Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
Midnight legend, look at you / In bed when the sun comes out / A concrete runway just for you, yeah
Rocking slow your hips to the beat / Blasé boys ’round generating heat / Has time come? Are we merely obsolete? / Trace from a rig hid behind your knee
Won’t you tell me all about your story / And about the day that you didn’t have to fight? / I’m just here to listen, sound board for your visions / All you need to say you say with your eyes / Those eyes
Midnight legend, look at you / In bed when the sun comes out / A concrete runway just for you, yeah
This week I spent some time digging through crates of records for a disc to keep me calm. I came across J.J. Cale’s classic Naturally. I’ve always loved his elusive reputation and it dawned on me that it’s lead track “Call Me The Breeze” is on a playlist I put together during covid to cruise my bike around the neighborhood to. Ol’ J.J. has a real vibe and calming voice. I mean “Call the Doctor” and “River Runs Deep”? Fuck.
And then there is “After Midnight,” this week’s Idelic muse. I’m always telling young songwriters, it’s those simple song concepts that transcend. These days I’m off to bed and often asleep, but as a young nightclub owner there was a decade or two I was roaming the streets until the wee hours or the morn.
What a life. Gonna keep enjoying the Santa Ana winds blowing through our canyon.
Idelic Single of the Week: Paper Idol – The Morning
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