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Desert Wind

images-1I wrote this song about Israel and the Negev desert after my first visit there. It’s a nice song to play along with if you have such inclinations (I mean inclinations to play along, sing along, hum along, tap your feet along kinds of inclinations). I myself enjoy playing it (an unfortunate lilting, somewhat musical inclination, a weakness for rhyme inclination, a slippery slope of snappy tunes sort of inclination). In any case, Desert Wind is on my CD titled Up in the Bronx and Down in LA. My Up in the Bronx novel, written before I recorded the songs in 2011, is, despite all my brave efforts, quite autobiographical. So that’s why I recorded the song for the CD. Huh? See the Up in the Bronx page in the header for more info about the book and also about the soundtrack CD. I was playing the song again the other day, so for your listening pleasure (I hope), and also to perhaps interest you in taking a look at the book…

 And to give you someting a little snappier to listen to I’ve addd Lovesick Blues if you’re brave enough to click on it

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Hey! There's Up in the Bronx on the shelves at the Los Angeles Public library
Hey! There’s Up in the Bronx on the shelves at the Los Angeles Public library

Desert Wind

I wrote this one over thirty years ago. I still like to play it. It’s called Desert Wind and I wrote it after the first time I visited Israel.

One day I took a walk through the mountains in my heart

I heard the sound of the desert wind

Calling, calling home to me

I recorded this song on the Up in the Bronx and Down in LA CD, the one that accompanies the celebrated Up in the Bronx novel.