{"id":1879,"date":"2016-07-22T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2024-03-09T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T04:39:40","slug":"blues-on-my-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/blues-on-my-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues on My Ceiling (for Hazel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FhysQw0jsMQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By a quirk of memory, this urban, late night, heartsick song always makes me think of a sunny afternoon on a grassy hillside in Tuscany.<\/p>\n<p>Like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/miss-brown-to-you\/\">Miss Brown to You<\/a>,&#8221; <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1880 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Judy-Roderick.jpg?resize=240%2C242&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Judy-Roderick.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Judy-Roderick.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>this Fred Neil composition was one of the three songs Judy Roderick sang on a Newport Folk Festival collection, backed by John Hammond on harmonica. I loved her version, included it on my homemade cassette of contemporary folk songs, and had just figured out how to play it during the few days I spent in Annecy.<\/p>\n<p>From Annecy, I hitchhiked east and slept by the side of the road near Chamonix. I woke up wet and cold, stood for a couple of hours with my thumb out in a grey, steady drizzle, then got a ride through the Mont Blanc tunnel and emerged on the other side of the Alps, in warm, sunny Italy.<\/p>\n<p>I hitched down to Rome for a week or so, then up the coast to<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1881 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gabellino.jpg?resize=300%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"gabellino\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" \/> Grosseto and inland to Gabellino, the smallest town I&#8217;ve ever seen on a map. It was only on the map because it had been a way-station for travelers between the coast and Siena since the middle ages, and it was still just one building, an inn with a few bedrooms and a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>I was there to visit my ex-half-sister-in-law &#8212; she had been married to my half-brother Dave, or actually was still married to him, but hadn&#8217;t seen him in over a dozen years &#8212; who was living on a mountaintop a few kilometers from Gabellino in a small stone house with no electricity, raising sheep and chickens. Her postal address was:<br \/>\nHazel<br \/>\nGabellino<br \/>\nGrosseto<br \/>\nITALY<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1883 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dave-and-Hazel-1.jpg?resize=200%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"243\" \/>Someone pointed me in the right direction and I walked up to her house and she was out back feeding the chickens. A while later we were sitting on a grassy hillside with a bottle of local wine and I was playing songs for her. This was one of them and she particularly liked it, and since I never played it much after that, it always reminds me of that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Which, I grant, is not much of a story&#8230; but a few years later Hazel came back to the United States and when I booked my first cross-country tour she came along for the ride, and we had so much fun that she rode along on each tour I did after that, twice a year for the next three years. I drove, and she smoked endless cigarettes, cooked incredible meals, and kept annotated set-lists of every show with stars next to the songs she liked and instructions on what to do differently on the ones she didn&#8217;t. By the end she was living in California and I&#8217;d drive out there on my own, pick her up, and we&#8217;d head up to Vancouver, east through Montana, eventually end up in Boston, and she&#8217;d catch a train back to the West Coast. 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