Memory Lane '75 and Songs That Make You Warm

Hanging out here at the ranch.. 8 inches of snow.. 8 degrees and thinking of summer.. Specifically the "Summer of '75"...
The Summer of '75 was a great year for music. It was a great year for me. My Junior year in high school.. I had a cool '66 El Camino, a farmer's tan, a job hauling hay making cash $ and my 8 track tape player. What an invention THAT was! Listening to your favorite song fade out... then the big KER PLUNK of the track change.. then your favorite song fading back in.. WOW.. what a great way to listen to art!
ART is what it was too.. Lot's of ARTISTS that were making music that had "feel" and "rhythm"
Folky bands like "America", Eagles and artists like "Sammy Johns" painted a vivid picture of the California coast, the desert sands, and highways stretching across the vast American plain. Enough so.. that a buddy of mine and I decided that we were going to drive to California.. turn around.. and come back.. just to say we did.. Now that never did happen because my El Camino only got about 8 miles per gallon and we couldn't afford the fuel...... but the planning and day dreaming was surely better than the trip would have been anyway.

The "Boss" jumped on to the scene with Born to Run. FM radio was just starting to "gel" and you could hear an hour of commercial free "un-commercial" rock and roll that the AM stations wouldn't dream of playing. B sides, album cuts and lost treasures filled the night sky on crystal clear FM.. WOW NO STATIC AT ALL... DJ's that talked slow and deep.. rattling the small speaker in my clock radio.. oh man.. what a gig I thought.. staying up all night.. playing music and talking to folks in far away places.. oh the romance...
Mix in some Willie and Waylon, Tompall and the Glaser Brothers, Jessi Colter and Conway Twitty from the Country Genre.. and you've got you a cool soup of rockin' relics that will shape your life forever.

So 35 1/2 years after the Summer of '75...as I sip on a Buttered Rum Yum Yum.. I'll just leave you with a list of songs to take you there..I know some of these were released before '75.. but I like "re-currents" too... I won't leave the links.. because I'm sure  you know how to go to Youtube and look them up.. "Keep On Truckin'" Y'all..
Cloudwatcher... signing off...

Chevy Van-Sammy Johns
Ventura Highway- America
Sister Golden Hair- America
Desperado-Eagles
Peaceful Easy Feelin'-Eagles
Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain-Willie Nelson
I'm Not Lisa-Jessie Colter
Here Come Those Tears Again-Jackson Browne
Over My Head-Fleetwood Mac
Reelin' In The Years-Steely Dan
Black Water- Doobie Brothers

 I'm feeling warmer already.. and I can hear you singing from here!