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December 07, 2008

Windshield Wipers Slapping Time

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Really, Janis?

Or were The Dead on to something when they adjusted it?

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to do.

Great song, regardless of who's singing and how.

But.

There is one line that worries me:

But I'd trade all my tomorrows
For one single yesterday
To be holding Bobby's body next to mine

That's a scary state of mind.

Janis Joplin originally published Me and Bobby McGee as track 7 on Pearl.  The Grateful Dead version posted here is track 7 on the second disc of a four CD live album recorded in New York City in April 1971.

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December 05, 2008

With Trouble on His Mind

Thought about The Grateful Dead and the song Looks Like Rain today.

Though about...

But I'll still sing you love songs
Written in the letters of your name

I looked it up to make sure I'd had it right, and I bumped into this.  Not a pretty website, sadly, but full of fun little theories.

I'd post the song, but neither I not any Hype Machine blogs have it.

So we'll go with the first Dead song I ever loved.

Jack-A-Roe is track 9 on Reckoning.

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