Every word in today’s subtitle applies to the Hoarusib River, shortly before it sometimes flows into the Atlantic.
Musical bonus
Green Rocky Road is a song variously described as “traditional”, or attributed to various songsters who were prominent during the 1960s American folk-blues “boom”, most especially Dave Van Ronk and Fred Neil.
It has nothing to do with Namibia, nor even with the actual American places mentioned in its “nonsense” lyric.
In that spirit, here is the most uncanny of all recorded visions – Fred Neil’s, from his second, eponymous album.
Released and recorded in 1966, the album also included a famous song that Fred Neil (1936-2001) definitely did write.
There’s nothing “wrong” with Nilsson’s cover of Everybody’s Talkin’ – the one used in the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack.
However, to those lucky enough to have heard Fred Neill’s own version, Nilsson’s sounds decidedly slight.
Fred’s original has less whine, more gravitas:
The next post in this series is the last to feature images taken from the bed of the Hoarusib.
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