alaskaMy first year in college there was a duo who played a local hotel lounge that introduced me to MMM. Though everyone mostly only knows his song "Wildfire", his album "Peaks Valleys Honky Tonks and Alleys" is one of my favorites. It can't be found anywhere, not even on his own website!
Odd how back then I identified with songs of travelers and one of his tunes became a fast favorite, "Once A Drifter".
But another made me think of a childhood friend I had a crush on, she was headed to Texas to train with the US Air Force and the song "Texas Morning" is about a guy who goes there to search for a girl he knows asking about her at a roadhouse in the early hours of the morning. The final strains of the song though are simply a great example of his lyrical art, the idea of driving in search of something/someone being compared to being a paper cup blown by the wind. (can you see it? skittering in a half circle one way, then back in the other direction?) A lonely song yes, but I love this last minute or so - here against the Alaska afternoon south of Denali National Park :
