My favorite Scandinavian American musician is Jorma Kaukonen, here´s a version of “Good Shepherd” recorded live in 1964 in San Jose, many years before he performed it with the Airplane on the Volunteers LP. – Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975
Capt. Spaulding, tending to overgrowth in the garden of love, declares: “This is simply a decent-to-good song that could use some pruning — it’s too long by at least a minute — and which expresses a sociological statement of some sort with all the classic earnestness of youth. That is to say, it’s by turns …