NoF'sVille
There might be some re-tracing of previous musical steps here, but what the heckfire.
After all, I'm an old guy who likes to revisit things.
Some might say obsessively.
Anyway...
There might be some re-tracing of previous musical steps here, but what the heckfire.
After all, I'm an old guy who likes to revisit things.
Some might say obsessively.
Anyway...
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This one starts off with a rock hard little chunk of melancholy written by the duct tape cowboy himself, Blaze Foley, although the tune was actually made famous by Merle Haggard.
Lucinda Williams, who knew Foley, and who's real name was David Michael Fuller, memorialized him in tune number two.
More melancholy in tune number three which was written, apparently on the spot just before its recording, by original Replacements front man, Paul Westerberg. In it Westerberg looks back and wonders if he and/or any of what he has done in his life is actually worth, well, you know - a damn.
Tune four was written by a then still young guy who, I would guess, never (least not until he recorded the album that this tune was on) ever second guessed himself. What is Astral Weeks actually about? Hell if I know. I do know that once you've fiddled with it a few times and gotten to know it a little, it can put you into a trance state pretty much every time you play it. As for the non-vannish intro stuck onto my warmly version - that was swiped, kinda/sorta from Martha Wainwright.
Selah.
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Image at the top of the post...Late stage, post-Bob Replacements playing the Stooges, sans Iggy.
My favourite musical podcast guy, Andrew Hickey, talks all about the making of Astral Weeks, and much more....Here.
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