Continuing my new Sunday “tradition” of sharing folk songs, here’s “And When She’s Down,” a melancholic little number I wrote when I was about twenty-one or so.
As I explain in the video, it was subconsciously inspired by Paul Simon as I was going through the feelings of confusion and alienation most (if not all) young people feel in their early twenties.
More trivia: the title was inspired by a clue about Judy Garland from the board game Trivial Pursuit (does that even still exist?). I mention it at the end.
In 1985 (that’s forty years ago for those of you out of reach of a calculator), my band Robb Roy and I performed this song on Good Afternoon, Detroit, live from a club named Traxx on Detroit’s eastside. This must be the early days of satellite broadcasts (!), When my kids saw this when it reappeared some years ago, all they wanted to know was one thing: “Dad, why was your voice so high?” And why was my hair so black? I link it below.
I hope you like the song.
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