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"Drift Away" is a song written by Mentor Williams in 1970 and first recorded by British singer Mike Berry on his 1972 album Drift Away. A version by John Henry Kurtz was released two months later in November 1972. [1] [2] Mentor Williams was a country songwriter, and John Henry Kurtz was an actor and swamp rock singer.
The song combines country and hip-hop elements, [1] opening with acoustic guitar strums and audio samples of people talking in a bar. Dustin Lynch recounts a romantic encounter in the opening verse and sings in the melody of "Drift Away" during the chorus, [2] in which he describes his ideal environment to spend time with a "country girl": a six-pack, some Brooks & Dunn and a Chevrolet.
"Drift Away" was released as a single on 16 March 2018. [6] A music video was released for the song in April, which featured a couple enjoying the end of summer at the beach. [ 4 ] The song was a commercial success, becoming the number one most performed song on New Zealand radio for 11 weeks, [ 7 ] and becoming double platinum certified.
His hit songs included "The 'In' Crowd" in 1965 and "Drift Away" (a cover of a song written by Mentor Williams). "Drift Away" was one of the biggest hits of 1973, has sold over one million copies, and remains a staple of radio airplay. [1] Dobie Gray was a member of the cast of "Hair" at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, CA from 1968 to 1969.
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Tim O'Brien was born on March 16, 1954, and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the youngest in a family of five children.At the age of 12, he first heard a Bob Dylan record, played by his older sister Mollie, afterwards deciding to take up music.
The band then set about recording some demos, though nothing was released right away. By November 1969, Canopy had signed a deal with MGM Records , whose parent company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , placed one of the songs recorded, "Moonshine (Friend Of Mine)", in a movie, The Moonshine War (1970), that featured Alan Alda .
Alternative variants are easy from this tuning, but because several chords inherently omit the lowest string, it may leave some chords relatively thin or incomplete with the top string missing (the D chord, for instance, must be fretted 5-4-3-2-3 to include F♯, the tone a major third above D). Baroque guitar standard tuning – a–D–g–b–e