Music Monday: "Please Come to Boston," Joan Baez
Monday, February 04, 2013
Anyway, instead of popping the Joan Baez record onto our electronic record player (I don't want to ruin anything), I set my Pandora to "Joan Baez" and let 'er rip. It was the first time possibly EVER that I didn't find myself correcting the station to suit my taste. I guess the Joan Baez station IS my taste.
Here's one of the songs that played on that station, originally written by Dave Loggins. Joan Baez spent some of her formative years in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she also "came up" as an artist. I feel this is an "American" song through and through, a song that seamlessly weaves the flavor and character of the United States and its distinctive cities into its lyrics. Impressive even when it's as simply done as it is here, I think.
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