62

 

I'm 62 today. I'm not quite sure how that happened but there it is in black and red.

As for posting some relevant music I am in that no man's land between Highway 61 and Route 66 and I've still got a two years to go before I can ask  will you still need me, will you still feed me?

Undeterred I typed 62 in the search box for my music folder and to my surprise three MP3's popped up.

There is actually a tune on there called Figures of '62 which comes from an album called The Debt Collection by a band called The Shortwave Set which The Swede kindly gifted to me last year in Edinburgh. The album, but not this song, has featured here before as part of Swedefest

The other two 62s appear to refer to track numbers from a couple of reasonably large boxsets which I have downloaded. I Stayed Away Too Longer is by the mighty Solomon Burke and is taken from Solomon Burke King of Rock'n'Soul - The Atlantic Recordings 1962-1968.

The final one Got to Be Somebody For Me is by Eddie Floyd and is taken from the 7th and final disc (Uncut Songs - Part 3)  on Written in Their Souls : The Stax Songwriters Demos. I will confess that I've still to get around to giving this one a listen.

There is every chance that these two boxsets will make a reappearance same time, same place next year!

The Shortwave Set - Figures of '62

Solomon Burke -I Stayed Away Too Long

Eddie Floyd - Got to be Somebody For Me