The Mystery Song The Chevy van’s engine hummed as we as we sped along the 10 Freeway toward L.A. I was riding in the back with my butt on a Sunn amplifier, it being my turn. It had been well over two hours since we’d left the Big Bear cabin and my cramped legs
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‘Listen to ‘Door to Door Love I want to die. Dont want to carry on. Woman said she loved me. I turn around she’s gone. Tell me if she loved me why’d she leave me here alone Sellin’ my door to door love Sellin’ with my door to door smile Door to door love Will
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Listen to ‘It’s a Lazy Summer Day’ Wow, fifty years ago! Hard to believe. Looking back after all these years I can see how important this event – our recording ‘It’s a Lazy Summer Day’ – was in the trajectory of my life. This gentle tune with it’s flower child message was the first hint
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hunter’s moon rising breaking through horizon’s seal its luminescence partially blocked by slashing power lines and blunt fisted towers but destined to ascend full and free in the clear October sky like a big, voluptuous scoop of dreams Danny Faragher 10/19/16
Listen to ‘The Devil Wind Blues’ here. Santana Winds are howlin’ and the night is closing in. Santana Winds are howlin’ and the night is closing in. There is no escaping once these devil winds begin. Hear those sirens wailing? A smell of smoke is in the air. Hear those sirens wailing? A smell
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Listen to ‘Rainbow Pier’ from the ‘Dancing with the Moment’ album. Among the dream- like images that swirl and mingle in my mind is an early childhood memory of a moonlit drive with my family around Rainbow Pier in Long Beach, California, the city of my birth. I remember poking my head out the window of our ’43 Chevy
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Hard to believe, but it has been a half century since my brother Jimmy and I stepped into Moonglow, a small studio that stood at the corner of Selma and Cosmo in Hollywood, California, to record the P.F. Sloan penned ‘Lollipop Train’ and our own ‘Bored to Tears’ for Valiant Records. It was to be our
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The Devil and the Koch Brothers The Devil dined with the Brothers Koch. “Boys,” he said. “I like your style… “You pull those strings behind a cloak “And embrace the darkness with a smile.” The Brothers drank the wine and dreamed A dream of empires rich and vast. And with their dinner guest they schemed
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the dancer out of breath and behind the beat, pushing hard to make my way, like a dancer looking at his feet I often stumble through the day. so unlike that ‘parallel me’ who completes each task with style and verve, and coolly knocks it out of the park when life throws him a wicked
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