Howdy all,
Do you recall The Boy w/ the Moon and Star on His Head? Never really understood it from Cat's Perspective (that's a bi-monthly Readers Digest item - sorta like Bullwinkle's Corner), but loved to hear it and play it.
Two yrs ago, John Stewart recorded his own Star in the Black Sky Shining. Nothing alike musically, but mystically, yes. Not VooDoo. Just John's Perspective (tri-weekly on Matt Drudge's page.)
Both songs are mighty and lyrically dancing - and capture a similar look. I'll hunt the lyric down.
I figure the song matters first. The beliefs, lifestyle, etc. don't. Evil people have written heavenly songs. Maybe vica-versa.
If the message is clear in the lyric, and I'm uncomfortable w/ it, I don't sing it. If camoflaged (Stairway to Heaven?) I admire it as a piece of music, but would probably leave it be. Can't sing like Plant or ax like Page, anyway.
Patti - I stand right w/ you & the Lord. That's why, when I used to sing John Lennon's masterpiece Imagine, I'd leave the verse out about Heaven & Hell.
Sometimes even change a lyric here and there to suit me. Or even to make it more personal to me.
Did that w/ Moonshadow.
A long, ramblin' way of sayin' I never much cared whether Sinatra had Mob Ties (pass on that gag) or Brother Ray was a junkie. It was the music that soundly floored me.
Still haven't heard Indian Ocean. Do they play it on Prairie Home Companion (liberal pinkos!) That's a program I love, too.
I've been greatly saddened by meeting a musician/singer I admired deeply, only to find they are personal jerks. And thrilled when they are kind. Gord, above most.
Have you heard Phillips, Craig, and Dean's There's a Little Bit of Morning Outside.
Do.
The Rez
. . . Morning Has Broken - same-same
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