In celebration of all things summer, Ten Dollar Recording Company mainstays Mariya May and Mo Douglas are firing up the grill again with another edition of The Hot Breath, their collaborative side project away from their other numerous releases and side projects. Marinated in puffs of paisley-tinted incense and adorned with the faded flowers of a summer of love unrequited, Roger McGuinn's 1973 folk strummer "I'm So Restless" gets the Cascadian once-over here, with far-flung Hot Breath alum Reed Burnam jet-setting in to rejoin the group from the other side of the Continental Divide (full disclosure - that jetsetter is this author, y'all). Together, the trio hammer out a straight-ahead and rootsy rendition of the Dylan-inspired original, replete with plenty of requisite bongo, hand clapping, harmonicizing, and ganjitating. And while the lyrical minutia concerning the song's protagonists might be a little more meaningful to the hipper contingent of your boomer elders, McGuinn's world-weary and tongue-in-cheek observations on the cultural exhortations of the 1960's from the vantage point of the resulting decade of excess and disarray still ring true 50 years later.

At its source, "I'm So Restless" is already about as good a hippie campfire song as they come, and The Hot Breath work it out commune style, such that you may just imagine yourself overhearing the lilting strains of a stoned campground jamboree wafting through the towering firs as you wait in line for the composting toilet. It seems Mr. L really did want you to yell, or rather shout along with your new earworm, as this feel-good singalong is quick to get stuck to (and in) your ears. As said in some movie at some point, somewhere - I'd buy that for a dollar (or ten). (Reed Burnam)

Reed Burnam: Vocals, Harmonica, Claps, Percussion, Production
Mariya May: Vocals, Percussion, Claps, Production, Cover Art
Mo Douglas: Acoustic Guitar, Claps, Percussion, Production

Written By Roger McGuinn & Jacques Levy

Cover Song License by Easy Song

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