Blessings of the Day (Rod McKuen) Performed by In Gowan Ring

“I recorded this song in the middle of the night on the day in which a friend wrote to tell me that Rod McKuen had died. I’d returned some days earlier from America, still haggard with an obstinate jetlag that left me lingering on long winter walks in the early AM... --This night I was exploring a new path and found myself in the Kleinzschocher graveyard, strolling past the graves, sitting on the benches with Rod’s late era album “After Midnight“ on repeat in my ea