🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

Day 23: a song from the 10s

Continuing on my self-imposed theme of music stemming from The Band. Former The Band guitarist Robbie Robertson came back in 2011 with an outstanding solo album, How to Become Clairvoyant, stuffed with guest artists including Slowhand himself, Eric Clapton, and Steve Winwood. This song, "Fear of Falling," is about the doubts of entering a new relationship after being hurt in the past -- feeling the draw to another woman, but also the doubts.

"What does it mean to want so much
The way that I'm wanting you
Am I just setting myself up
To play the fool"

The song features all three artists in an elegant collaboration, simple yet fulfilling.

"Fear of Falling," Robbie Robertson (2011)

 
Day 23, a song from the ten’s

As a child one of my favorite books I ever read was to hell and back about the most decorated american soldier of world war II. To learn so many years later that an amazing metal band made a song that captures his story in song, well, my love for it is obvious.

 
Day 21 - A song from the 90s

Whoo hoo, now we're in my mother fucking range. This album, of course, came out at the beginning of my undergrad days, and man did we wear it the fuck out. Time and place, and all that.

 
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