Album: All Things Must Pass
Year: 1970
A childhood memory, probably from when I was 11 years old: it’s before dawn, and we are driving from Fresno up to a soccer tournament in the Bay Area. We’re somewhere deep in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, having just turned onto the 152, heading west towards the 5.
At that point, we were getting out of the range my beloved 1300 KYNO — because of course, I’d already commandeered the car radio — but just as the station is fading into a choppy signal, “What is Life” comes on as the first rays of the morning sun come in through the back window of our station wagon.
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