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Song Lyric Sunday

Good Morning! My two week vacation at the end of April turned into extended leave from blogging. I must admit I enjoyed the break. It may become a habit! We will see. Anyway I missed you guys at SLS and this week’s prompt was one I really wanted to do.

So here we are on Song Lyric Sunday and the challenge today is to find a song that includes the act of depending, leaning, relying or trusting another. It reminded me of a Jackson Browne song called the “The Load Out” which he wrote out of appreciation for his road crews when they were on tour. The artist relies heavily on others to get them all where they need to be, on time, set up and ready to rock ‘n’n roll. It’s a really nice song and I found this great video of JB and others doing to song during load out. If you’re a Jackson Browne fan you will enjoy this personal, intimate performance.

https://youtu.be/tNCuwUSPias?si=jwEK_f3lZHcl16Sm

The Song

Browne wrote this rambling piece as an affectionate tribute to the roadies, assistants and staff who help him take his show on the road, setting up and taking down his stage sets and moving his instruments (a process known as “the load-out”). He often played it at the end of each performance, usually with his cover of “Stay.”

The songs on the Running on Empty album were recorded live in various settings. “The Load-Out” was recorded at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland during a show on August 27, 1977. The song was something Browne had been working on with his band – Danny Kortchmar (guitar), Russ Kunkel (drums), David Lindley (various instruments), and Leland Sklar (bass). They didn’t have an arrangement they liked, but when Browne did three encores at the show, they found themselves out of material but still hankering to play. Kunkel suggested they play the song and see what happens. The resulting performance was so good that it made the album. This was just the second time the band played the song in concert.

Speaking with Rolling Stone, Browne described “The Load-Out” as “a love song to the audience and the crew.” When it transitions to “Stay,” that’s the band asking the audience to stick around because they want to keep playing.

Browne was very tight with his road crew, especially Donald “Buddha” Miller, who was both his crew chief and his manager. In a radio interview, he talked about what the roadies went through to earn his respect: “These guys work really hard, and in those days they made practically the minimum wage. They used to drive around, six guys in a camper. They’d be leaving the gig and you’d see them crawling into this little space, getting ready for an eight-hour drive to the next gig.”

Songfacts

The Lyrics

Writer/s: BRYAN GAROFALO, JACKSON BROWNE

Genius Lyrics

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This is your disco song,
That was made for you,
For those rainy days,
To chase the shadows away,
This is your disco song…

Vitalic - Your Disco Song
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xX6AZIxvcnQ

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Head and Feet Blues (SONG)

One of my favorites when Jeremiahs Run was still performing live.

Head & Feet Blues (Live) | Various Artists | The Belly Hymns Project https://kmls.bandcamp.com/track/head-feet-blues-live

Lyrics

This is a story about a man who split himself in two.
One part stayed the same the other just grew and grew.
One part stayed in one place, the other up and joined the ratrace.
He had his head in one place and his feet in another.

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

The part that never changed was always true,
it was always old and the growing part was always new.
While one part was dying from entropy the other part was dying from too much speed,
Head in one place feet in another.

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

I heard a story about a man who split himself in two.
One part stayed the same, the other just grew and grew.
I got to wondering when the story was through which part was me and which part was you.
Head in one place feet in another

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

Song written October 27, 1998