Carousel Revisited
Carousel Revisited is one of the first songs I wrote that I felt was any good. The melody came to me in the spring of 1969 when The Brothers Four were headlining at the Princess Hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda. When I got back to Seattle my friend, Gary Drager, and I wrote a few different sets of lyrics before we were both satisfied. Drager and I remain good friends and continue to write songs from time to time.
The audio recording is from a 1973 recording at Sound 80 in Minneapolis produced by Bob Dylan’s brother, David Zimmerman, who was my manager at the time. A year later at the same studio using many of the same musicians David produced five tracks for Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks album.
The picture is of me riding a fire hydrant after safely parking my little red wagon. I want to imagine that I was capable back then of conjuring the sound of a calliope and imagining myself riding off on some great adventure without leaving the neighborhood. The same on a carousel pony…
