come down in time

Well yes, probably don’t mean shit to most everyone, but my favorite Elton John album, Tumbleweed Connection, was released 39 years ago on this day – you can’t get more unfashionable these days than to write about Elton John, to be sure. I love the comforting sound of these familiar country & western songs – yes, another one of those albums I turn to when I’m a little blue, if only to listen to "Come Down In Time" – and he would not record another album that sound quite as thematically cohesive like this. Tumbleweed Connection is also a huge inspiration for another much underrated album I love, Aimee Mann’s The Forgotten Arm. Elton and his lyrics writer Bernie Taupin are apparently these huge Band fans, and you can hear a lot of that influence on Tumbleweed Connection songs like “Country Comfort” and “My Father’s Gun”. I suppose if I was actually a music fan of my current age living in the sixties, the Band would be one of my favorite musicians around too; not so sure how I might take to Elton John though.