what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND?

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I have a very vivid happy memory of this song:

1990. I was driving with my 1987 Chevy Nova hatchback (like a Toyota Tercel) in the summertime. I had a tiny portable cassette player that I taped to the dashboard. My girlfriend at the time was riding in the passenger seat. We had the windows down and stopped at a stoplight in town. I played this song from this album and she'd never heard it before. At the next stoplight she leaned over and for no obvious reason, threw her arms around my neck and kissed me.

Skip to 3:22 if you want to hear a hauntingly beautiful singer. Sends chills. Natacha Atlas is her name.

A Woody Guthrie cover. I'm a sucker for slide guitar!

"If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again
To be born again"

"Ain't nuthin' but a stranger in this world. I'm nuthin' but a stranger in this world."

Still leaves me speechless. Lyrical masterpiece of imagery.

VAN

Not to be confused with "I'll Follow You into the Park", which is what my nephew once called it.

I wore this album out (literally) playing it in my bedroom on a portable record player enclosed in a beige hard plastic case with a hinged lid.

OMG YES
I used to go nuts for the jungle intro!! ! I still have it!! !

I've seen them live more than any other band.

(I just remembered I told you the vodka story lol oops)

* I can smell my old shampoo, and see the dust particles floating by my window in sunlight when I hear the album*

Time for a little harmonica....