The Year In Music: 27th February
Kentucky, February 27, 1971, Tom T. Hall (1971)
So that’s why people put dates in songs. It’s to try and fix them into the mundane surroundings of their moments of being made. It’s to place them in an archive of a life. It’s to secure them in a particular year of existence, a solid season, to weigh down these flighty, fleeting things within solid foundations.
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