My dear friend Charlie Colborne posted a lovely and weird Bee Gees song from the Mister Natural record earlier and, because I have great taste too, I hit the like button on the damn thing. Didnt know it was gonna come with an assignment, but, alas, I have been tagged to share a song starting with the letter B. This version of Bablylon Sisters from Steely Dan features the fabulous drummer Bernard Purdie, and his famous and definitively groovy Purdie Shuffle. You may be among the many who reasonably hate this band but they were formative to me in a way that may have affected my DNA. Imagine me perch-jerkin at 12, barefoot on a rock by Dawt Mill on the North Fork of the White River in the Bryant Creek Watershed, with my Panasonic boom box, batteries maxed-out playing a wobbly cassette tape copy of Gaucho that i purchased from 7th heaven with money from answering phones and setting Father Carneys table at St. Elizabeths rectory, just about sunset, sunburnt, dreaming about being Pope and fabulous clothes and accessories, the spiritual access, blessing the adoring crowds with my soft right hand from the window of the appartamento pontificio, lazy summers at Castel Gandolfo, simple dinners with slightly nervous and adorably reverent seminarians in black cassocks, laughing with them secretly behind the backs of the Curiae, canonizing, defrocking... then just a sip of Avignonesi Occhio ... perhaps another
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:00:43 +0000