It's on my bucket list to someday get to Australia and/or South Africa, where winter is in the summer and vice-versa. A kind of proof that everything is relative.
Last week, I started with the idea of picking two separate musicians - one for each of my opposites, and then veered off when I realized that I had my terms covered in one man: Jesse Colin Young. So, I began this Summer/Winter pair with the assumption that I would focus on a musician who again had them both covered. There are a number of options, but for this week, we go back to the 60's: The Doors.
Jim Morrison and The Doors may not be on heavy rotation in 2021, but they won't need much introduction, so a simple shout out and a reminder that they were responsible for ...
Wintertime Love. Jim Miller's review of the album laments (back in 1967) how the Doors had become a Morrison show, when band members such as Manzarek could "do some nice things". If you see a video not available, watch on YouTube, take the jump.
and Summer's Almost Gone
Not only do the two songs appear on the same album (Waiting For the Sun), but the tracks are back-to-back.
But this, too:
Donna Summer (who doesn't appear to have ever appeared here at SMM):
Johnny Winter (who has popped up a few times and I think that's Doug Brockie also on guitar):
purchase Waiting for the Sun
