The DolphinsFred Neil, the artist responsible for this splendid tune, is today, unfortunately, remembered , if at all, for writing "Everybody's Talkin' ," later used as the theme for the seminal late-sixties film, Midnight Cowboy. "Talkin' is a sturdy song, but there are untold delights to be found in his catalog, which is rich with his deep bass vocal stylings and hypnotically satisfying twelve-string work. |
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Known primarily as a folk artist (people do love to apply labels), Fred worked early on in the fabulously legendary Brill Building, where he penned songs snatched up by the likes of Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison (he wrote Orbison's "Candy Man"), and I've read stories about his exploits on the Greenwich Village scene during the sixties that would be delicious material for a biography I'd love to read.
Fred went on, in later years, to work in the rescue of dolphins and prevention of their exploitation, largely retiring from the world of performance and song-writing. Neil merged with the cosmos that birthed him in 2001.
This is the only song from these sessions on which I used an obvious electronic effect on the guitar, using a throbbing, pulsating tremelo to stand in for the rolling, oceanic sound of Fred's twelve-string.
There's a lot of heart in this tune. Thanks to my friend (and I don't use the term loosely) Steven Moore Scheffler for showing me how easy it was to play.
Fred went on, in later years, to work in the rescue of dolphins and prevention of their exploitation, largely retiring from the world of performance and song-writing. Neil merged with the cosmos that birthed him in 2001.
This is the only song from these sessions on which I used an obvious electronic effect on the guitar, using a throbbing, pulsating tremelo to stand in for the rolling, oceanic sound of Fred's twelve-string.
There's a lot of heart in this tune. Thanks to my friend (and I don't use the term loosely) Steven Moore Scheffler for showing me how easy it was to play.