TakeATripWithMe
MagicSwirlingShipVille
One of my favourite musical DIY stories of all time is Sarah Harmer’s album ‘Songs For Clem’.
Which was a bunch of stuff she originally recorded just for her Dad.
I’ve been working on something similar for my Dad, too, this summer.
Which as been fun.
Both making the music and, perhaps even more so, mining some of the material from our collective past.
A past that includes a Woody Guthrie song called ‘1913 Massacre’.
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The thing is, though, I never learned Woody’s version when I was a kid.
Instead, because my Dad bought the Hobo record, I learned Arlo’s.
And it wasn’t until way later that I learned of Dylan’s straight-up rip-off/tribute to Arlo’s Dad.
So now I’m working on a fusion for my Dad that works Kerouac into the mix as well.
Because I figure that the early Dylan, who’s about the same age as my Dad, owes much, much more to Ti Jean than to Rimbaud.
OK?
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