Tag: oregon
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Watching the River Flow
“Watching the River Flow” was a song that Dylan wrote back in 1971. Leon Russell produced and played piano on the track, and it was released as a single, not as part of an album (although it ended up on “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II”). But to explain why I went with “Watching the…
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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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Pull Up The Roots
I decided to go with a song off the 1983 Talking Heads album, Speaking in Tongues for this week’s post. By the way, I haven’t used this meme in a while and it’s too good not to throw in again today: The trip has been amazing, but there have only been two spots so far…
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Totally Nude
Am I just going for click-bait here with this post title? Am I making any of you taste your lunch sneaking back up in the back of your throat with the thought of me disrobed? At a minimum, are you intrigued enough to keep reading? Well if the answer was yes to any of those…
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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? 