DETAILS, FICTION AND GREATEST SONG EVER

On October 8th, 1963, even though on tour, Cooke and associates of his entourage have been arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace once they tried to register at a white motel — an incident reflected in the song’s third verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-aged son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates i

” “It’s hard to consider credit with the producing,” Van Zandt reported in 1984, “mainly because it arrived from out of the blue.”But because he wasn’t a skilled piano participant, he recorded the section at the manageable tempo of 40 beats for each moment, after which you can sped it up into the canonical home tempo of one hundred tw