Day 36: February 5: Only a Dream in Rio
"Nothing could be as sweet as it seems."
This seemed like the right choice to celebrate the first day of Carnival. The first time I saw James live he began to tell the story of how this song came to be. The amazingly rude Houston crowd were having their own conversations which led James to say something like "Well I can tell you don't care about this story, so here's the song." It was an odd moment for me. I remember feeling bad for him on stage realizing his vulnerability and feeling like the crowd had betrayed his trust. It's a pretty song and one with a melody and rhythm a little more complicated than what we usually get from him.
Here's a very different tone in a song about a very different Rio
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