Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Medicine Jar by Paul McCartney – ***

First released: 1975

Jimmy McCulloch was an interesting person. He seemed to have no other life than music and drugs as this song from Paul's "Venus and Mars" and "Wino Junko" from "Wings at the Speed of Sound" attests. It's sad, but true, and Jimmy died too soon in 1979 from an overdose, despite the lyric of this cautionary tale. A live version was performed and released on "Wings Over America" in 1976.

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