What are you listening to in 2026 ?

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

I've always known the name of the band but I realize today that I don't even know what songs they are famous for.

It turns out, I've heard their songs in my life time but never knew it was them.

The video should be an entire playlist called, Twenty Years Of Dirt:

Mr Bojangles
Rippling Waters
An American Dream
Make A Little magic
Fire In The Sky
Dance Little Jean
Long Hard Road
High Horse
Partners, Brothers and Friends

 

According to drummer Ron Bushy, organist-vocalist Doug Ingle wrote the song one evening while drinking an entire gallon of Red Mountain wine. When the inebriated Ingle then played the song for Bushy, who wrote down the lyrics for him, he was slurring his words so badly that what was supposed to be "in the Garden of Eden" was interpreted by Bushy as "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".​



In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)​

Drum Cover by Sina​

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I'm daydreaming on the bridge, I see the trees in the water, I see the sky, and a moment later I feel the stares in my back of all the people standing there asking me sternly: Did you really have to risk that? Why did you do such a thing to her? I know, it's my fault that I had to marry you too soon, but nature didn't have the patience for building a comfortable nest.

It was such a mild night in May, but try explaining that to all those ladies and gentlemen who were luckier than us. They say to me: you're a rag, you're the disgrace of the family, of our proper abode. Think of us, and of God too. And then they pull a face as if I've eaten garlic. No Christian wants to know a guy like that; he offends their sense of decency. On Sundays, people listen to the Word and sing psalms aloud together.

But I stand outside like the perpetrator of a negative murder. Forgiveness and tolerance, yes, those are good for liberals. My family has been completely freed from those unchristian ailments. A wise uncle is a lawyer and manages our marital affairs. A shed with a view of the rooftops because otherwise we would be on the street.

The lady next door, who sees everything, sits behind the window and wrings her hands. She cries, hurt: it's a disgrace, because you're going to be a mother, not her. If I were your child, my dear, I'd rather not be born, I'd never be heard from again, I'd stay where I was. Because the family, my dear girl, is so embarrassed by the situation. We're just against the clique, because they did get married on time.
 

The neighborhood is being redeveloped and the houses are being demolished,
and people are standing there watching and saying: see that?
There's still a whole family living in that old, run-down house.
Imagine, such a damp house, well, what do they see in it?

Look, that couple is barely twenty and they already have a child,
well, they probably think they can live off the wind.
And then they nod their heads in satisfaction and quickly go home,
to their jobs and their cars and the television at home.

These were poor houses, and they lived clandestinely.
They had no light there, and no running water either,
but they were happy there with four walls and a roof.
Furthermore, they didn't have any luxury or expensive furniture.

But the house has to be demolished because a large office is being built,
the family is now on the street, but hey, money always comes first.
And you can easily say that in your own beautiful house,
with your job and your car, by the television at home. Even though they were now homeless, they had learned one thing:
to be able to live normally, you first have to register.

First, a house, and only then get married, so for a few years you just have to
sit there, kindly and resignedly, watching each other.
When you're tired of waiting and a child does arrive,
you have to figure out how to live.
Because people cry shame, and they stay safely home
and discuss the problems on TV.
And then the family moves on to another run-down neighborhood,
and after a while, they're kicked out of there too.

And if you find yourself back on the street with your furniture and your child,
complaining won't help much.
Because if you point out the situation to those officials,
they say: I'm sorry, you're at the bottom of the list.
And then they think contentedly about their own nice house,
about their job, their car, and the television at home.
 
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