Category: A Dark Day

<p><span style="font-size: small;">It Was A Trip. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">This is a live version that I&nbsp;performed unplugged at a benefit concert&nbsp;to help aid&nbsp;the victims of the Katrina Hurricane that devastated New Orleans a few years ago. Just me, my harmonica, and acoustic guitar. I had lost this&nbsp;version in a computer crash but thankfully Mike Kohlgraf had it in his MP3 files. I asked and he sent it to me. Thanks Mike K!&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">I hadn't heard it in a long while so I thought I would post it up for those that like live recordings.&nbsp;I also have the studio version on my page.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Here's a little history on the songs origin: I wrote and recorded the song around 2000 but I had carried this lyrical thought since 1969. The true story, in short, is about a rock concert I attended in 1969. A kid I knew from school was shot and killed about 20 yards in front of me. He was just in the wrong spot at the wrong time. He was caught in the crossfire of rival motorcycle gangs and took a fatal shot to the head. It was supposed to be a fun day but it turned very dark quickly. So I did what story telling songwriters do, I captured&nbsp;that dark day in a song about the event.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Farrell Jackson</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p>