An imagined playlist that I might have been listening to on this day in 1974. Maybe a potential mix-tape made for a girl I met that summer. My 'reasons to believe.' I was a three or four year veteran of record collecting by then. The year of being eighteen years old. Graduating from high school. Old friends suddenly going off in different directions. My first summer job, first time being away from home and living with my aunt and uncle on the Oregon Coast ..... Going off to college .... Falling in love and having my heart broken. Quite a bit of sudden transition in a period of a few months for a unsuspecting and unprepared teenager. A crash course introduction to advanced life lessons!! Bittersweet days, now somewhat scary to reflect upon. I wouldn't accept money to do it all again. Music was needed to help a shy and geeky kid get through it all.
- Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile With Those Memphis Blues Again .... I loved how Dylan would write songs with what seemed like an infinite number of verses and words.
- Cat Stevens - Father and Son
- Jackson Browne - Rock Me On the Water .... I've always thought of this as a gospel song. Probably because of the imagery it sends out.
- Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
- James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon .... I played this almost every damn night that summer. It must have been saying something to me!!
- The Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling
- Poco - A Good Feeling to Know
- Pink Floyd - Us and Them
- Arlo Guthrie - Shackles and Chains .... About as 'Country' as I ever got.
- Carole King - Come Down Easy
- Country Joe McDonald - Drugstore Truck Drving Man .... From the Woodstock soundtrack. For some reason I've always associated it with Ronald Reagan. Maybe there's something in the introduction to the song?
- The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
- Gordon Lightfoot - Circle of Steel .... I've always felt this as a winter song. Chills and lonely. It just has that 'feel' to it in my mind.
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