In My Own Dream
8-Tracks have to be one the clunkiest mediums ever invented for playing music but in 1969 they seemed wondrous. My college roommate had a white Plymouth Barracuda and a collection of ten or so 8-Tracks. I couldn’t get enough of Led Zeppelin’s first but the one that seemed absolutely perfect for our off campus outings was Paul Butterfield’s “In My Own Dream.”
Elvin Bishop played guitar on that album and I always figured it was him that sang the title song but Bob Mahoney straightened me out. It was Paul Butterfield singing and playing the slinky guitar part. Philip Wilson had left the Art Ensemble and he played drums on this album and a young David Sanborn played sax but the gorgeous sax solo on this track is credited to Gene Dinwiddie. In my own dream, what a place to be!
Paul Butterfield “In My Own Dream”
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Tags: Gene Dinwiddie, Paul Butterfield
July 24th, 2010 at 8:13 am
You got it exactly right about Led Zep. No band sounded better on 8 Track than them.
My HS graduation night was spent driving all over town in a Galaxie w/ Led Zep & Deep Purple blaring.