Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images Eric Clapton had only played with The Yardbirds and John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers when someone invoked the ... read more
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Not long before this song was released, I ran across the expression "silver spring" in a short story, used to describe a special, romantic spring. Since I read the book from which Stevie got the Rhiannon concept (Triad, by Mary Leader), I wondered if Stevie Nicks and I had the same taste in reading material. Anyway, I was working as an afternoon-drive disc jockey at the time and always looking for new tunes to intersperse with hits. This was one of them. I found a lot of truly good songs on B sides and as album cuts. The B-side tunes like this one helped set a mood....