It was when she sent me back all my love-letters that I
realised that our conversations had been strictly one-way!
With the fabulous silky tenor-sax playing of Alexis Van
Eeckhout.
I was inspired to write this jazz piece by reading Don
Marquis's comment :
'Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal
down the Grand
Canyon and waiting for the echo'. Dreams are like bubbles,
blown over
cobblestones. With Albert Casas's inventive tenor sax.
Maybe it was because it was the day before Valentine's Day, but I heard Bette Midler's version of this on the radio as I was putting the album together, and was blown away by it. It seemed only natural to include it on an album which was themed on Love and the passage of Time.
A song to capture the magic of those moments when your lover holds you captive with her eyes. With Alexis Van Eekhout's silky sax and Michel 'Coco' Correch's rhythmic double-bass.
I often used to start my folk-club sets with this evocative, less well-known
Dylan song. The photo was taken by Richard M. Sintchak, of www.lightshadowandtone.com
I love the simple honesty of old farm-houses, built of local rough-hewn stone and felled tree-trunks. I chose to live in one, and I imagine that I will die here. With the haunting accordion playing of Gérard Lamolère.
Sandy Denny's immortal classic is the final song on the album, and is sung as a duet with the delightful Amy 'Sugarbee' Caldwell, whom I've never met. (We collaborated on the song via the 'net). One of the finest songs ever written about the fragility of Love in the face of Time.
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