THE WINE GUY

THE WINE GUY

Monday 12 January 2015

SONGS THAT HIT THE SPOT

http://youtu.be/0vrDIFYuc4Q


 Good old Neil.





Simple lyrics that niggle a nerve.



That's what clever writing does to elicit nostalgia (in about  a million words less than Marcel Proust used).



I thought about this song as I rode a train north from Toronto (Ontario) last year. We all have our favourites and to be honest Neil Young wasn't really one of mine but folk/rock/jazz/pop performers of one's generation carry the common cultural values that we grow up with in some form or other.



The song was evocative when I was young, meaningful when I was in that huge country last year and visceral when I listened to it tonight.