Song 780: Seven weeks after my previous personal friend song post, this week's melodic lift Always Have A Song to Sing comes from one of my New Brunswick buddies Spook Handy, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. When I first moved from California to Brooklyn in September of 1988, I initially focused on performance spots in NYC, but fairly soon, I found out about folkie gatherings in other nearby places, and I started regularly going to open mics held in a New Brunswick night club that got managed by a Handy guy. I appreciated his tunes as much as he liked mine, and we kept in touch for years. However, after I waved good-bye to Highland Park and headed for upstate NY, I didn't maintain connections with some friends there. It did surprise me, and make me smile, when I got a phone call from Spook a few months ago. After that conversation, I realized that I hadn't yet included him in my playlist, so I decided to feature him at the next appropriate time. When I looked at his YouTube video collection, the title here caught my eye, even though I hadn't heard it before, and giving it a few listens, it really moved me, because all of us singer/songwriter types always, always, always have a song to sing.
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