I love the smoothness of this song, the way it glides along as the singer’s thoughts unwind in a late night car ride. The verse about their first night captures that passion, lust, desire that leads to love:
I felt your skin, I felt the heat
As you pulled me out into the street
And you kissed me there till I was weak
‘Cause I asked you to
And later on your kitchen floor
Two flights above the grocery store
I felt things I never felt before and I still do
It is a beautiful love song.
Kaplansky followed a staggered path in her musical career. She came to New York in the late 70’s from Chicago and hooked up with the Village folk scene. While she had some success, by the early 80’s, she changed direction and pursued a degree and ultimately a career as a psychologist. She turned down opportunities to record as she set up her private practice.
But the music kept tugging at her sleeve and in the early 1990’s, she reconnected with friend Shawn Colvin to record an album and rejoin the Fast Folk scene. This song comes from an album by the same name released in 1999.
Kaplansky still performs, still records and often connects with folkie friends Richard Shindell, John Gorka and Shawn Colvin.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/d9Mo1U-s7TY?si=3iar1-l5sU_Txgip
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