#11 Joe Walsh — Happy Ways (1973)

Introspection is a good thing. At any juncture it can be beneficial to evaluate your standing in life and determine if you are satifised with it. If you aren’t, you can strive to make changes, but we often assume there’s no more work to be done when we are. An innate function of human nature, especially of the mind, is that we’re never content. More than ever, we repetitively compost the good that comes our way and until we inevitably need more and more.

This works for some people, but so does letting everything go, and giving way to faith and fate for an unnoticed period time. Have you ever met someone that is seemingly immune to negativity, the kind of person that marches to the beat of their own drum entirely? This one is about them, and how we can get there, too.

Today, we’ve got Joe Walsh’s campy, yet profound, “Happy Ways,” from an album that still has people scratching their heads 50 years after its release. The title is a play on words from “the higher you get, the better you play:” The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get (1973).