Nostalgia kicked in while listening to Johnny Cougar explain to Joe Rogan how a drum machine’s battle rattle sound made it into his classic “Jack & Diane.”
“Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County? Down by the Green River where Paradise lay Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away.”
My dad used to sing the chorus of John Prine’s “Paradise” which I never knew where it came from until I listened to Prine’s full catalog.
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