If you’re like me, you’re going to need some mental breaks to stay sane this year. In my case, I’m starting my day with some great songs in alphabetical order of the song title (note: this doesn’t mean one song per letter). In the comments, guess what’s next, let me know what worthy song I missed, or tell me why this was a terrible choice. Enjoy!
I’ll say it up front (LOL): As I’ve said before in this series, and will no doubt say it again, the choices have absolutely nothing to do with the politics of the artists or my personal feelings about them.
“Eric wrote the middle section, the title and some of the lyrics, Duane wrote the intro and Jim Gordon wrote the piano parts with his then-girlfriend Rita Coolidge. Oddly enough, the album didn’t sell well initially and the song didn’t become a hit until a year and a half after the band broke up.
A college radio station picked up an extended version of the album, with the piano coda, and played it over and over again. Duane had died, and everyone else was on drugs and doing other things, and suddenly the song was like another national anthem.
Nobody knew who Derek and the Dominos were then. The song just took on wings of its own and took off on its own.” — Bobby Whitlock
Yesterday: Priestess, lie down
