I've felt for some time that the music I post on my personal tumblelog is often lost in the mix.
I like to share.
I spent 10 years in the music industry and I've been an avid consumer and collector of music from almost every genre and decade since I was a wee child.
What I post here may be familiar or foreign, old or new. Good music is just good music to me.
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One Woman Show
The First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
The most unlikely song ever recorded by Kenny Rogers, Just Dropped In was a Top 10 hit for The First Edition in 1968. Psychedelic, not only in sound, but it’s also quite obviously about the LSD experience. Not exactly The Gambler, you know.
According to Kenny, this was Jimi Hendrix’s favourite song, which possibly had a lot to do with the unusual mix of guitars for the time. Riffs in the intro are backwards and the solo played by Glen Campbell is heavy with reverb.
Interestingly, the track was first recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, who ended up rejecting it. I’d be interested to hear how that would have sounded.
Hendrix should have done a version. Shame about that.
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