Great example of how songs are crafted. Henley and Frey had most of it, but key part ("I'm going back in time...go on dreaming")was written by J.D.Souther.
Tribute to the great Richard Manuel about whom Eric Clapton said: "For me he was the true light of The Band. There was something of the holy madman about Richard. He was raw. When he sang in that high falsetto the hair on my neck would stand on end. Not many people can do that."
Tribute to Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., a founding father of America as important as any of the Dead Presidents. Tried to make the pictures tell a story. Stevie wrote this to add his voice to the call for making King's birthday a national holiday.
Written in 1945, recorded by Nat King Cole, Bill Evans, Tony Bennett, and Chet Atkins, and many others. Elvis heard Top 10 1962 version by Ketty Lester, who was from Clinton's home of Hope, Arkansas.
From their 1970 debut album, this sounds like Temptations on acid. Sampled on Beastie Boys "Car Thief" off of "Paul's Boutique". The longer version of this song is better, wish I didn't just have it on vinyl.
Classic nugget from 1967 has been covered by Dusty Springfield, REM, Andy Williams, King Curtis, Martha Reeves, and Percy Sledge. Has pictures of many bewitchingly beautiful "spooky girls" with two photos of the lovely Maggie Q. bookending.
Snock, Kornbread, Jocko, all aliases of this sly musical expeditionary. Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Charlie Poole, Hank Williams, Spike Jones, Slim Harpo, Groucho Marx, Captain Beefheart, there's a bit of all of these and a thousand other voices and styles. From his great 1971 LP "Armchair Boogie".
Madly romantic youth. "Overdosed on Keats" indeed. Admired by Elvis Costello, Roddy Frame wrote this and all the songs on their wonderful album "High Land, Hard Rain" when he was 18! Apologies for truncated ending, it was an incomplete download.
Young and idealistic, this sounds to me like Joni coming out of herself and beginning to enjoy the freedom, and all the new sensations her amazing talent was bringing her. From her debut album, 1968, the year I was born.
Proto-punk, camp, glam, musical archaeology, heavy metal. The Dolls melded David Johansen's love of Blues/Jazz with Johnnny Thunders' buzzsaw guitar. Yes, this was covered by Axl Rose. Riffraff human beings!
