Have you ever found an obscure piece of music that hits you just right?

[LuckyCharms]

For me, it's Jerry Garcia's guitar improvisation between about the 4:00 minute mark to the 6:25 mark (it's the second guitar break) in the below video. It's so...pretty, comforting, happy, emotional.

This was Jerry's favorite song to sing and play. This particular part in the video was never played the same way again that I can find, as the Grateful Dead was known for never playing a song the same way twice, and that was part of their appeal. They just played the song as they felt it at the time. Sometimes it sucked, but most of the time, it was poignant and compelling.

People either love that kind of music, or they don't. I do, and that segment never fails to make me feel good. Some will hear what I'm talking about, and some won't.

As Miles Davis said, and I'm paraphrasing: The Grateful Dead is a jazz band that plays rock music.

I've seen this band too many times to count, and met Jerry in 1978. I miss him. He gave me some the the happiest times of my life.

Video followed by lyrics.

Julie catch a rabbit by his hair
Come back step, like to walk on air
Get back home where you belong
and don't you run off no more

Don't hang your head let the two-time roll
Grass shack nailed to a pine wood floor
Ask the time? Baby I don't know
Come back later, we'll let it show

And I say row, Jimmy row
Gonna get there?
I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down, row, row, row
row, row

Here's my half a dollar if you dare
double twist when you hit the air
Look at Julie down below
the levee doin the do-pas-o

And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there?
I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down, row, row, row
row, row

Broken heart don't feel so bad
Ain't got half a what you thought you had
Rock your baby to and fro
Not too fast and not too slow

And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there?
I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down, row, row, row
row, row

That's the way it's been in town
ever since they tore the juke box down
Two-bit piece don't buy no more
not so much as it done before
And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there?
I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down, row, row, row
row, row

[NNadir]

1. Beneath An Evening Sky.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Fun fact:

Music can assist in pain relief.

Also check out Super Joy by Paul Pearsall.

Book overview
Offers an new path to healing and wellness by activating the "joy response", the key to maintaining a spiritual high, and by building optimism, enthusiasm and the natural desire to feel good

❤️

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Yes, but I don't want to have an ear worm all day long afterwards! Ha ha heh...it takes me days later to finally clear

the tune out of my head!

[Cartoonist]

4. Time Is Tight

By Booker T.
I heard it in a film clip long after its release. I had to track it down. To this day, it still has the greatest groove I ever heard.

[Elessar Zappa]

5. That's a nice piece of music!

I’ve recently re-discovered “Watermelon in Easter Hay” by Frank Zappa, it’s a haunting, brilliant piece.

[Pluvious]

13. It's a work of pure genius...

In fact the whole double album is a masterpiece
(I even got to see the live play!)

In case you've not yet seen live tribute performance of Easter Hay,
his gifted us with a beautiful performance of it.

Gave me chills - the emotion he pours into this is palpable...

[LuckyCharms]

14. This is beautiful. Goosebumps.

[XanaDUer2]

6. Kick

[Ptah]

7. Jo Serrpaare - You're Changing Like the Seasons

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. I don't know if it counts as 'obscure'...

I consider this one of the most beautiful tunes I have ever heard. I sing it every time I hear it.

[LogDog75]

9. Om Sarve

I first heard this song on TV on The Music Channel while I was reading. Every time I hear it I stop what I'm reading and listen to it. The singer, Tina Malia, sings a song from Indian from a sanskrit phrase. the meaning of the words are:

Om May all be happy, may all be free from illness
May all see what is auspicious, may no-one suffer
Om Peace Peace Peace

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Forever Autumn

I first heard it on WPLJ (NYC) in 1980 and loved it immediately.

Unfortunately, the station didn't announce the song or the artist.

I finally found it in a bazaar on W.4th Street in Greenwich Village, a two-record album of War of the Worlds. And yes, that's Richard Burton narrating.

It's been almost 45 years and I still adore this song.

[Wonder Why]

11. In answer to your question, no.

[Aristus]

12. Richard Wagner's Kinder Katekismus- The Children's Catechism.

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Just two minutes long. This, from a guy who wrote four-hour-long operas. It’s impossible to convey the impact of this brief boys-choir piece unless you are familiar with Wagner’s Ring Cycle of four interconnected operas.

It took Wagner twenty -four years to complete all four operas of the entire piece. After the third opera, he got so tired of composing it that he stuck it in a drawer for five years. In those five years, he wrote two completely unrelated operas, both of which are considered masterpieces.

On the day he finally finished the last notes of the last opera, the emotional let-down was so overwhelming that he picked a stupid fight with his wife, who burst into tears.

Wagner wrote this little piece as an apology, and had their children sing it to her on Christmas morning. The coda of the piece is the final theme he wrote for the Ring Cycle on the day of the fight, in full. It’s sweet and beautiful even if you’re not familiar with Wagner’s Ring. If you are, it will bring you to tears.