#FortnightFridayMusic
April 21 2023
The word is Highway
#TheDoors: “Dawn’s Highway/New Born Awakening” from "An American Prayer"

In 1978 the surviving members of the Doors released An American Prayer, putting #JimMorrison's spoken recordings of his poetry to newly recorded backing tracks, splicing in portions of some well known Doors songs.

The spoken “Dawn’s Highway” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbkYLRJXqFU) recounting an event from Morrison’s childhood, segues into “New Born Awakening” which begins with a portion of "Peace Frog" from 1970's "Morrison Hotel," with its references to violence and Morrison's arrest, and this couplet referring back to the childhood incident:

“Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.”

The track then lifts and takes flight, as spirit released from such earthy realities, with Morrison's poetry on the wings of #RobbieKrieger's elegiac guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61sxabqObNc

#undiacomohoy nacía el #musico estadounidense #guitarrista y compositor en #TheDoors #RobbieKrieger #rock #usa #us #guitar #sg #lovemetwotimes #fyp #cdmx #rtr #efemeridesrock

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Doors: Mr. Mojo Risin' - The Story of L.A. Woman
Martin R. Smith (2012)

#TheDoors #JimMorrison #RayManzarek #RobbieKrieger #JimLadd
#MichaelMcClure #BenFongTorres #LAWoman