Catch the Wind

This was the apotheosis of the '60s.  Flowers in your hair, a beaded curtain, the smell of thoroughly illegal pot smoke mixed with patchouli incense, and gently playing in the background...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yQKDj_V4Gk

Here he is again, about 16 years later. His voice is technically better, yet somehow, not better. It had a ragged quality in the '60s that served him well. Losing that raggedness may have seemed the thing to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMknrmuDD0o

Oh, well. Crystal Gayle is marvelous, anyway.

This article was updated on May 9, 2023

David F