Luyện nghe bài hát Simple Pleasures (narration)

Okay, this next is really, really buried treasure
in digging up all lost songs for you to hear
A couple of them buried so deep that
I couldn't remember writing them, much less playing them
Until Milton gave me some

Once I heard this story, it did my own buried treasure
locked away deep in that way back machine part of my brain
The thing about simple pleasures is
that it features Rick Hirsch on a lead acoustic solo
It also is a that got it's
inspiration more Fred Neil than Gordon Lightfoot

I'd been turned on to Fred by Bob Cooke who included several
of his in his sets in the Bayou Room days
which became a Roy Orbison hit, Other side of this life,
A bit of rain, The dolphins
Were all house standards that came from his classic album
and McDougall and from Bob's repertoire to mine

Then in the Summer of '69, the movie Cowboy came out
and featured Harry Nielson's version of Everbody's
became a radio hit
As a solo performer and in band I have played in since that time
Everybody's Talking has part of my go-to list
I met Fred in Coconut Grove in 1971 when I went down to play in
for the first time and was living
Jerry Jeff but a whole other story,

Fred was a great inspiration and a good friend
We fished and played together at the Flick in Coral Gables
and on dolphin project
benefits in Coconut Grove in the early
I stayed in touch him in my comings and goings from Key West
and God knows
Until he kinda out of sight just after the millenium
Sadly he passed away alone on Key
the list of Fred's proteges is long and loaded famous names
I'm simply to be one of the singers that spent time
in the shadow of his great

So this little Simple Pleasure, out to Fred Neil