Day 128: May 8: Carolina in My Mind
"Ain't no doubt in no one's mind that love's the finest thing around."
One of my absolute favorites. This song has drastically evolved over James' career. On his eponymous album it had a bouncy bass line played by Paul McCartney which made the song feel oddly upbeat for a song about being homesick. In this early live version, it's extra mellow and mournful- almost too much so. Later, James finds a happy medium- both in the studio recording that appears on the greatest hits album (that most people are most familiar with) and the live versions to follow. It's a beautiful song.
Here's another song about wanting to get back home to North Carolina. The fellas in Old Crow Medicine Show came across an unreleased Bob Dylan song on a bootleg recording and wrote verses to it and it resulted in this beautiful piece of Americana. I also like that it references nearby Johnson City. Oh and the Darius Rucker version takes all the soul out of the song. This is the definitive version.
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