Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Doug Ashdown - Winter In America (1974)

The personal anguish expressed in this song drives the melody and the chorus is truly inspired. I heard this around a time when I was travelling and the images of the hotel room and waking up to strangers rang true. He was in America and I was in the Greek Islands and I was familiar with Doug Ashdown from my days attending the folk circuit in Sydney. The song is about searching and belonging and finding yourself, a time of growing up

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