Episode 152: “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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'Thorns' - The Thorns
The thorns showed young that there was interesting stuff being done on the fringes of the folk music scene. He later said, one of my favourites was o susanna. They did this arrangement that was bizarre. It was in a minor key, which completely changed everything. So that idea spawned arrangements of all these other songs. For me, i did minor versions of them all. That was a certain squire's stage that never got recorded. We used to do all this stuff, a whole kind of music, folk rock. Wish there were tapes of those shows.
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