I am so late in posting this it’s ridiculous. Usually, I write this stuff up the night before, and it posts automatically. Unfortunately, I am so far behind at work, I’ve been working late into the evening almost every night. Not good for the old marriage, I can tell you that. But ever worse for this blog. Normally, I wake up feeling good about the coming day, but lately, I’m so far behind that I really just want to run and hid for awhile, and hope everything works out by itself.

Anyway, I posted some 60’s stuff a couple weeks back, and thought it might be fun to revisit that era…60’s and early 70’s. So I reached into the deep recesses of my mind and picked out a few songs that I really like, and that make me feel good just listening to. Especially Lake Shore Drive. If you’ve ever spent anytime in Chicago, then you know the song. It instantly brings back all the great memories of living in Chicago, the city I love perhaps more than any other in the world. I wasn’t born there, but I will always consider it home, and some of the best things in my life happened in that great city.

Another song on the list I always loved was The Pusher. Steppenwolf had bigger hits, but never better ones. From the opening riff to the last chord, it’s a song that really would have been very much at home in the 90’s alternative scene. I could imagine Alice In Chains covering this song and knocking it out of the park.

So, I’m off to work, on another busy day trying to get caught up. I hope it’s going a little better for you all! Enjoy!

1. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin’
2. The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
3. The Byrds - Eight Miles High
4. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
5. The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun
6. The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville
7. Steppenwolf - The Pusher
8. Del Shannon - Runaway
9. Mungo Jerry - Summertime
10. Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive