Here’s
a brand-new single for you, written and recorded in a couple of
evenings. It’s one of the more “timely” pieces of “commentary” at
which I’ve tried my hand. Maybe that’ll make it dated within a couple
of years; I hope not.
I
kept thinking of Springsteen’s “The River” after I wrote it. While
that song is darned near perfect and beautifully cinematic, its
melancholy and desperate mood is very inspiring. To watch dreams
languish into memory is indeed a sad scenario. Not quite given up all
hope but more doubt than faith, at the moment at least.
Although
neither fuzzy nor country, this is the first installment of what I hope
will be several tracks of “fuzzy country” -- basically, country and
folk songs arranged and recorded as if in a series of fuzzboxes. All immersed in a 20-foot wave.