Summer Breeze

from the LP Summer Breeze, Warner Bros Records, 1972



We always tend to enjoy an Indian Summer out here in Colorado, but this is getting ridiculous: another high above 90 degrees today, UGH! It could be worse though, so I’ll quit my belly-aching and look at the silver lining---I can still get away with blaring this guilty pleasure, the windswept harmonies of which never fail to make me feel better. This song is just so fucking pleasant & agreeable, come on people, you know it’s true!! No shame in my game. This fancy-free smash hit was brought to us care of Jim Seals & Dash Crofts, easy rock maestros from Texas who were both converts to the Bahá'í Faith, something which they both got progressively more involved with over time, eventually leading them to leave the music industry altogether (excepting for one brief reunion). Thankfully (you all know how corny I think organized religion is), there’s really no sense of it in this song. It might be because this track was featured in the stoner classic Dazed & Confused, but I always feel the urge to take a big, slow hit on some tasty green whenever this track comes on…