JERRY’S KIDS
One of the best songs on the Thomas Anderson album Moon Going Down – it was selected as a “Choice Cut” by Village Voice rock scribe Robert Christgau – is “Jerry’s Kids”. The reference is not to Jerry Lewis’s telethon children, but to the “Deadhead” followers of Jerry Garcia’s band the Grateful Dead. Besides showing his lively sense of humor, the song illustrates his expansive outlook on life: The song is full of expected praise for the idealistic Deadheads but does not dismiss the easy criticisms either – Thomas Anderson truly can see all points of view, unlike many of us who just say we do.
(November 2012)
