Jackson Browne - C or D?

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Now that you mention it, I just checked, and here's a fairly mind-blogging list of Woody projects to date, in various media, with descriptions---I knew some of them, like the Klezmatics albums, with all songs completed by Woody, I think (got interested in Jewish life via Marjory and her fam)---also, the tribute concert issued in '72 is mentioned here, and I have that LP, with scorching set by Dylan & The Band etc---also have all three volumes of Mermaid Avenue, and some others--but maaan: https://www.woodyguthrie.org/norapress.htm

dow, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

I hope they have lawyers...

in love

blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

Something about this Jackson Browne song sounds like something from "Graceland" at half-speed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er1SCSOaTb4

Some weird comments on that video. Like the first one:

Time can't touch this tune,. Good memories cruising with friends, jamming, drag racing,. Anything was possible in the night, we were lucky to had them. I'm 52 now. But it's fresh as yesterday.

Which means the guy was, what, 15? In 1983 or so? The comment is written like some grandpa extolling the '60s, not the early '80s. This is an OK song, but not the sort of thing that would (or should) make a teen want to tear things up.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 May 2023 20:27 (eleven months ago) link

I like this track, but I can honestly say it's never made me thinking about driving, much less drag racing. It sounds like something out of comedy, where a guy revs up his car, cranks up this tape and the other passengers are like WTF.

birdistheword, Sunday, 7 May 2023 21:38 (eleven months ago) link

Like, "Breaking the Law"? Sure. "Tender is the Night"? Nope.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 May 2023 21:46 (eleven months ago) link

I love that song so much. It made me want to grow up so that I could meaningfully stroke my chin and think baout things, such as being in a sadly doomed romance. Drag racing was not on the agenda. It felt more personal and intimate than its close companion, "Lawyers in Love," which was mixed up with all sorts of Reagan-era apocalypolitical stuff. Whoever made that comment is either deluded or just plan weird.

coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:37 (eleven months ago) link

Josh --

That YouTube comment is fairly typical.

the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:44 (eleven months ago) link

It's just the cultural version of false memory syndrome, where everything in the past blurs into a fuzz of vague meta-nostalgia.

"Yes, I was born in 1975. Whenever I listen to Billy Joel's 'Keeping the Faith' or Paul Simon's 'Late in the Evening,' I am reminded of how much we enjoyed Sen-Sen mints and the many street-corner doo-wop groups in my neighborhood, and how the cars all had big fins on them. Then we'd go down to the diner, to see if the Fonz was there. Man, that Cuban Missile Crisis sure was something, wasn't it?"

coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:52 (eleven months ago) link

still not sure who started the fire tho

coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:53 (eleven months ago) link

After all, it was you and me.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 May 2023 23:06 (eleven months ago) link

lol

I am reliably informed that you can't start a fire without a spark

coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 May 2023 23:25 (eleven months ago) link

he's very likeable in the eagles doc

taught glenn frey how to write songs (indirectly, frey was living in the apartment above browne, would wake up to the sound of browne's piano through the floor, listening to browne playing the same verse over and over, 20 times, until he had it down)

corrs unplugged, Monday, 8 May 2023 07:39 (eleven months ago) link

three months pass...

will i ever be able to hear "fountain of sorrow" without bursting into tears

ivy., Wednesday, 30 August 2023 15:25 (seven months ago) link

you've had to hide sometimes, but now you're all right

ivy., Wednesday, 30 August 2023 15:25 (seven months ago) link

thats a great song. lady of the well is the jb track that currently gets me.

nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:03 (seven months ago) link

you've had to hide sometimes, but now you're all right

gets me absolutely every time

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:37 (seven months ago) link

It's a good song.

I can still be undone by "Rock Me on the Water," or even "Tender is the Night."

Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 31 August 2023 02:40 (seven months ago) link


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