Tag: nature
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Hands on the Wheel
“Hands on the Wheel” is the penultimate track (side note: I have an unreasonable love of the word ‘penultimate’) on the classic country concept album from 1975, “Red Headed Stranger”. It’s a beautiful song – kind of the tale of redemption that the Red Headed Stranger finds in his final years. This blog title was…
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Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
Well, I still haven’t used “On the Road Again”, but I did go with one of Willie’s signature songs this time and a staple from pretty much all his live shows. “Angel” was from Willie’s 1980 movie, Honeysuckle Rose. Why did I choose this song, you ask? Well, I guess I’d respond by asking you…
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Driving the Herd
“Driving the Herd” was one of the last tracks on the final album Willie Nelson did with Merle Haggard, back in 2015. The album is called “Django and Jimmie”, due to a title track that was an homage to Django Reinhardt and Jimmie Rodgers. I went with “Driving the Herd” because out here at… oh…
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If Dogs Run Free
On the album “New Morning”, Bob Dylan put out a song that is strange by even his standards – it’s called “If Dogs Run Free”, and it’s kind of some odd 50’s sounding jazz piano tune with a lady doing scat in the background. If you haven’t heard it, why not check it out here?…
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Edge of the Ocean
For this post’s title, I went with one of the songs from Bob Dylan and the Band’s sessions back in the 60’s. Bob Dylan has written more words than there are. Over the last 15 or 20 years, there’s been a whole side business of finding stuff that Dylan recorded that wasn’t officially released and…
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Hot Fun in the Summertime/Warmth of the Sun
Okay… I know I said I’d use Dylan song titles for the blogs during this stretch, but with the loss of two amazing and tragic musicians the other week, I decided to go with a Sly and the Family Stone/Beach Boys mash up title for the new blog post. If you haven’t seen it, I…
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‘Cross the Green Mountain
Hello all! I hope all is good in your neck of the woods! For this week’s title, I chose kind of an obscure Dylan track – this was found on the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 release, and it’s a song that Dylan wrote for a Civil War movie called ‘Gods and Generals’. I hope Tom…
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Here Comes My Girl
Well, to get the key question out of the way right here in the lede – where’s Nico? Still loving his time in Tonto National Forest! I thought I’d do a slightly different blog post this week. I’ll still catch you up on what we’ve been doing since we last spoke, but also, in the…
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Can’t Stop the Sun
“Can’t Stop the Sun” was the closing tune on one of Petty’s later albums, “The Last DJ”. Thought I’d go with this one, because this week, we put some new solar panels on top of our travelling caravan! This probably won’t be a big surprise, but as I mentioned in the last blog post, we’re…
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First Week/Last Week… Carefree
So this week’s title comes not from the Muppets, but from the Talking Heads’ debut album, “Talking Heads: 77”, which not surprisingly came out in 1977. In general, I think it’s a bad idea to put the year into the title or lyrics – it makes it feel dated. “Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s…
Where’s Nico? 