Snow In Anselmo

Album: Hard Nose the Highway (1973)
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Songfacts®:

  • This lead-off track from Hard Nose the Highway features the Oakland Symphony Chamber Chorus. The surprising musical juxtapositions of the vocal arrangement with the folk-soul rhythm section mirror the song's tale of an unexpected snowfall event.
  • The song recounts the first snow to hit San Anselmo, California in over 30 years. Morrison recalled to Mojo magazine November 2012 that it was a literal event: "I was driving and it started to snow and a deer crossed by the list past the car and there was a drunk who looked like a madman looking for a fight. That's what I saw. That's the song."

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