Complete Moon Child Album Buy The Full Album This zipped, downloadable file includes all eleven songs in MP3 format, plus a specially produced cd cover, lyrics and liner notes in PDF (Adobe Reader)format. (Vista users: when you download the album, choose SAVE (not open) and just save the file to your desktop)
In the late 60s I saw a movie called Black Orpheus about the Rio de Janeiro carnival and in the movie a young boy playing his guitar calls the sun up from a mountain. So I thought who calls the moon up to start the night? My job…
A Jimmie Dale Gilmore song that I was always going to record, In fact Jimmie Dale Gilmore came to my house and taught me the lyrics so many years ago that I couldn’t even remember them anymore. Luckily Christine Albert was sitting in the studio with her computer and found the lyrics online – so I winged it.
While we were at the studio Chris Wall came to see how it was going. He listened to one of the tracks and said, sounds great. As he started to leave I said, “What about that song about the poet?” He had a cd in the car but I said, “Why don’t you come play it for us?” So he played it TO us, so he may be hidden somewhere in the track. He wasn’t mic’ed, but his spirit’s there.
Charlie John Quarto lyric, Shake Russell melody, Charlie John lived with us for a couple years back in the 70’s out in Oak Hill. I’ve known him since the Greenwich Village scene. His poems were on A Man Must Carry On. I knew about the song. Periodically I get a Charlie John vibe. This might have come by Bill and Bonnie Hearn.
When I knew Robert and Jessie were getting married I felt like having a personal sentiment to toast them on their way. It made it easier to write knowing they were both truly in love.
The first line – somebody really did ask me that question in the first line. I’ve been asked that a ton of times, so I thought I’d address it with a little singing observation.
Every musician that’s been to the Caribbean always comments how wonderful the full moons are. If you’re lucky enough to be there you now have a song to hum while you’re there. And Dennis Wolfe will play it for you – once I teach him the chords.
Finally Jennifer can stop retyping the lyrics for this song. It’s now in concrete. Sometimes the simplest songs, to be stated best, have to the hardest ones to work on. Leonard Cohen says before the last version, there’s an awful lot of bad re-writes You have to go through all those steps to get there.
