As I sit killing time before heading to Eva’s show in Danville, I’m listening to a CD I made it bit over 6 years ago.
I had gotten divorced about 8 months earlier and several people from way back in my life reemerged, for a while anyway. I was trying to capture some hope, elusive though it was. On 26-28 January 2000 I recorded:
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1 With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker
2 Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne
3 When It Comes To You - Dire Straits
4 Day After Day - Alan Parson Project
5 Wasted Time - Eagles
6 The American In Me - Steve Forbert
7 2001 - Melissa Etheridge
8 Days That Used To Be - Neil Young
9 Love Is A Long Road - Tom Petty
10 Epitaph including March For No Reason and Tomorrow And Tommorow - King Crimson
11 What It’s Like - Everlast
12 I Wanna Be Loved - Elvis Costello
13 Still Alive & Well - Johnny Winter
14 All The Best - John Prine
15 Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
16 Effervescing Elephant - Syd Barrett
Meant to be played as loud as you can stand!
Back Notes above. Inside notes below.
“What would you do if I sang you a tune? Would you stand up & walk out on me? Lend me your ears & I’ll sing you a song. I will try not to sing out of key.” This CD represents my song to you. It may be out of key because it’s not what it began as. I’m sorry if this is somewhat depressing. I intended to make this more upbeat to try & reflect my hopes & renewed spirit going into a new year. But something else seemed to come out of me, although I know not exactly what or why. It does, though, accurately reflect a large portion of what I’ve been listening to since early Dec. Anyway, a couple important people from way back in my life reappeared very late last year. I began listening to a lot of stuff that I was listening to in the 70’s. I acquired both Barrett CDs, a Janis boxed set, copied a lot of early Pink Floyd, King Crimson & who all knows. It was really kind of strange because there was this whole cascade effect of people, music, feelings… Welcome back Trace! I’ve missed you for a very long time. Many people have commented positively on Cake’s I Will Survive from the 1st CD. You’re welcome, but thanks really belong to Steve for turning me on to it. You should check out the rest of the album, quirky but great! I was wondering why I liked Cake’s quirkiness so much until I began listening to Barrett again. You should hear his eccentric little love ditties.
29 Jan 00 MRL
Sorry. That’s all for now. Interesting set this. It holds up reasonably well.