Luyện nghe bài hát Simple Pleasures (narration)

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

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

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

Then in the Summer of '69, the movie Midnight Cowboy out
and Harry Nielson's version of Everbody's Talkin'
became a radio hit
As a solo performer and in every band I played in since that time
Everybody's Talking has been part of my list
I met Fred in Coconut in 1971 when I went down to play in Miami
for the time and was living with
Jerry but that's a whole other story,

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

So this little Pleasure, goes out to Fred Neil