Further On Up the Road– At West End Gallery
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
–Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Short and sweet this morning. Just a painting, a short passage from Oscar Wilde, and a song to round out this week’s Sunday Morning Music.
It all seems to nest together well.
The song is Colour My World from Chicago in 1970. Though it doesn’t have the power of the band’s normal horn section or the epically underrated guitar licks of Terry Kath, who sings lead here, and was only released as the B-side for two singles, and has only one single, short verse, the song had great impact with its quiet moodiness and haunting flute solo. Frank Sinatra is reported to have wanted to record it but wanted band member James Pankow, who wrote the song, to add a verse but Pankow and the band declined the offer.
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There is a serenity in your painting, Further On Up the Road and perhaps you were thinking a veil was being lifted on it (as mentioned in the quote). The 1945 film version of the Picture of Dorian Gray was one of my favourites when growing up (oddly drawn sometimes to thrillers like it and Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein) and your choice of music also took me back to my youth as well so again, thank you … but I’d have to rename your painting because of these as ‘A look back down the road’.