umbertino Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 From masterpiece album " If I could only remember my name" 1971 For list of musicians / vocalists song by song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Could_Only_Remember_My_Name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 One of the most beautiful and meaningful songs I ever heard in 47 years of music-listening....Fantastic lyrics...JMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 Another gem imo....Great lyrics as well.....Can be applied worldwide........Unfortunately....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 (edited) As per youtube poster: "One of the most autobiographical songs to stem from the diaspora of CSN&Y, David Crosby's "Cowboy Movie" is the actual story of the (temporary) 1970 breakup of that very group. The individual members are all given aliases: Stephen Stills is Eli ("our fastest gunner/kinda mean & young, from the South"). Graham Nash is The Duke ("our dynamiter"), Neil Young is Young Billy, who has an almost psychic ability to predict trouble, and Crosby himself is Fat Albert, who becomes an interested and interesting bystander. The other main character is Raven, who represents Rita Coolidge, who in real life had affairs with Stills first, then Nash. This in itself caused the ill-feelings between Nash and Stills at the time, and caused the temporary fraction in the band. Raven is also referred to as "The Law" -- but not in the legal sense, as Crosby explained in Dave Zimmer's Crosby, Stills & Nash, but the "law of averages of nature." All of this combines, as Zimmer relates, to create a "colorful look at human nature," and succeeds admirably. Musically, this lengthy cut is similar in structure to CSN&Y songs such as "Down by the River" and "Deja Vú." The fabulous electric guitar exchange between Young and Jerry Garcia is riveting, as is the rhythm section, which is provided by members of the Grateful Dead. All in all, one of the standouts on Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name, and it is historical as much it still remains as a stone groove."--Matthew Greenwald Edited October 20, 2018 by umbertino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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umbertino Posted October 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 Correct title: "Song with No Words (Tree with No Leaves)" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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umbertino Posted October 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 Magnificent imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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