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Music Reissues Weekly: American Baroque - Chamber Pop and Beyond 1967-1971

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Harpsichords, string quartets, woodwind and a summer-into-autumn melancholy

The descending refrain opening the song isn’t unusual but attention is instantly attracted as it’s played on a harpsichord. Equally instantly, an elegiac atmosphere is set. The voice, coming in just-short of the 10-second mark, is similarly yearning in tone. The song’s opening lyrics convey dislocation: “You and I travel to the beat of a different drum.”


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