Dobie Gray

In 1973 I brought home an album by Dobie Gray entitled “Drift Away.”  I was living in Alameda with my ex-brother-in-law Bill along with Jim, a co-worker at the TRW warehouse in Oakland where I was working at the time.  

Jim, who was black, initially made fun of the album, but the three of us listened to the title song over and over.  Bill died a few years later, and I lost track of Jim, but when I read that Dobie Gray had died earlier this week, that whole period of my life came flooding back.

Here is the chorus of “Drift Away”

Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock n roll

And drift away

Give me the beat boys and free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock n roll

And drift away.

I’ll return to politics tomorrow.