The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #114511   Message #2452269
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
28-Sep-08 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: ADD: October Song (Incredible String Band)
Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band)
The guest-heavy Mike Heron's Reputation album finds the remnants of the recently collapsed ISB (even a guesting Williamson) coming up with a classic slab of country rock, featuring a song about a dead dog and moving farewell to the ISB which contains the lines:

We weren't ready for the country, me and you,
just a couple of city boys, we couldn't even sing the blues.
And we couldn't even light a fire, or find the pole star...


Features Singing the Dolphin, later covered by Manfred Mann on the execrable Roaring Silence album. For more, images especially, see Here.