“Bertha” has long suffered from what now seems to be a piece of disinformation, which might fall into the “never trust a prankster” category. “Bertha” captures yet another of Hunter’s loveable but somehow downtrodden or down-and-out characters, defiant (“why don’t you arrest me?”) and bumbling (“ran smack into a tree…”) within the space of a song. I love the idea that someday, maybe, they might be recorded in a studio setting as a real “album” of songs-remember that concept? This set of songs deepens and further explores the “old, weird America” of many of the songs from Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty. I’m referring to the post- American Beauty, pre- Wake of the Flood songs that made up a good part of the two live albums, Skull and Roses (for want of a more useable title…) and Europe ’72. I’ve harped on this before, but I think, because it’s a favorite concept of mine, that it merits a brief re-cap. “Bertha” is another in the group of songs that I like to think of as the unrecorded studio album-songs that never got the studio treatment. But “Bertha” is so essential, so often played, and so joyously received-at least at every show I was at-that I feel remiss. “Bertha.” How is it that it took me 90 weeks to get to “Bertha”? I know.I have a long ways to go before the storehouse of tunes is empty. (I’ll consider requests for particular songs-just private message me!)
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Therefore, the best part, I would hope, would not be anything in particular that I might have to say, but rather, the conversation that may happen via the comments over the course of time-and since all the posts will stay up, you can feel free to weigh in any time on any of the songs! With Grateful Dead lyrics, there’s always a new and different take on what they bring up for each listener, it seems.
Here’s the plan-each week, I will blog about a different song, focusing, usually, on the lyrics, but also on some other aspects of the song, including its overall impact-a truly subjective thing.
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