Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Life in the Fifties”

Ihttps://open.spotify.com/track/4VCneRupMEMbaQGlU7CTnM?si=62bd945b60cf4c60 wrote this song with my friend and bandmate John Kargacos around 1978 in San Diego where we were playing in the band Streetlife. I can’t exactly remember who wrote what but we called it a 50-50 composition. John sang it. It was many years later, when the song was…

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Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Famous Blue Raincoat”

It came out in 1971, the year I graduated from high school, on Songs of Love and Hate. I was hooked. It manifests a perfect combination of mystery and unintended obfuscation that seems to contain some kind of self-sabotage at the core of one’s being. Cohen continued to play it his…

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