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The Long Drive Home

from Word by Mad Dog Friedman

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A tribute to my inspiration on harmonica, Sugar Blue.

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The pavement is not real.
The stars, like salt
spilled on black velvet,
show no sign of life,
stare like glass eyes from space.

Sugar Blue whines
and growls his hollow ache,
moans his hot harmonica wind
through brass and plastic,
charges the vacant night with longing.

Everyone who
ever plays, stretches
for that note
missing from the chord
that binds us.

Sugar digs it out, slams it
down on the rough road
like black ice, scrapes
it against raw face
like sandpaper.

Inside the wrenching bend
cowers a persistent yearning,
a burning loneliness that drives
each fragile breath
we pass from lung to lung.

We roll alone down this road
of night that never ends,
tumble like a cage of seed and thorn,
from deep within our pain
a stout and solitary joy begins.

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from Word, released July 28, 2021

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Mad Dog Friedman | Mad Dog Blues | Peddlers of Joy Lafayette, Colorado

Mad Dog writes from the moment and sings from his heart. His influences include sources as divergent as William Butler Yeats & the delta blues. His songwriting is sincere, simple & often humorous. He has recorded many solo & collaborative projects featuring his spontaneous compositions on harmonica, Native American flute & Theremin. He is also the founder of Mad Dog Blues & The Astral Project. ... more

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