There is a place called California where people still believe in world peace, essential Oneness, and love. I wouldn’t believe it either if I hadn’t recently lived there and met many a genuine hippie. The dream of the ‘60s lives on and beats in the hearts of the flower children’s children. Of these free spirits
Why do the blues endure? Generation after generation, those sad songs are recycled. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s (mostly) covers album My Dearest Darkest Neighbor answers that question. The blues endure because the human condition knows loneliness, morbidity, abandonment, heartbreak, and so on. The vulnerable songs covered on the album honor these phenomena. It does this by