4/25/2023 0 Comments Doug clifford magic windowAnd that’s probably the second most written about subject, “the dream”. In that case, it’s hanging onto love, but also hanging on to your dreams. HMS: My personal favorite, though I probably shouldn’t tell you that I have a favorite, is “Don’t Let Go”.ĭC: That’s a great one. HMS: It just reminded me of something like Dante’s Inferno because you’re going through all these experiences of love, the good, the bad, and then the question: what is the real thing?ĭC: So many songs have been written about it that it’s not just a single word, but it’s a montage of things. It’s the full range of possibilities here in thoughts about love on the album.ĭoug Clifford: You’re very perceptive. And as you say, there are actions you have to take and express that real love. Then you have “Hungry For Your Love”, which is more animalistic and human.īut then you kind of break through that, and you get to songs like “Just Another Girl”, “Falling For You”, “You Mean So Much To Me”, and those speak much more to real relationships that someone has managed to get into, and trying to figure out how they will pan out. Then we have “Somebody Love Me Tonight”, which is a bit earthy, and gritty, and darker. I feel like “Don’t Leave Me Alone Tonight” is a kind of spiritual or heavenly love. Hannah Means-Shannon: I don’t know if you intended it, but for me, looking at these love songs, I saw a development. In the first part of our conversation with Doug Clifford, we talked about his rediscovery of the tracks and his work on bringing them to light, and in the final portion of that interview below, we break out into a discussion of specific songs on Magic Window and hear some fabulous tales from Clifford about how he learned to play the drums with limited resources as a young person. Clifford rediscovered them while cleaning out his garage, not just due to COVID isolation, but also because he's coming off 25 years of touring with Creedence Clearwater Revisited and finally taking stock of other musical projects.įans may recall that Clifford has worked on solo recordings off and on over the years, including the Cosmo album released in 1972, which included 8 original tracks, but that won't really prepare you for the range and appeal of Magic Window, which is predominantly concerned with love songs, taking in the many angles of relationships and the pursuit of meaningful connections. The tracks were part of a series of recordings laid down at Clifford's Lake Tahoe studio in 1985 with engineer/guitarist Russell DaShiell (Norman Greenbaum, Crowfoot), bassist Chris Solberg (Santana, Chris Isaak) and rhythm guitarist Rob Polomsky. Creedence Clearwater Revivalfounding member and of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer Doug "Cosmo" Cliffordhas released a solo album excavated from the vaults of music history, dusted off, slightly tweaked, and surprisingly fresh and relevant, with Magic Window.
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