Nobody would ever think of Walter Becker as a sentimentalist, and I'm not either. But the two songs that bookend his first solo album, 11 Tracks of Whack, always get me:
"Surf and/or Die," an elegy for a friend who died in a hang-gliding accident:
And "Little Kawai," a wry love song to his then young son:
"Surf and/or Die," an elegy for a friend who died in a hang-gliding accident:
And "Little Kawai," a wry love song to his then young son:
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