Lazy or Respectful?
TheAcsMan | Posted on Friday, December 9, 2011 at 7:32AM | tagged Bruce Springsteen, Dobie Gray, Focus Media, La-Z-Boy, Nashville, Old Reliables, Rock and Roll, covered, covered calls | Email Article | Share Article → 
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There was no reason for me to think that while on a cab ride going through the heart of Downtown Nashville on Tuesday, that Dobie Gray would breathe his last breathes on that same day and in that same city.
But that's exactly what happened on that cool and damp day as I went past the famous Ryman Auditorium and saw endless pedestrians with cowboy hats and guitar cases probably sharing the same hopes and dreams, but unlikely to ever find their way into the major leagues of obituary pages, The New York Times.
Other than introducing the song "The In Crowd", which was a bigger hit when Ramsey Lewis covered it, you may know him for his continually popular "Drift Away."
I don't really know him from any of his other works, but I found it poignant when after today's closing bell, where the market dropped an additional 100 points in the last 45 minutes, Bob Pisani on CNBC referred to the market as just having "drifted away."
Maybe Dobie was on his mind.
I've been a Bruce Springsteen fan for nearly 40 years and have seen him in concert a number of times and cities over that time. Along with others, I grieved when the Big Man died, but it was clear at a concert in Baltimore a few years ago that the body was a shell, while the talent and dirve were undying.
Dobie Gray just quietly drifted away.
I must have missed something in life. I grew up at a time when The Beatles were just beginning their "US Invasion" and can still remember their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.