A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
It's hard to write a love song that really captures pure emotion without sounding trite and cliched. But long-running psych-pop band The Green Pajamas made it sound easy on this jangly psychedelia-tinged pop tune from 1999's Seven Fathoms Down And Falling. It's sweet and beguiling and, yeah, it's more about voodoo and the allure of the forbidden than romantic love, but that chorus just pierces your heart. "I'm right here to meet her in a bittersweet fever because she's still bewitching me, after all these years."Mary Lou Lord does a lovely version as well:
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