{"id":4299,"date":"2020-04-11T07:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2022-04-03T20:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T00:15:26","slug":"blood-red-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/blood-red-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Red Moon (Dave Van Ronk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blood Red Moon (Dave Van Ronk)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1csKoJe5z1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was the title song of Dave&#8217;s <em>Going Back to Brooklyn <\/em>LP and inspired the cover image, a blood red moon rising over the Brooklyn Bridge, worked in stained glass by Dave&#8217;s wife, Andrea. As I <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2551\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Going-Back-to-Brooklyn.jpg?resize=235%2C235&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\" \/>explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/losers\/\">an earlier post<\/a>, his original title for that album was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/losers\/\">Losers<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0 but that seemed kind of negative for his first and only collection of original songwriting, so we went for this.<\/p>\n<p>Dave explained his creative process in the liner notes:<\/p>\n<p><em>This was supposed to be a serious, even scary song, \u00e0 la Robert Johnson. I got a verse or two off in this manner and started to giggle&#8230; rewrite time. 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Neither of them would have imagined that could happen, and I&#8217;m guessing Dave would have been angry about it &#8212; not just because no one under fifty will think the last line of this song is funny, but that wouldn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the LP was supposed to have two photos on the back, one of Dave imitating a gargoyle on the turret of the cathedral of <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4309 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dave-and-mother.jpg?resize=215%2C288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"288\" \/>Notre Dame in Paris, and the other of him as a kid in Brooklyn. 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