In his weird and luscious signature song, Gary Wright, who died on Monday at age 80, captured a vision of tomorrow haunted by the memory of yesterday.
“browsing through it one night and I came across this line that said ‘When at night my mind weaves dreams.’ And I opened my songwriting journal and I wrote down the words ‘dream weaver.’”Wright demoed the songs from the “Dream Weaver” LP on an array of then-novel electronic instruments, which he’d gotten interested in shortly before leaving Spooky Tooth. When he played the demos for his label, Warner Bros.
Yet “Dream Weaver” retains a human touch that keeps the song on Earth despite its spacey ambience. “Gary was a soulful cat, and it’s a very soulful record,” Foster said. Keltner gently swings the song’s rhythm, which adds a hint of blue-eyed soul; Wright’s vocal is airy but impassioned — a little frayed at the edges, as though he knows the dream is destined to end.
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