I liked Every Picture Tells a Story and Gasoline Alley, so when I saw this in a used record store I took a chance. I’m always interested in hearing Big Bill Broonzy songs, and I’d heard Had Me a Real Good Time on the radio and hoped it could be part of my philosophy of life. It isn’t bad advice: I was glad to be here, I’ll be sad to go, as long as I’m here I’ll have me a real good time. That will do for retirement. The problem with the album is that there’s nothing as good as Cut Across Shorty, much less Maggie May.
For years I was hoping to find a song about going to Jerusalem I‘d heard in the dorm in 1968. When I saw Jerusalem was on this album, I thought I had a chance. Not close, but I finally found it thanks to the Innerwebs. It was by Hello People, named (As, I Went Down to) Jerusalem. There’s a scratchy version on YouTube.
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