Song of the Day 11/26: Darrell Scott, “The Day Before Thanksgiving”
Some years you just can’t get into the holiday spirit. Darrell Scott knows just how that feels, and he wrote a song about it that appeared on his 2010 album “A Crooked Road.” He uses his doubts about the Thanksgiving story to express doubts about his own. There’s not much chance of it turning up in a Hallmark holiday movie.
Scott is best known as a busy Nashville sideman and thoughtful songwriter, but he’s also an intensely emotional performer. He recorded this video at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville in 2010.
This song by Bob Franke has been recorded by many singers over the years. Although Thanksgiving is never mentioned in the lyrics, it reminds us of why we should be thankful.
The song “Thanksgiving Eve” was written by Bob Franke in 1978. It was released on Franke’s 1982 album “One Evening in Chicago”
Here’s a version by Stan Rogers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMAbb-oUo4k
And Stan’s brother Garnet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efdDMlCe-A
Bob Franke died last month. He was 78. As Christine Lavin said, “Bob Franke writes the kind of songs that will still be sung a hundred years from now.”