https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR7H9PASFQM
― buzza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:20 (two years ago) link
I referred to this one in passing, on my Nashvlle Scene ballot re '08: (Clark's Silverado Live... is pretty decent West Coast country rock etc, pretty spare musically, tho couple of songs have some kind of purple rants in their baggy pants)(also a couple of co-writes with founding Flying Burrito/Eagle Bernie Leadon, from when the Eagles were better).2018 ballot let notebook scribbles stand: girlfriend fleeing a guy “knows next time he’ll do what he’s said he will”, “sometimes I see her face”: for series of sessions just now released as Gene Clark Sings For You, he hired good musos, but yeesh intensely broody verbose sub-D ritualistic “folk”/folk-rock. No a few might work in another context, one w out so much autodepresso drone of self-absorption and terrible lines (people lookin for a place called Somewhere, fake tributes to a strong woman when he’s really just into his own depression-rejection etc.) But “Yesterday Am I Right” with some lyric edits and maybe a few others toward the end incl. levels of proficiency going towaste and kinda making the bad stuff worse by carrying it along pushing in some cases
― dow, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
I find Clark's lyrics so vague and hard to parse that they wouldn't be the criterion I'd use to reject one of his songs. I thought Sings For You was exceptionally strong for a left-over set of demoes.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 19 June 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
I mean it was genuinely good, and EXCEPTIONALLY good for a bunch of leftovers.
lyrics of “strength of strings” are bizarre and awesome
― brimstead, Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
And allude to Dylan
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 1 July 2021 04:32 (two years ago) link