The man in the song has just broken up with his girlfriend and is trying to get over her. He’s got some songs lined up to listen to on a particular day. The name in the title refers to Merle Haggard, an American country singer with the hit song “If We’re Not Back in Love b...
and all of a sudden pain ensued for all parties involved. There is the pain that comes from a broken heart and there is also a non-physical torment that can inhabit one’s soul.
The song's wistful lyrics find Moore pining to "ride around that old truck" with his grandfather, ask Hank Williams "why he took those pills back in '53" and introduce his kids to all the relatives they never got to meet. All of this would be possible in just one road trip, Moore ...
Gosh, he was great – sang every song you’d want to hear, and then some, including one I REALLY got into, which was the Beatles oldie ‘I Saw Her Standing There.’ The surprising thing is that he WASN’T flashy, he didn’t commercialize himself, and he played so amazingly long! W...
2) Ukiah, by Robert Francis: Terrific professional production, it sounds like a pop single back when they still recorded pop singles. Semi-intelligible lyrics but I did hear references to both Jonestown and insane asylums in the 1970s. It ends with “For now I’m in Ukiah on the run.”...
Broken Canine Shortly after sharing the post about Henry's Teefers last week, Henry started chewing a chewy stick and snapped off one of his canine teeth almost at the gum line. Ugh. I say one of his canine's but the truth is that it is his last of his 2 canine teeth. He did th...
God Bless America. And soon. (The San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 1963.) FOR THE UNION DEAD by Robert Lowell The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded. The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its scales. ...
take a more active role in regulating big business. They also realized that before meaningful changes could take place, the stranglehold over local and state government by corrupt politicians and the huge corporations had to be broken. The reformers of this time called themselves ‘Progressives.’...