The Band - King Harvest (Has Surely Come)

 

In considering posting "King Harvest" (the alternate version) for this day, I thought, "Can I really post that video again?" I thought I had reposted it a million times, I felt I had. But a cursory search shows I've somehow never posted it. I don't get it.

It surely deserved to be posted every Fall.

What sets the alternate version apart is the guitar solo. The high note goes up to the line that separates music and noise and possibly crosses it. The puncturing ringing in the ears underscores the feeling of the song: pain, suffering, hopelessness. The playing is on the edge just as the man in the song is on the edge.

3 Songs for the Summer to Fall Transition

 I don't know what the weather is like where you are, and it's a fragile thing, but over here it's solidly in that hazy transition between Summer and Fall. Here are 3 songs that are comfortable at this time. Gotta stock up on apple cider.

Fazerdaze - Little Uneasy

Haerts - All the Days

 

Radiohead - Gagging Order

 

Late Show - Dave Rakes Leaves

 

It's a classic... it's a semi-classic.

Moonlight Serenade

I have a very strong sense of "Fall Music" when Fall rolls around. The appearance of Autumn usually means it's time to listen to The Band's Brown Album on loop for days.

But for some reason I want to revisit Summer instead, specifically Moonlight Serenade.

One thing people may not know about Moonlight Serenade is that it has lyrics. Glenn Miller wrote it as an instrumental (of course) but yet it has lyrics. And as far as I know, that's a common thing among Glenn Miller songs (and for all I know, it could be true of most songs of that era). That's always been a mystery to me, why go to the bother of adding lyrics to an instrumental? But recently I found the answer.

Moonlight Serenade has lyrics for Ella Fitzgerald.