Not a lot of comments here (age old issue that could have something to do with quality), just a few pals. I do enjoy the occasional spam comment (you don’t see ’em cuz they get stopped by WordPress). Have I posted this one yet, “Don’t wear seat belts lest you drown in you own urine?” Maybe that’s not spam, it could be comment on that quality…hahahaha (a lyric I once wrote, “fuck you and fuck me, hope we drown in fucking pee”). Today I got this one, “Black on black in the Charger I’m creepin’ Rub me the right way, you might get a genie B.o.B, black Houdini.” Is it sexual or is it too a comment on quality?
My old virtual pal, one time epic blogger and all around good guy, Nazz, sent me on this musical journey tonight, so if you have problem with it take it up with him. He knows I (secretly) respect the Grateful Dead and dig some of their music, so he sent this link to almost 4 hours of the Dead. For some reason, out of 41 songs, it did not include my favorite one, Morning Dew (there was a nice rendition of Me And Bobby McGee though). We had a brief interchange via fucking messenger, where he told me that the original Morning Dew was written and performed by Bonnie Dobson. This original version left me in awe, fucking 1962 baby, beatnik folk, by a Canadian, at it’s finest…fucking love it, maybe you will too…
Take me for a walk in the morning dew, my honey
Take me for a walk me in the morning dew, my love
You can’t go walking in the morning dew today
You can’t go walking in the morning dew today
But listen! I hear a man moaning, “Lord.”
I know I hear a man moaning, “Lord.”
You didn’t hear a man moan at all
You didn’t hear a man moan at all
But I know I hear my baby crying, “Mama!”
Yes, I know I hear my baby crying, Mama!”
You’ll never hear your baby cry again
You’ll never hear your baby cry again
Oh, where have all the people gone?
Won’t you tell me where have all the people gone?
Don’t you worry about the people anymore
Don’t you worry about the people anymore
Take me for a walk in the morning dew, my honey
Take me for a walk me in the morning dew, my love
You can’t go walking in the morning dew today
You can’t go walking in the morning dew today
You can’t go walking in the morning dew today
What I’ve done here is referenced a nice Wikipedia article about the tune and kinda went nuts with it (what’s new huh…redefining beating a dead horse. The Grateful Dead covered it on their self-titled debut album as (Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew (1967)…this is the version (I put up on fucking youtube a while back), the first I’d ever heard, thanx to Jason Bakutis of New Haven, Connecticut that made me take notice of the Dead, with the help of a tab or two of LSD (the full story of that adventure is HERE). This was recorded directly from Jason’s cassette of that 1969 Avalon Ballroom show…
So according to that article, this Tim Rose guy came along in 1967 records it and gives himself half the writing credits (I don’t pretend to know copyright law)
Anyway here’s a slew of nice covers listed in that Wikipedia article…
Nazareth
The Goldbriars – Come Walk Me Out
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Will You Walk With Me
The Human Beans
Lee Hazlewood
Jeff Beck – Morning Dew
Beck, Bogert, & Appice – Morning dew – Santa Monica May ’73
Allison Durbin
The 31st of February
Sugar Shack – Morning Dew
Lulu
Damnation of Adam Blessing
Krokodil
Hush
Clannad
Long John Baldry
Blackfoot
Einsturzende Neubauten
Devo
King Loser
Robert Plant
Skating Polly
The National
Bonnie Dobson & Robert Plant