Cotton Field of Dreams

Cotton Field of Dreams
By Albert Bashor from the Earwig Music CD4964 Cotton Field of Dreams
Written by Albert A. Bashor
Co-published by Albert A. Bashor, Lynn Orman, Michael Robert Frank
Copyright 2010

The deeply moving title track comes from a far more serious lyrical place, chronicling the plight of an earlier era’s itinerant bluesmen. “That one’s dear to my heart,” says Bashor. “They’re in this cotton field. So they take this cotton field full of dreams that’s in their head from working all day and trying to transcend that mentally and put themselves in another place, and they start thinking, ‘Man, I know a few chords on that guitar. Maybe I’d get lucky. Maybe I could go to Chicago and be a star.’”