My dreams is fading down the railway line
Mick’s singing on the whole song is just sublime, but his voice breaking on “shiny clothes” and “radio” are almost otherworldly, some of the best work he’s ever done, and that continues on the second chorus, now accompanied by Paul Buckmaster’s strings.įor I am sleeping under strange, strange skies Let the airwaves flow, let the airwaves flow Going to warm my bones, going to warm my bones I am just living to be lying by your sideīut I’m just about a moonlight mile on down the roadĪnd then it drops back down for the second verse, Taylor doubling Mick’s guitar riff with his electric. The sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind “Moonlight Mile” perks up for its initial choruses, Watts switching up from pounding on the toms to something resembling a backbeat, Mick Taylor adding licks and riffs, and a double-tracked Mick sounding pretty fucking sincere.
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There’s a lot of debate on whether or not “head full of snow” is about another visit from sweet Cousin Cocaine or if it’s a metaphor for sadness, Mick dealing with the long boring stretches of travel in between the adrenaline rush of being on stage, which is getting less and less of an adrenaline rush as the tour wears on. With a head full of snow, with a head full of snowĭon’t the night pass slow? Don’t the nights pass slow? When the wind blows, and the rain feels cold The melody line very much follows that acoustic riff, and because it’s so percussive, even Charlie is following it as Mick sings the first verse near the top of his range. It’s an etherial, ever changing arrangement, starting with Mick playing his acoustic riff accompanied by horn player Jim Price on the piano. It was worked up in Mick’s living room by Mick, Charlie and Mick Taylor - Keith and Bill not around - with Mick’s weird acoustic guitar riff as the basis for the song, Charlie using his mallets like Mo Tucker and Mick Taylor adding enough ideas that he was always pissed he didn’t get a co-write. In any event, “Moonlight Mile” is an utterly sweeping and affecting “life on the road” song, which is one of the most crowded genres, to be sure, but it totally transcends just about every other song ever recorded in that genre.
After his remarkable success with Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day, the celebrated author whom the Washington Post praises as, “one of those brave new detective stylists who is not afraid of fooling around with the genre’s traditions,” returns to his roots-and the result, as always, is electrifying.Like “ Brown Sugar” and “ Sway,” “Moonlight Mile” was written completely by Mick Jagger, but unlike those two, Keith Richards is nowhere to be found on the recording, which I think is the first time that had ever happened. An explosive tale of vengeance and redemption-the brilliant sequel to Gone, Baby, Gone-Moonlight Mile returns Lehane’s unforgettable and deeply human detective duo to the mean streets of blue collar Boston to investigate the second disappearance of Amanda McCready, now sixteen years old. Moonlight Mile is the first Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro suspense novel in more than a decade from the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane. Lehane offers a bravura demonstration of how it’s done.” “ emerged from the whodunit ghetto as a broader and more substantial talent.When it comes to keeping readers exactly where he wants them, Mr.
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