Poverty with Dignity is Better than Wealth Based on Shame

Hello, my friends.

I was traveling in my car with my Sirius Radio on (as always....I don't go anywhere without my music) and this tune came on a couple times within a couple days.  I took that as a cosmic sign that this was to be my next selection for you.  :-)   Besides this is ANOTHER great tune that I associate great times and great memories.

So, where were YOU in 1974?

This song is by The Doobie Brothers and was recorded in 1974.  Michael McDonald didn't join the group until 1976 so it's not him that you hear singing the lead vocals.  Who knew?   All this time, I thought it was him.  AND here's another factoid, the title of this song is actually a small town in Texas, population 1,719.

S0, do you know what today's song is?  If you guessed "China Grove', you are correct.

Crank it up so 'You can hear the music at night'.  :-)

(Check out the groovy hair on the guys.  Love it!)

     


Enjoy.

Namaste.

Kimmie 

CHERISH YESTERDAY, DREAM TOMORROW, AND LIVE TODAY

Good day, my friends.

I have found ANOTHER (there seems to be an endless supply) fantastic song that is sure to take you back to some great memories, great times, in your life. 

This is a song that was written and performed by Jackson Browne in 1977.

It was written while he was driving to the studio each day to make The Pretender, according to Rolling Stone magazine: "I was always driving around with no gas in the car," Browne is quoted. "I just never bothered to fill up the tank because — how far was it anyway? Just a few blocks."

The song may be meant to describe the rigors of a musician's day-to-day life on the road, and its effect on his life as a whole, in connection with the themes of much of the album, but the lyric is more generally applicable, as well:

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels —

Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

In '65 I was seventeen and running up 101

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on ...

The lyric's ages and years match up with Browne's:

In '69 I was twenty-one and I called the road my own

I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on.

Rolling Stone writer Paul Nelson saw "Running on Empty" as embodying a "tenacious, win/lose duality" and being "what daydreamers have nightmares about":

You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find ...

Running into the sun, but I'm running behind.

I'm sure you figured it out.  Today's offering is 'Running on Empty' by none other than Jackson Browne, one of my all time favorite artists.  Now, this video has the lyrics included so......you know what to do.   Enjoy!

                  

Until next time, live in peace.

Kimmie 

I Want to be a Sunflower; So Even on the Darkest Days, I will Stand Tall and Find the Sunlight

Namaste, friends.

I'm bringing you today a song that takes me wayyyy back (well, maybe not so wayy back) but back to high school.  Lots of good memories, lots of great music.  I don't know about you but I just can't get into today's music.  I suppose it has a lot to do with the music with which we associate great times of our life. I remember my mother-in-law one time saying that her favorite music was 'big band music'.  I was like, 'Whhaaat?'  But now I get it.  That was time in her life that she has great memories from.

So, today, I'm bringing you 'Doctor, My Eyes' by Jackson Browne.  It was written and performed by Jackson Browne in 1972, on his debut album Jackson Browne.  The song made it to number 8 on Top 100 Billboard for 1972 and became a concert mainstay for Browne.

Here's an interesting fact:  David Crosby and Graham Nash sang backup vocals.  Not too bad, huh?

Glenn Frey (of The Eagles fame) would tell the story of listening to Jackson working on the song for months at a time in his apartment.  You see, Frey had an apartment next door and could hear him through the walls at work every single morning for..months.  I find it intriguing how so many young artists paths crossed as they found their way to stardom.

Browne was holding a concert relatively close to where I live and I had heard he was introducing some 'new' music he had written.  Maybe I'm stuck in a rut, but I want to hear classic Jackson Browne! 

Hope you enjoy 'Doctor My Eyes' by Jackson Browne.

   

                                

Peace and all good things.

Kimmie