V04-T13 Summer Single

.....If you missed track 12, it was in a draft that disappeared in the Blogger freeze a few days ago but recovered after the previous post published. You can find it by going back two posts or just checking the archive on the right.

Volume 4: "THE LITTLE BROWN ONES ARE THORAZINE, GEORGE", track 13

• 03:16 "SUMMER SINGLE" (John Wesley Harding, Steve Barton)
• performed by John Wesley Harding
• original source: CDEP PETT LEVELS Sire/Reprise 9 45331-2 (US) 1993
• and my source: the same

....."Wrong! It's not Elvis Costello. Admittedly, this reminded me of Costello's 'ANOTHER SIDE OF SUMMER', especially the line about 'a tunnel at the end of the light', but the truth is they're both tributes (sort of) to the Beach Boys. Even the EP title is a corruption of PET SOUNDS, Brian Wilson's lynch pin album."

.....When I wrote those notes in 1994, there was another level behind the EP title of which I was unaware. There's a much better story on this page of Harding's website:

wesleystace.com/album/pett-levels/

.....Four tracks left to this volume. See you Monday.