I Wish I Didn't Dream

Inspired by the W.D. series of paintings by artist M P Landis. “Cease to Do Evil” is adapted from the poem by Denis McCarthy, in Irish Legends and Lyrics, published by McGlashan & Gill in Dublin, 1858. The “Shenandoah” verse is adapted from a re-write of “Oh Shenandoah” written and sung by Robert Horton, who played a character in a western (“A Man Called Shenandoah”) that aired one season, 1965-1966. In the story, Shenandoah is a stranger who has amnesia; the town doctor gives him the name, telling him that it means, “Land of Silence.”Horton sang it on a record on Columbia in 1965. Wikipedia says the only cover of this rewrite of Shenandoah was by The Gang, in 1977, on Trash Records (T0003). This music was improvised live in the studio. There are no overdubs.