy's spare guitar and get in free. Of course, I wouldn't try to play the thing because it was nothing more than a box with strings that I would listen to while others work their magic.

 

Bob Dylan once said he'd tried his whole life to write a song as good as "If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot...he's one of Canada's great treasures as a lyricist and a great, great acoustic guitarist...his songs are always full of difficult guitar voicings.

 

I also used to love The Guess Who, another Canadian group.
The Guess Who - Guns, Guns, Guns

 

Those colors mean something...

 

New Riders of the Purple Sage - Panama Red

 

The best Dixieland jazz song ever!
Dr. John and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - It's All Over Now

 

A YouTube recommendation. This is really nice.