verdant used in a song

photo: 1959 (click picture to enlarge)

Looks Like Rain - 1969

When I left home and moved into SF, aside from
working, went to a few concerts.

I first heard this album played on KSAN,
an underground station. Its a beautiful
album. For those who don't know, his first
big hit was actually sung by Kenny Rogers
and the First Edition: Just Dropped In To
See What Condition My Condition Was In.

He wrote American Trilogy that Elvis
made famous, and on and on.

A musician friend and I saw MN at the
Boarding House in SF and had a chance
to meet him back stage. Back then, if you
hung around and asked, most artists at
the time were happy to say hello to you.

If his singing didn't make you cry a little,
I don't think anything would. He was as
nice and gentle a human being you'd want
to meet. I saw him 2 more times, once a
few years later at the Great American Music Hall,
when he played with only a violin player. Last time
was at Chucks Cellar in the S Bay area.

As an older friend says, to make a long story long,
in a recent post @ Grrl + Dog she used the word
"verdant" and I thought I had only heard that
word used in a song by Van Morrison. But while
listening to VM all day at work on my iPod, I
realized it was Mickey Newbury I was
thinking of, and here's the song from an
old LP, as in record and wax.



Heaven Help The Child - 1973
from the album by same title