‘1969’ Is Good, Old Fashioned Rock n’ Roll

New Day is the latest album from John Corabi. It came out yesterday via Frontiers.

To support New Day, Corabi made a video for the album track “1969.”

Now, I’m a sucker for songs like this because I absolutely love Vietnam-era protest music. (“Draft Morning” is one of my favorite songs of all time. Only The Byrds (with David Crosby) could make a track that powerful and haunting!)

“1969” is a love letter to all the big moments of 1969, including Woodstock and Jimi Hendrix playing the hell out of his guitar. The video is filled with historical footage from the time, and yes, the lowlights of the period, like American boys dying for nothing in Vietnam, are there, too.

So much of “1969” just screams American rock n’ roll. The chorus, the guitars, the cadence. Corabi was just 10 during the summer of love. Definitely too young to understand a lot of what was politically happening, but definitely fortunate enough to see the moon landing as it happened. He turns 67 tomorrow, so celebrating with a new album is one hell of a way to start another year around the sun!