Kansas City Playlist: Foghat Vs. Irish Songs

Tonight a dense fog has settled in over Kansas City and rendered this town silent and somewhat ominous. 

Accordingly . . .

Tonight's www.TonysKansasCity.com is dedicated to our weird late-year weather and some of our favorite tunes to help our late night denizens muddle through this this hazy shade of Winterr

Let's get started . . . 

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We always has a place in our heart since "Slow Ride" by Foghat was featured in the 1993 coming-of-age movie Dazed & Confused. However this quote from an original band member makes us enjoy the tune even more . . .“Of course, Slow Ride is about sex,” drummer Roger Earl once said. “All rock’n’roll songs are about sex, aren’t they? It’s either ‘I’ve just done it’ or ‘I’m thinking about doing it’ or ‘Thank you for letting me do it.’ It was inspired by women. We were very popular back then. It was the middle of the ’70s, the band was doing really well and we had more money than sense.”

Forgive us another Foghat song . . . Again, another review quote kind of explains our affinity for the group: 

"Foghat’s success is hard to explain in rational terms. They had no stars whose names your average rock fan still remembers, no utterly gorgeous faces for the girls to squeal at, specialized in a back to the basics (if not back to the Stone Age) blues and boogie that was most definitely not flash, declined to tawdry themselves up in outrageous clobber and climb aboard the Glam band wagon, and in general were not so different from your mates at the pub."

We didn't think we'd be able to fit in a Kate Bush song this year . . . But just for the bridge, here's her quote about "The Fog" and it's meaning: “It’s about trying to grow up. Growing up for most people is just trying to stop escaping, looking at things inside yourself rather than outside. But I’m not sure if people ever grow up properly. It’s a continual process, growing in a positive sense. ”

A folkloric interlude with a 90s spin . . . "Foggy Dew" is the name of several Irish ballads, and of an Irish lament. 

The most popular song of that name (written by Fr.Charles O'Neill) chronicles the Easter Rising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than for the British Empire, as so many young men were doing in World War I. In this clip, Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains offer their spin on the song . . .

Van Morrison's "Into The Mystic" is a classic song with an ethereal theme but we enjoy this fun fact regarding the iconic tune: "A BBC survey concluded that “Into the Mystic” is one of the most popular songs to be played in operating rooms. Surgeons apparently prefer the song due to its mellow, calming mood."

As always, thanks for reading this week and have a safe & fun Saturday night.